It is not necessary to repeat here what has been said about the value of an Oxford education from the broader point of view of the Oxford life sketched in a previous chapter. Add to the many opportunities for broad culture and social training the opportunity of meeting Rhodes Scholars from all parts of the British Empire, the United States, and Germany. The friendships formed will prove not the least of the many opportunities and the pleasant experiences of the three years at Oxford. The student, in whatever sphere his interests lie, will find golden opportunities, not so much for getting the most out of life, but for putting the most into it, and enriching it, with wise experience, pleasant memories, and high ideals. ‘The embryo doctor, lawyer, journalist, clergyman, politician, who aims at the highest can by the help of this bequest spend three additional years, unoppressed by anxious care, in laying broadly and firmly the intellectual basis on which his professional work is to be done.’ For the benefit of those who are thinking of entering the public service of their country, the words of Mr. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, may be quoted here:—‘We must educate hundreds of our scholars and politicians in studies of Jurisprudence and International Law; we must have a corps of trained specialists who know the minute details of each great nation’s past history and present achievements—Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, and the Scandinavian countries. The Rhodes bequest is the most timely of gifts for higher education, because it gives opportunity to begin this education of that class of our population which will furnish our consulates, our home offices, and our embassies with attachés. Out of the most successful of these will come by and by our foreign ministers and our home experts in diplomacy. ‘England is the best place in which to begin this work. The excellence of the University of Oxford is without doubt the training of the ready gentleman who cannot be pushed off his feet by an attack upon the weaknesses of his personality. His training at Oxford gives him that secure self-possession and self-respect which commands the respect of his fellows. Our American students need have no fear that they will lose their nationality at Oxford, for they will find the English ideal of a gentleman exactly fitted for Anglo-Saxons everywhere. The more perfectly they accept its training in this regard the more ready they will be for the great work of extending our American influence in the councils of the world.’