Activities of Rhodes Scholarship Trust to Have Center on Wadham College Grounds -- Not for Undergraduate Use

The Rhodes Scholarship Trusiees are erecting a large building to be known as Rhodes House, at Oxford University, as a center for the activities and influences of the Trust, according to information recently received here from Oxford, England. The new structure has a three-fold purpose. It will, in the first place, provide a central hall for the annual dinners which are given in accordance with Cecil Rhodes will. A library with shelf space for 60,000 volumes will also be installed in the building to relieve the congestion in Bodleian Library. Finally, Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering place for former Rhodes' Scholars returning in after years.

Rhodes' House is in no sense a rendezvous for undergraduate Rhodes Scholars, according to a statement made by Sir Otto Bolt; Senior Truston of the Fund. The spirit of the Rhodes bequest demands that the Scholars mingle with other men in their own colleges.

The architect of the new building is Herbert Baker, who has attained eminence as the architect of the Secretariat at Delphi and the Winchester War Memorial cloisters. Baker planned Cecil Rhodes' house at Grotte Schuur, and was the architect of the Rhodes Memorial on Table Mountain.

The site of Rhodes House is a two acre portion of the grounds of Wadham College, which has been acquired from the College. The building will be directly north of Wadham and opposite the gardens of St. Johns'.

The Great Hall will serve for lectures by distinguished public men and other gatherings in harmony with purposes of the Trust. Adjoining the Hall will be a room for the recording of the names of Rhodes Scholars deemed worthy of commemoration by reason of their performance of public duty. Rhodes Scholars who died in the World War will be the first group so memorialized. Lord Milner, one of the original Trustees, will have a particular memorial. The east wing is to contain the house and office of the Oxford Secretary of the Trust.

As a practical contribution to the University, a library room is to be provided for the relief of congestion in the Bodleian Library. The additional space will not only take care of the Bodleian over flow, but will be used to supplement the present collection with books published in America and the Dominions. The new library will be distinctively a library of the literature of the British Commonwealth and the United States. The special Parkin Library, in memory of the late Sir George Parkin, will form a part of this collection.

The last function of Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering place for old Rhodes Scholars' returning in after years. The plans contemplate ultimately chambers in which these visitors may be housed whenever in Oxford