Rhodes House
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Rhodes House is part of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on the south of South Parks Road in central Oxford. The building was built in memory of Cecil Rhodes, an alumnus of the University and a major benefactor. The building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker in a colonial style and was completed in 1928.
The Rhodes Trust is based at Rhodes House. Rhodes Scholars, many from the United States, have been funded to attend Oxford University since 1902. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar during his time at Oxford.
The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House (aka the Rhodes House Library) is part of the main Bodleian Library in Oxford.
During 1931, Albert Einstein delivered a series of three lectures at Rhodes House. Edmund Bowen, a chemistry don at the University, saved the blackboard used in the second lecture (on 16 May). This can still be seen at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, formally presented by Sir Francis Wylie, the Warden of Rhodes House at the time.
In the 1970s, the Ugly Rumours and the Oxcentrics played at Rhodes House.
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Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies] at Rhodes House
