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1950
The honor: John Brademas — born in Mishawaka on 2 March 1927, the son of a Greek immigrant restaurateur, and later this district's congressman for twenty-two years and the president of New York University — was a Rhodes Scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford. The Rhodes Trust's scholars record, as carried in the Trust's verified roll of scholars, places him in the class of 1950, and New York University's own archival finding aid for his papers states the span plainly: "From 1950 to 1953, he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University," taking the Doctor of Philosophy in Social Studies there after his Harvard degree of 1949. The Rhodes Scholarship is the oldest international scholarship in the world and the most selective honor a young American scholar of his generation could win; it is the highest academic honor on this city's ledger, and it enters at full birth strength — Brademas was not a man who passed through Mishawaka but one the city produced, educated in its schools, and sent east. Brasenose keeps his name on its own ground: the college's Middle Common Room is the Brademas Room. His congressional and university career stands whole in the People section of this history; the ledger entry is the scholarship, its years, and the tie.
A dating note: Some secondary profiles date the scholarship from 1949, the year of his Harvard graduation. The ledger follows the two records closest to the grantor — the Rhodes scholars roll (1950) and the university archive that holds his papers (1950–1953) — and prints 1950, with the variant noted rather than smoothed over.
Sources:
- The Rhodes Trust, roll of Rhodes Scholars (the scholars database as reproduced in the verified scholars list) — John Brademas, class of 1950, Brasenose College.
- New York University Archives, John Brademas Papers, biographical note and finding aid — born Mishawaka 2 March 1927; "From 1950 to 1953, he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University"; D.Phil. in Social Studies.
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress — Brademas of Mishawaka, Harvard 1949, the congressional service 1959–1981.
- Brasenose College, Oxford — the Brademas Room, the college's Middle Common Room named for its scholar.