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With this funding Rhodes University College was founded by an act of parliament on 31 May 1904. [8] University education in the Eastern Cape began in the college departments of four schools: St. Andrew's College; Gill College, Somerset East; Graaff-Reinet College; and the Grey Institute in Port Elizabeth.
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In 1904 Rhodes University College was established and its first four professors appointed from the staff of St. Andrew's College. [5] One of these was Matthews, who became professor of mathematics and chairman of the university senate. [6] Matthews retired from Rhodes University in 1910 and died in the Cape Province in 1911.
The early origins of Rhodes can be traced to the mid-1830s and the establishment of the all-male Montgomery Academy on the outskirts of Clarksville, Tennessee. [4] The city's flourishing tobacco market and profitable river port made Clarksville one of the fastest-growing cities in the then-western United States and quickly led to calls to turn the modest "log college" into a proper university. [4]
Rhodes University Library housed the Thomas Pringle Collection, which later formed the National English Literary Museum, colloquially known as NELM.Launched in 1972 at the instigation of Professor Guy Butler, Karin de Jager [7] recalls that the "fledgling Thomas Pringle Collection was housed in the only available open space in the Rhodes Library – for unknown reasons dubbed The Priest’s Hole.
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The Africa Media Matrix is the headquarters of Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Construction of the building began in 2001 at a cost of R24 million through a grant from the Ford Foundation and was completed in 2006. [1]