LC control no. | n 80050412 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Rhodes University |
Variant(s) | Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Rhodes University College University of South Africa. Rhodes University College |
Beginning date | 1904 |
Associated country | South Africa |
Located | Grahamstown (South Africa) |
Special note | The following heading for the earlier name is a valid AACR 2 heading: Rhodes University College |
Found in | Rhodes University website, viewed Sep. 19, 2017: Why Rhodes, History of Rhodes (Rhodes University College; location, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape; founded by Act of Parliament on May 31, 1904, with four founding professors from St Andrew's College; it adapted the tutorial system from the Oxbridge model; its students took examinations at University of the Cape of Good Hope; it became a constituent college of the new University of South Africa in 1918; Rhodes opted to become an independent university in 1947) |