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Rhodes was founded in 1904 as Rhodes University College, named after Cecil Rhodes, through a grant from the Rhodes Trust. It became a constituent college of the University of South Africa in 1918 before becoming an independent university in 1951.
1987: 16 University residences linked to the narrowcasting system. 1988: Test transmissions of Rhodes Educational Radio (RER) introduced. 1990: 5 RMR presenters (the wider team included Station Manager Alex McGowan, Reuben Goldberg, Andrew Bolton, Kyle Hannan and Tove Kane) set a record for non-stop broadcasting by a campus station (336 hours).
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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]
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The Cory Library for Humanities Research, formerly The Cory Library for Historical Research, is a research library at Rhodes University, and is one of the branch libraries of the Rhodes University Library services. [1] In addition to its preservation of Eastern Cape history, it also contains the archives of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.
The initial campus of the university was located in Bird Street, in Central, Port Elizabeth, which had previously been used by Rhodes University. [2] In January 1974, the university moved to a newly built campus on 800 ha (2,000 acres) in Summerstrand. [2] The Bird Street campus was sold off during the 1990s. [2]
The Albany Museum, South Africa is situated in Grahamstown in South Africa, is affiliated to Rhodes University [1] and dates back to 1855, [2] making it the second oldest museum in South Africa. The British Settlers of 1820 Landing in Algoa Bay