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The long road to Rhodes Scholarship
An insider s view of the demanding selection process at Oxford
University, and how two young Quebec women prevailed
BY PEGGY CURRAN, THE GAZETTE NOVEMBER 26, 2010
“Are we ready to send them up?”
Members of Quebec’s Rhodes Scholarship committee have spent the last hour doing some preinterview bonding in the executive offices of the Power Corporation.
Curator Paul Marechal has taken them on a tour of the firm’s collection of art masterpieces by
the likes of Jean-Paul Riopelle, Corneilius Krieghoff, Tom Thomson and Marc-Aurèle Fortin.
Now they’ve arrived at a pretty reception room.
The time has come to meet the candidates.
Soon, the room is abuzz, as applicants for the province’s two scholarships flit from group to
group, keen to make
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