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Charles Tucker Brooke received an A.B. from West Virginia University at the age of eighteen and an M.A. one year later. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1904, he was a member of the first group of Rhodes Scholars from around the world. At WVU he was class poet and a member of Kappa Alpha. He studied at St. John's (more properly, the President and Scholars of Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford) and received B.A. and B. Lit. Degrees. In 1908, 1909, and 1910, his works were published in England. In 1909, he began a teaching career at Yale University, eventually becoming the Sterling Professor of English and a leading authority on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature.

13. Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, First Rhodes Scholar from West Virginia University at Oxford

IDNO:
026915
Title:
Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, First Rhodes Scholar from West Virginia University at Oxford
Date:
ca. 1904
Description:
Charles Tucker Brooke received an A.B. from West Virginia University at the age of eighteen and an M.A. one year later. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1904, he was a member of the first group of Rhodes Scholars from around the world. At WVU he was class poet and a member of Kappa Alpha. He studied at St. John's (more properly, the President and Scholars of Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford) and received B.A. and B. Lit. Degrees. In 1908, 1909, and 1910, his works were published in England. In 1909, he began a teaching career at Yale University, eventually becoming the Sterling Professor of English and a leading authority on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature.
Group portrait of nine Rhodes Scholars from WVU. Front Row: Craig Underwood, Roger Tompkins (d), John Phillips (d), David Hardesty. Back Row: Daniel Williams, Barbara Harmon-Schamberger, Brian Glasser, Brad Hoylman, Thomas Gaziano.

14. Rhodes Scholars of West Virginia Univeristy

IDNO:
030841
Title:
Rhodes Scholars of West Virginia Univeristy
Date:
ca. 1990-2000
Description:
Group portrait of nine Rhodes Scholars from WVU. Front Row: Craig Underwood, Roger Tompkins (d), John Phillips (d), David Hardesty. Back Row: Daniel Williams, Barbara Harmon-Schamberger, Brian Glasser, Brad Hoylman, Thomas Gaziano.
Scholarly portrait of C. F. Tucker Brooke, West Virginia University's first Rhodes Scholar.

15. Portrait of Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke of Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
040464
Title:
Portrait of Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke of Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1905
Description:
Scholarly portrait of C. F. Tucker Brooke, West Virginia University's first Rhodes Scholar.
Brooke was West Virginia University's first Rhodes Scholar and a member of the first group of Rhodes Scholar from around the world.

16. Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke of Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
040466
Title:
Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke of Morgantown, W. Va.
Description:
Brooke was West Virginia University's first Rhodes Scholar and a member of the first group of Rhodes Scholar from around the world.