JACKSON -- Donald "Field" Brown, a Mississippi State University senior who co-founded a literary magazine at the school, has been named a Rhodes Scholar.
The Rhodes Trust announced Sunday the English and philosophy major was one of 32 people in the U.S. who will enter Oxford University next October.
The winners were selected from 857 applicants. The scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the prestigious university in England.
"It's still surreal right now," Brown
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