This has been reflected, for case in point, in the initiation by the first warden (Sir Francis Wylie), of an annual warden's Christmas letter (now supplemented by Rhodes e-news and other communications) the generation of alumni associations in quite a few nations around the world, most prominently the Association of American Rhodes Scholars (which publishes The American Oxonian, started in 1914, and oversees the Eastman Professorship) and the.