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[postmarked 12 Jan 1923]
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete:
I started to write my English topic today. It is hard to write.
I had a postcard from Grace today from Canterbury, telling me about my letter writing what I told her sister not so very long ago!
Louise Cohn announces in a letter to Helen that Cass and Louise became engaged Saturday night in a taxi on their way home from theater. Romantic!! together--it is too bad Lou didn't take Lucy instead of me!
The foreign students brought to this country by the National Student Forum for a tour of the colleges arrived yesterday. They are a German from Heidelberg, an English Jew from the London School of Ec., named "Robson" (they seem to do it in England, too!), and a Czech from the University of Prague, now at the Sorbonne. The other three are else-where--they are travelling in two groups. The Englishman is a homelier Jew than anything this country can offer! They spoke in Taylor Hall yesterday, but I could not go. There was also a reception for them last night. I wouldn't mind getting some dope from the Englishman on Rypins' stock subject, but I haven't the time, and besides, I don't imagine that he would care to talk about what the change of name
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete:
I started to write my English topic today. It is hard to write.
I had a postcard from Grace today from Canterbury, telling me about my letter writing what I told her sister not so very long ago!
Louise Cohn announces in a letter to Helen that Cass and Louise became engaged Saturday night in a taxi on their way home from theater. Romantic!! together--it is too bad Lou didn't take Lucy instead of me!
The foreign students brought to this country by the National Student Forum for a tour of the colleges arrived yesterday. They are a German from Heidelberg, an English Jew from the London School of Ec., named "Robson" (they seem to do it in England, too!), and a Czech from the University of Prague, now at the Sorbonne. The other three are else-where--they are travelling in two groups. The Englishman is a homelier Jew than anything this country can offer! They spoke in Taylor Hall yesterday, but I could not go. There was also a reception for them last night. I wouldn't mind getting some dope from the Englishman on Rypins' stock subject, but I haven't the time, and besides, I don't imagine that he would care to talk about what the change of name
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would hide!
We discussed "Upstream" in Tolerance today. Betsy Strong, niece of your friend Mr. McCreery, after announcing that she thought Lewisohn a very intolerant man himself, suggested as a solution the possibility that he might have made his mark among Jews--why not segregate the Jews entirely and have Jewish colleges? I don't think I have ever boiled as hard as at that, and I very speedily gave her a piece of my mind which she apparently could not answer. I asked her if there was any particular reason that there should be Jewish colleges other than for the teaching of the Jewish religion. Then I withdrew, and let Miss Brown do the talking. I don't know if she really meant it or not, but I think she did, because she said that it would solve a lot of the difficulties, as, for instance, the Harvard problem.
Yes, buy a present for Louise from both of us, Mother.
Love,
Fannie
We discussed "Upstream" in Tolerance today. Betsy Strong, niece of your friend Mr. McCreery, after announcing that she thought Lewisohn a very intolerant man himself, suggested as a solution the possibility that he might have made his mark among Jews--why not segregate the Jews entirely and have Jewish colleges? I don't think I have ever boiled as hard as at that, and I very speedily gave her a piece of my mind which she apparently could not answer. I asked her if there was any particular reason that there should be Jewish colleges other than for the teaching of the Jewish religion. Then I withdrew, and let Miss Brown do the talking. I don't know if she really meant it or not, but I think she did, because she said that it would solve a lot of the difficulties, as, for instance, the Harvard problem.
Yes, buy a present for Louise from both of us, Mother.
Love,
Fannie
