tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post4118968709849811033..comments2024-03-28T08:20:11.686-05:00Comments on Daughter Number Three: Keeping Jews Out of YaleDaughter Number Threehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08171356533232458827noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post-58422077103412190792014-11-18T16:59:53.773-06:002014-11-18T16:59:53.773-06:00English departments were long marked by this spiri...English departments were long marked by this spirit of exclusion. Irving Howe: “Jews, it was often suggested, could not register the finer shadings of the Anglo-Saxon spirit as it shone through the poetry of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. (Christians did not seem to be similarly incapacitated with regard to the Old Testament.)”<br /><br />I think back to the status T. S. Eliot held during my undergrad days and shudder.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.com