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170 been running around with him a lot. You ’ve even brought him here several times. Of course, you can have anybody in your room you want, but we don’t want any Jews around the house. I don’t see why you had to pick him up, anyway. There ’s plenty of Christians in college.*’

“He’s a first-class fellow,” Hugh replied stub¬ bornly, “and I like him. I don’t see why we have to be so high-hat about Jews and Catholics. Most of the fraternities take, in Catholics, and the Phi Thetas take in Jews; at least, they’ve got two. They bid Einstein, but he turned them down; his folks don’t want him to join a fraternity. And Chubby Elson told me that the Theta Kappas wanted him awfully, but they have a local rule against Jews.”

“That does n’t make any difference,” Tucker said sharply. “We don’t want him around here. Be¬ cause some of the fraternities are so damn broad¬ minded is n’t any reason that we ought to be. I don’t see that their broad-mindedness is getting them anything. We rate about ten times as much as the Phi Thetas or the Theta Kappas, and the reason we do is that we are so much more exclusive.”

Hugh wanted to mention the three Nu Delta thugs, but he wisely restrained himself. “All right,” he said stubbornly, “I won’t bring Einstein around here again, and I won’t bring Parker either, fa»* I ’ll see just as much of them as I want to. M