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What the history of Greek life reveals about Jewish whiteness and the price of assimilation

Louis Marshall had little patience for Greek life. In a 1928 letter to the president of Tau Epsilon Phi, a Jewish fraternity, he called frats “an absurd exhibition of infantilism” that “involve criminal waste of time.” He wrote that “[b]ooze and sex and their concomitants seem to constitute the be-all and end-all of [members’] mental […]