ABSTRACT
In the late summer of 1943 the author was volunteered for overseas service in the Canadian Army and was rejected for minor medical reasons but accepted for home service. The chapter house was a narrow old three-story Victorian town house containing seven or eight bedrooms just off the campus. Several of the rooms were customarily rented to older single men with jobs downtown who had no connection with the university, although their number occasionally included graduate students and former members of fraternity chapters at other universities. The city contained a large immigrant Jewish community still somewhat concentrated in “the ghetto”— what sociologists have called the “area of first settlement”— while the second-generation children of the immigrants were enrolling in the university in large numbers. There were, on the other hand, very few non-white people living in the city.
