athletic achievements, and promised that if admitted to Oxford: I would read for the Oxford B.A. in the Honor School of Jurisprudence and then enter Law School in the United States. In those days Jewish boys (only males were eligible for Rhodes) from Brooklyn were not selected by the Rhodes Committee, and de

it and hung up the phone. Within an hour, I was abruptly summoned into the Dean’s Office. Dean Erwin Griswold informed me that I had offended one of the Law School’s most important and influential alumni, that I was the only assistant professor ever to turn down an invitation to speak at that club and that it was