1921 letter, to his son, my father, a
freshman at Northwestern University,
from his father, my grandfather:
“Your detailed letter received. I
liked it very much in that it told
exactly what you were doing but
it displeased me greatly that you
were doing as you are. I am not
going to write a lecture, you know
what I think and what I expect you
are at school for. You are not getting
it and I cannot see that it is possible
for you to do so at that school with
your present environments and at
your present age. I would not object
at all to have you drop school at once
and take a new start in a year or two
when you are more mature in your
purposes. There is one thing I must
warn you of. You indicate that you
are getting in with a new flock of
girls. I do not like the tone of your
letter regarding this. . . . “
©2018 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Mar 7-12, 2019.
