According to my mom who graduated from Smith College in 1933, Jewish students like herself were not allowed to live in the houses at Smith and could only reside in the Coop house.  She also mentioned that though she felt somewhat excluded, when prominent NYC scholars were invited to speak at Smith they would often as to see her as her father was a well-known and well-connected scholar in NYC.

 

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