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LUCKILY I HAVE a friend named Mrs. Emmett, Class of 1907, who insists on keeping informed about what young people are doing these days and invites me over periodically so she can hear a first-hand account. In exchange for consciously deceiving this kind old lady by posing as an authority on my generation. I get to hear all her stories about the past, her opinions about the present, and her worries about the future...
...Emmett majored in philosophy at Radcliffe and took courses from Professor William James, who happened to be a friend of her father. (The first time I met her, Mrs. Emmett told me the story of William James's visit to her California home at the time of the 1906 San Francsicso earthquake. After the whole family had rushed terrified out of the shaking house in the middle of the night, somebody looked around and said. "But where's Professor James." They went back in to find James, who had never before been in an earthquake, sitting on his bed writing...
...know that she has outlived two husbands, that she has twice moved from New England to California and back again, and that she has helped Radcliffe recruit West Coast applicants and increase scholarship funds, but most of Mr. Emmett's life remains for me a foggy past from which surprising facts occasionally emerge. (At one point, for instance, when we were talking about private airplanes, she said. "I rode in a private airplane once--with Mr. Lindbergh...
...EMMETT about three years ago at a Palo Alto Radcliffe Club luncheon just before I first came to Radcliffe. She was the oldest person there and I was the youngest and since we were both moving to Cambridge in September she was selling her house and moving out here to be near her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, we arranged to keep in touch. Since then I've gone to her apartment several times a year for lunch or dinner and she's eaten with me a couple of times at Radcliffe. She has introduced me to several...
...that we see eye to eye on everything I hardly consider myself a radical advocate of Women's Liberation but next to Mrs. Emmett I seem to breathe fire. She also has the kind of aristocratic attitude which is the expected result of her family history, her education, and her place in time, and I suspect that she's vaguely anti-Semitic (she doesn't know I'm Jewish...