Nigeria, May 12 -- "I find it rather difficult to make it clear to my children why we are not eligible, for from one point of view it isn't quite clear to me."

X, "The Jew and the Club," The Atlantic, October 1924.

It must surely make certain ethnic and religious groups reflect, notably those languishing in minority status for decades, if not centuries. There was a time when the rental advertisements in London had such caustic couplings as "Irish and Blacks need not apply." Oxbridge bursaries and scholarships, in all their variety, reveal a tapestry of personal prejudice and lively bigotry. In terms of recreational clubs, the east coast, moneyed establishment in the United States prided itself from keeping Jews out of the membership cir...