“I am appalled, even horrified, that you have adopted Classics as a Major. As a matter of fact, I almost puked on the way home today . . . If you are going to stay on at Brown and be a professor of Classics, the courses you have adopted will suit you for a lifetime association with Gale Noyes. Perhaps he will even teach you to make jelly. In my opinion it won't do much to help you learn to get along with people in this world. I think you are rapidly becoming a jackass, and the sooner you get out of that filthy atmosphere, the better it will suit me.”