is the aim of all social pushers—including, of late, even the Jews[1]—and once they get in they adopt, in so far as they are able, the terminology of its clergy, whose eagerness to appear English is traditional. The fashionable preparatory schools for boys and finishing schools for girls, many of which are directly controlled by this sect, are also very active centers of Anglomania, and have firmly established such Briticisms as headmaster, varsity, chapel (for the service as well as the building), house-master, old boy, monitor, honors, prefect and form, at least in fashionable circles. The late Woodrow Wilson, during his term as president of Princeton, gave currency to various other English academic terms, including preceptor and quad, but the words died with his reforms. At such schools as Groton and Lawrenceville the classes are called forms, and elaborate efforts are made in other ways to imitate the speech of Eton and Harrow. Dr. J. Milnor Coit, while rector of the fashionable St. Paul's School, at Concord, N. H., gave a great impetus to this imitation of English manners. Says a leading authority on American private schools: "Dr. Coit encouraged cricket rather than baseball. The English schoolroom nomenclature, too, was here introduced to the American boy. St. Paul's still has forms, but the removes, evensong and matins, and even the cricket of Dr. Coit's time are now forgotten. Most boys of the three upper forms have separate rooms. The
- ↑ Jews desiring to abandon Moses formerly embraced Christian Science, but of late the more wealthy of them have been taking bold headers into the Anglican communion, especially in New York. I am informed that St. Bartholomew's Church, in the fashionable Park avenue, is their favorite. In a review of the last edition of the present work in the American Hebrew, March 10, 1922, Rabbi David Philipson, of the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, said: "This reminds one of the story told of a Jewess who joined one of the most fashionable Episcopal churches in New York City. She was most assiduous in attending services on Sunday and in supporting the church charities. Of course, her chief reason for joining this church was to enter the exclusive social circles. She was disappointed in this because, despite her conscientious attendance at church services, she did not form the acquaintance of any of the aristocratic women in the congregation. She approached the rector and said to him that she had been a member of the church for some time, yet had not had the pleasure of meeting any of the members. The rector told her to remain after the service the following Sunday and he would be pleased to introduce her to one or more of his parishioners. As requested, she tarried after the service the next Sunday. To her amazement and chagrin the rector brought up to her for the purpose of introduction a woman whom she recognized as a former schoolmate in the religious school of a leading Jewish congregation of the city."
