From Leon Keyserling (Oldest son), 1926

From Columbia University; descriptions of his exams, mentions visits with his ailing mother at sanitarium; deciding what he should do with his life after graduation (return south and go into business or law school,) asks his father's advice; musings on capitalism and Karl Marx; mentions ice skating with friends as a diversion from study; he admits that there is a marked segregation of Jews and gentiles at Columbia (Jews could not be on student boards nor editors of campus literary endeavors, etc.,) although he claims the professors are impartial; advises that Beth should apply for a scholarship to Barnard College; mentions his friends and how he was almost expelled from his fraternity for not attending meetings; details about a hitch hiking trip to Canada and the Midwest; re. Beth's rejection from Barnard (which only accepted 29 Jews); reflection on his first two years of college.