He took it out in boxing, and he came out of Princeton with painful self-consciousness and the flattened nose, and was married by the first girl who was nice to him. He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter. No one had ever made him feel he was a Jew, and hence any different from anybody else, until he went to Princeton. Robert Cohn was a member, through his father, of one of the richest Jewish families in New York, and through his mother of one of the oldest.Īt the military school where he prepped for Princeton, and played a very good end on the football team, no one had made him race-conscious. He had often wondered what had become of him. I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, bumped into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody verify the story from Spider Kelly. They did not even remember that he was middleweight boxing champion. I never met any one of his class who remembered him. In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles. This increased Cohn's distaste for boxing, but it gave him a certain satisfaction of some strange sort, and it certainly improved his nose.
He was so good that Spider promptly overmatched him and got his nose permanently flattened. Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds.īut it seemed to fit Cohn. There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him, although, being very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.
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All the rivers run into the sea yet the sea is not full unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again_." The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose. "_One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh but the earth abideth forever.
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