francis ferguson came from a family that wrote and what they wrote about was the southwest, the romance, the history of the southwest. his brother became a famous novelist, his sister wrote about the food of the southwest, the rituals of the kobe indians, france's ferguson wrote stories, paul horgan wrote stories and j. robert oppenheimer wrote stories, and they form the closely knit group of three young men all of whom aspired to be writers. oppenheimer should have started in harvard in 1921. that is when france's ferguson started at harvard. oppenheimer in the summer of 2 and went to europe as a young man and a child and returned very ill and had to spend the year convalescing and part of which he spent in new mexico. he was a year behind ferguson and arrived at harvard in 1922, a significant moment for harvard. quite shocking from the researching the history of this, realize that institutional prejudice against jews was so fierce, not that long ago, 1922. what we find in 1922 is the president of harvard one thing to persuade his colleagues to adopt quote as for the number of jews tha