September 1985 Issue [Article] The first day of school Adjust Share by Cynthia Ozick, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Biography College freshmen Cynthia Ozick New York New York (State) New York University Students Washington Square (New York, N.Y.) More from Cynthia Ozick The Bloodline of the Alkanas Cyrus Alkana was my father, and if you can recognize this name, you belong to an inconspicuous substratum of humanity — a coterie, if such things can still be said… Literary entrails The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin Why I won’t go to Germany Adjust Share