“For my MULO junior high I dressed the prescribed way—shorts, jacket buttoned up to the neck—but still just sandals, not yet shoes. It was 1920, and I still did not wear shoes. I did not have shoes. Only when I was about to enter the HBS senior high—almost all the students there were full-blood Dutch, not like in MULO, where there were mostly Eurasians—I became nervous. However, when the dancing lessons began at the