Looming over the stairs to the locker rooms and pool, a zinc “Young Woman” watches the comings and goings of the Scripps College health and wellness center, Tiernan Field House. She is mounted on a platform, with a small sign erected on the wall behind her: “Young Woman, Georg Kolbe (1877-1947), c. 1925.” The figure is slender and athletic, with European features and an unassuming disposition. “Young Woman” represents what might be called an Aryan ideal. And her creator was associated with the Nazis. The Field House and Scripps pride themselves on being places of diverse intellectual, emotional, physical and...