balls. good manners trumped good grades. he s handsome and charming, he writes thank-you notes. conan believed among those working the fields were jefferson s diamonds in the rough, just waiting to be discovered. let s find those people and bring them to harvard. but how to find them? conan decided that we needed a test. not to measure knowledge, greek, or higher mathematics. that would favor the well-schooled. this really isn t the kind of a test you can study for. instead we need a test that measures innate aptitude. harvard had such a test for scholarship student. ready? begin. and it became you may begin. america s s.a.t. a test for all americans. last year, 2 million students took it.
prevalent then and concern grew over the number of jews at ivy league schools. they came knocking at the door of the ivies and the ivies were very uncomfortable with that. at harvard, president lowell openly called it the jewish problem. his solution, count the jews to see how quickly their numbers were rising. they felt that jews will take over. according to this historian, administrators pored over records. but it wasn t always clear who was jewish. so a ranking system was used. j-1 for students who were clearly jewish. j-2, more than likely jewish. j-3, could be jewish. the findings, in 1922, harvard was 21% jewish. the president decided to take action. i am instituting a jewish