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 quota. there was strong pushback to the ugly idea of counting jews. they looked for ways to hold down jewish enrollment without actually having a specific jewish quota number or an
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
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, jerome carabel, 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 quota. there was strong pushback to the ugly idea of counting jews. they looked for ways to hold down jewish enrollment without actually having a specific