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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reading this article about how Harvard discriminated against Jews in the 1900s.  Some of the language used is remarkably similar to the way Asians are described today.  Sad that this type of discrimination exists 100 years later (just for a different group.)
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-jewish-quotas-began/

[quote]One writer in 1910 observed that in colleges there were “two classes, the one, favored according to undergraduate thinking, holding its position by financial ability to have a good time with leisure for carrying off athletic and other showy prizes; the other class in sheer desperation taking the faculty, textbooks, and debating more seriously. Each class runs in the same rut all its life.” Second-generation Jews obviously did not have the economic resources or the social standing to participate in the collegiate “leisure class.” For them a college education was less a mark of status than a vehicle out of the lower class, and this inevitably gave Jews a sense of purpose lacking elsewhere.

Numerous writers during the early 1900’s commented on the outstanding academic record of Jewish students. According to one observer: “At every university and college that I have visited, I have heard ungrudging praise of the exceptional ability of the Jewish, especially of the Russian-Jewish, students.” Even those uneasy about the influx of Jews rarely denied their enterprise as students. One comments begrudgingly: “History is full of examples where one race has displaced another by underliving and overworking.” Indeed, Jewish academic success, and the willingness of Jews to violate the “taboo on scholarship” (as one Yale professor called it), was a source of considerable resentment, and constituted no small part of the “Jewish problem.”
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Interesting read.  Also stresses how easy it was to get into Harvard 100 years ago.  Yet Harvard still provides huge legacy preferences to children/grandchildren etc of alum.[/quote]

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