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>> 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 je...

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 fi...

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 ...