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Jun. 12th, 2012 04:20 pmдальше там тоже интересно.In 1905, Harvard College adopted the College Entrance Examination Board tests as the principal basis for admission, which meant that virtually any academically gifted high--school senior who could afford a private college had a straightforward shot at attending. By 1908, the freshman class was seven per cent Jewish, nine per cent Catholic, and forty--five per cent from public schools, an astonishing transformation for a school that historically had been the preserve of the New England boarding-- school complex known in the admissions world as St. Grottlesex.
As the sociologist Jerome Karabel writes in "The Chosen" (Houghton Mifflin; $28), his remarkable history of the admissions process at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, that meritocratic spirit soon led to a crisis. The enrollment of Jews began to rise dramatically. By 1922, they made up more than a fifth of Harvard's freshman class. The administration and alumni were up in arms. Jews were thought to be sickly and grasping, grade--grubbing and insular. They displaced the sons of wealthy Wasp alumni, which did not bode well for fund--raising. A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard's president in the nineteen--twenties, stated flatly that too many Jews would destroy the school: "The summer hotel that is ruined by admitting Jews meets its fate . . . because they drive away the Gentiles, and then after the Gentiles have left, they leave also."
Malcolm Gladwell, “Getting In”
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