Word: clausus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years later, the museum was in for rougher times. As Harvard Magazine delicately put it, President Lowell was "unaccountably hostile" to it--so hostile, in fact, that in 1926 he prohibited the curator from raising any funds for the museum at all. (The Harvard president who initiated the numerus clausus for Jewish students, Lowell was also unaccountably hostile to the appointment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the Supreme Court. But, then, he was unaccountably hostile to almost anything that smacked of Jews...
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