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...President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Lowell replied that he “had foreseen the peril of having too large a number of an alien race and had tried to prevent it.” While Lowell’s overhaul of the admissions system discriminated against Jewish applicants at the time, the principles he advocated have ultimately led to a more diverse College body, and today give us a useful framework for understanding the value of all groups of students on campus—including recruited athletes...
During Lowell’s tenure, Harvard was struggling with the problem of reducing its number of Jewish students, which had climbed to 27 percent of the student body by the mid-1920s. In order to quell this influx of smart, seemingly-qualified students, the admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender...
...admissions policies. The student body today is diverse on numerous levels—racial, sexual, religious, social, academic—and each of those qualities is crucial in the general makeup of the community. However, this same type of apathy towards diversity that led to the marginalization of Jewish students persists in campus discourse. Unlike the 1920s though, this apathy is manifested in students’ derogatory attitude—not University Hall policies—towards the importance of athletes...
Here’s a fact I know about my Jewish grandpa: he died the day before I went to Auschwitz. I got the news at an internet café in Krakow, a few hours after taking a group tour of the former concentration camp. My mom’s e-mail subject line was “Sad News.” After the initial surprise, I was a little upset that my family had only sent an e-mail. Of course, I didn’t expect my mom to call, but what about...
...concentration camps, became the conscience of the Holocaust, making certain that the atrocities of World War II were not forgotten. On March 31, 1967, TIME wrote about Wiesenthal's memoir The Murderers Among Us. Here is an excerpt from the review that touches on the fate of the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank...