Word: numerus
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...London's King's Cross station, a cluster of students in starry robes, pointed hats and rep ties are learning how plants grow, but it's not botany; they call it "herbology." In an adjacent classroom a boy with a famous lightning-bolt scar brandishes his wand, chants "Numerus Subtracticus!" and conjures the correct answer to a math problem...
...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...
From these media presentations and closed doors whispers about U.S. college admissions one hears even the most vocal "meritocracy" guardians now advocating fixed quotas for Asian-Americans when just a few years ago they argued vehemently against a policy of numerus clausus. Some are now even going so far as to suggest that factors such as personality, community work, and other intangibles be reintroduced as criteria for admissions. These tactics represent a serious racist attack against Asian-Americans and the ultimate in hypocrisy. The message these hypocrites are sending to Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian-Americans is clear...
...with "a very vague and idealized notion of what the physician's role was going to be." He went on to Penn's medical school, where he graduated first in his class. "I had a lot of trouble getting in because those were the days when there was a numerus clausus on Jews," he recalls now. "It left a strong impression on me which I don't intend to forget and hope I never forget, because that's why I feel I owe it to blacks and Puerto Ricans and Chicanos to support them." He specialized in learning disabilities...
...Budapest some years ago Jewish Andreas David wished to enter the University. He paid a fixer, one Stephen Karsay. who got him admitted despite a numerus clausus (enrolment limitation) ruling directed against Jews. Later Student David found that Fixer Karsay had taken a laborer named Ziesander Cripeler to a priest, had him baptized under the name of Andreas David. In spite of the fraudulent baptism certificate. Student David wanted to be listed at the University as a Jew. He did not wish to be a Christian even on paper. Last week the Budapest High Tribunal again postponed his case. Much...