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According the admissions report in the 1921 Official Registrar, which covered the years from 1917 to 1920, 60 percent of Harvard students were form private schools; that compares to 34 percent now. Eighty-eight percent of students were from New England and Atlantic states, compared to 53 percent today. Three percent hailed from Western states, compared to 15 percent today. Only a handful of students came from foreign countries--between .1 and .4 percent--and today foreign students comprise 6 percent of the student body...
There were only a few Asian students in the Class of 1921; now Asian-Americans comprise 13 percent of the student body. In 1909 there were five Blacks--.02 percent--compared to 11 percent today...
Campus social organizations excluded Italians, Jews and Blacks. Black students were barred from living in first-year dormitories. Lowell wrote to a parent of a Black student, "I am sure you will understand why, from the beginning, we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to reside together...
...March, Andre L. Williams '89 and Craig A. Cochrane '91 were ordered off a University Shuttle bus and searched by police officers seeking a suspect in a nearby shoplifting. The students filed a complaint over their treatment after they learned that the police were looking for a tall white male and were twice given a description that does not match either student before removing the two from the vehicle...
...Police Review and Advisory Board had hoped to hold a hearing before student witnesses leave Cambridge for the summer and Williams graduates, said William R. Golon, the executive director and chief investigator of the board...