Ivy League universities imposed quotas on Jewish enrollment in the 1920s.

Evidence

Claiming Jews were unathletic, too academically competitive, and incapable of integrating into university social life, a sizable number of faculty members and students supported quotas to limit Jewish enrollment. Jewish student enrollment at Columbia reached 40 percent in 1919, causing the university to impose quotas on Jews and admissions criteria that favored affluent Protestant students. Harvard followed suit in 1922 when it imposed a 15 percent limit on the admission of Jewish students. As a result, the number of Jewish students dropped from 40 percent to 22 percent at Columbia within two years. Notwithstanding the decline in Jewish students, six of the nine editors of the Columbia Law Review were Jewish in 1930 because of their superior academic performance. Their social status as racial outsiders resulted in punishment, rather than reward, for their success. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 277

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Useful precedent for how American institutions encode religious-racial exclusion; relates to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ framing of moral panics as identity politics.
• XREF: Concrete statistical demonstration of the racialization-of-religion thesis that animates the whole book.