Word: racialization
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Religious or racial discrimination was stoutly denied, however, by Harvard officials. And the discretionary power was explained this way: It was desirable to be able to admit high-stand students on certificate, not only from the eastern private schools that point specially for the college board examinations, but from schools in the South and West as well, where the college board is unknown either as a criterion or a cramp...
...much confusion and threatened chaos it is indispensable that the amenities no less than the intellectualities be concentrated and conserved, the highest character and traditions of American life. The means adopted by Harvard seem admirably calculated to accomplish this while avoiding the un-Americanism of racial or religious discrimination...
...President Lowell has resisted pressure from graduates who deprecate the increasing proportion of Jewish students; he has insisted upon full recognition of industry and ability. In 1922, when this pressure was first severely felt, the Board of Overseers passed a resolution that the traditional Harvard policy of freedom from racial or religious discrimination should be maintained; and, in announcing the present reform, the authorities point out that this policy is to be in no wise impaired...
...college is able to instruct effectively and to assimilate socially. The practical result of the discrimination against commuters will probably be to excude some of the less able among the young men who come from the Jewish quarter of Boston; but President Lowell, while standing as always against mere racial discrimination, is convinced that it is justified. Of late years there has been an antagonistic grouping of undergraduates as prejudicial to the members of the group as to the college. The purpose of education, he has said, is to break down the barrier of race and draw the individual into...
...phase of the problem. The discretionary provision in the ruling is susceptible to discrimination against undesirable candidates. That is its intention. If non-assimilable elements in the college tend to choke the freedom of the rest their numbers should be reduced. Commuting students are an example of this class, racial groups another. There is a danger inherent in the plan, however. Harvard's most precious quality is her heterogeneity. The balance of elements must be maintained, but an untoward restriction of any given group would be as disastrous, more disastrous even, than no restriction at all. There is no atmosphere...