Format:
1 Online-Ressource (351 pages)
ISBN:
9781351481601
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- 1. The Big Three -- Why Harvard, Yale, and Princeton? -- The Life Line of Empire: Student Recruitment -- Financing the Empire: Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Benefactors -- The Changing Campus: World War I and the Beginning of Restrictive Admissions -- Drawing the Caste Line: From Admissions to Extracurricular Activities -- 2. Portraits and Philosophies of Two Harvard Presidents: -- Family Background and Personality -- Educational Philosophy -- Social Philosophy: Free or Restricted Immigration? -- Student Diversity Within Harvard University -- Irish Catholics -- Jews -- Negroes -- Foreign Student Enrollment -- 3. Harvard: Debate on Restriction, 1922 -- First Inquiries -- Faculty Meetings of May 23 and June 2,1922 -- Appointment of the Committee on Methods of Sifting Candidates for Admission -- Alumni, Undergraduate, and Public Reaction -- The Negro Question -- 4. Harvard: Methods of Sifting Candidates for Admission, 1920s to 1950s -- Investigation by the Committee on Methods -- Denial of Racial Discrimination in Housing and Admissions, 1923 -- Profile of the Jewish Student at Harvard: "Statistical Report" -- Faculty Adoption of the Committee on Methods' Report -- Limits on Enrollment in Harvard College: The Beginning of Restriction on Jewish Students, 1926 -- The Harvard Houses: Apportionment of Students by Type of Secondary School and by Race -- The Masters at Harvard-and at Yale -- The Students Outside the Houses -- 5. Yale: Reaction and Stabilization, 1900s to 1940s -- President Arthu rTwinin gHadley and the "Yale Spirit" -- Minorities at Yale: Jews, Catholics, Negroes, and Foreign Students -- President James Rowland Angell and the Old Blues
Content:
The "Jewish Question": How to "Protect" Yale? -- Limitation of Numbers, 1922-23 -- First Attempts to Stabilize Jewish Enrollment, 1924 -- 6. Princeton: The Triumph of the Clubs, 1900s to 1950s -- President Woodrow Wilson: A nIntellectual Revitalization of Princeton -- The Quadrangle Plan Versus the Upper-Class Clubs -- The Graduate School Controversy: A Fight for Social Democracy -- Minorities at Princeton: Catholics, Jews, and Orientals -- Woodrow Wilson and A. Lawrence Lowell: Comparison and Contrast -- Special Committee on Limitation of Enrollment, 1921-22 -- The Beginning of "Selective Admission," 1922 -- 7. Conclusion: A New Elite, 1940s to 1970s -- Harvard -- Yale -- Princeton -- Discretion or Discrimination: Ethnic Quotas in College Admissions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
9781412813341
Additional Edition:
Print version Synnott, Marcia The Half-Opened Door : Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970 Somerset : Taylor and Francis,c2010 9781412813341
Language:
English
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