Admission to the Club

At a time when the topmost positions at most of America’s elite private colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, are held or have been recently held by Jews, ¹ it is hard to believe that, as recently as a generation ago, men and women of the “Hebrew persuasion” were never to be seen in the executive suites of such institutions. Until the 1960s, Jews were also quite rare in the ranks of the senior professoriate and, because of widely practiced ways of limiting admission, constituted a rather small minority of their student bodies as well.