Now, Tomorrow, Forever- Numerus Clausus Prevails

WI numerus clausus hung on? Would this be included in the Civil Rights Act of '64 or '68? In Canada, it hung on until the 1960's, though it was mostly Jews that were affected, since higher admissions standards were useless and 90% of Francophones were only high school grads.
 
WI numerus clausus hung on? Would this be included in the Civil Rights Act of '64 or '68? In Canada, it hung on until the 1960's, though it was mostly Jews that were affected, since higher admissions standards were useless and 90% of Francophones were only high school grads.

If you're talking about the United States, numerus clausus actually died at about the same time as the Civil Rights Era - Yale, the last major university, eliminated it only in 1966. Some would argue it's come back today, except this time discriminating against Asian immigrants.
 
since higher admissions standards were useless

What do you mean? Are you saying that academic achievement was completely irrelevant, and that the only thing that mattered was money/position? It was not until relatively recently that Harvard switched to a more meritocratic model.
 
What happened was that the "official" quota system was instituted at McGill by the then-Chancellor, Gen. Sir Arthur Currie, in 1933. They tried raising the Jewish threshold to 75% (others being 65-70), and then to 80%. Didn't work. So they instituted the numerus clausus system by WWII. Keeping in mind that since mostly wealthy Anglophones went to McGill until the QR due to the lack of mass education, Jews were their main target.
 
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