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TIL that a number of private US universities (including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had quotas on the maximum number of Jews to be admitted. In 1935, Yale's Med School Dean stated: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."

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