Today -100: June 2, 1922: Of Jewish students, constabularies, and flappers

Harvard plans to restrict admissions, although there will be a long period of “general discussion” about how to do that. The university says it’s running out of classrooms and dorms. And obviously if there’s going to be some sort of limitation, “It is natural that... there should be talk about the proportion of Jews at the college.” Which in 1922 is about 20%, because up until now Harvard has been relatively liberal compared to, say, Yale and Princeton.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary comes into existence, including many cops from the old Royal Irish Constabulary. Which I only mention so I can bring up that when they decided to rename it 20 years ago to remove the divisive term Ulster, it took a surprisingly long time for them to realize there was a problem with “Northern Irish Police Service”...

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