Statistical report of the statisticians
Publisher: Harvard University
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Jewish college students; Statistics; Admission; Students; Discrimination in education; Antisemitism; Harvard University
Other titles: Statistical report on Jewish students at Harvard University, 1900-1922; Statistics of Jewish students at Harvard University, 1900-1922; Records of the Dean of Harvard College
Description: The report contains statistical tables pertaining to Jewish students attending Harvard College, the Engineering School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, the Medical School, the Dental School, and the Graduate School of Business Administration for the period from 1900 to 1922. As the University kept no records that specifically identified students as Jewish, statisticians relied on names and other demographic information to establish the percentage of Jewish students at Harvard. They analysed academic performance, disciplinary cases, participation in athletics, membership in social clubs, financial aid and loan repayment, post-Harvard professional education and vocations. Statistics comparing Jewish and non-Jewish students are included.
Notes: "... to the subcommittee appointed to collect statistics : Dean Chester N. Greenough, Chairman, Dean Wallace B. Donham, Dean Henry W. Holmes".

A detailed inventory of the Records of the Dean of Harvard College is available electronically: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua04000

Harvard University Archives. Records of the Dean of Harvard College; General Subject Files of Deans Yeomans and Greenough; Statistical report of the statisticians, 1922. UAIII 5.33.

This report was prompted by a discussion at Harvard during the 1920s about whether or not to limit the number of Jewish students accepted.