May 14, 1999

Princeton Tries to Explain a Drop in Jewish Enrollment

By BEN GOSE

A history of quotas makes the issue uncomfortable and emotional

How many Jews should there be at Princeton University?

Until the 1950s, Protestant leaders at many elite private colleges, including Princeton, came up with an ugly answer to such questions, establishing quotas to keep Jewish students out.

Now, after a generation in which once-robust Jewish enrollment at Princeton has been cut in

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