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Lowell continued to argue both in private correspondence and in public speeches that his rationale was the welfare of the Jewish students.

" It is the duty of Harvard ," he said, " to receive just as many boys who have come, or whose parents have come, to his country without our background as it can effectively educate.

" If higher Jewish enrollment provoked greater prejudice against them, he asked, " How can we cause the Jews to feel and be regarded as an integral part of the student body?

" He also suggested that Harvard would not be facing this issue if other universities and colleges would admit Jews in similar numbers: " If every college in the country would take a limited proportion of Jews, I suspect we should go a long way toward eliminating race feeling among the students.