Human Smoke (3)

"FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, now a lawyer in New York City, noticed that Jews made up one-third of the freshman class at Harvard. He talked the problem over with Henry Morgenthau, Sr., and he went to the Harvard Board of Overseers, of which he was a member. “It was decided,” Roosevelt later explained, “that over a period of years the number of Jews should be reduced one or two per cent a year until it was down to 15%.” It was about 1922."

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker