That privately-controlled Canadian universities have within recent years established a “numerus clausus” for Jewish students, is reported in the April issue of More Facts. According to Claris E. Silcox, of the Canadian Institute of Social and Religious Research, this restriction ranges from eight to twelve percent, “depending either upon the specific professional training sought, or on some local condition.”
Mr. Silcox lists three fundamental factors as contributing to the inauguration of these restrictive measures. One is that the Jew is essentially an urbanite, eighty-six percent of the entire Canadian Jewish population living in ten of its cities; second, Jewish tradition has always put a premium on learning; and third, the cosmopolitan characteristics of the Jew, who “must carry about with him at least two cultures.”
Antipathy to Jewish students is, in some measure, also based on the fact that while a large proportion of them win scholarships, few scholarship or bursary funds have been supplied by wealthy Jews.
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