A sharp decline in the number of Jewish students registered at Polish universities in the last decade, attributable largely to discriminatory measures, was revealed today with publication of the Official Statistical Yearbook. In 1928 there were 8,700 Jews in the nation’s universities, or 20.4 per cent of the entire registration. Ten years later their number had dropped to 4,800, or 10 per cent of the total.
A different picture, however, is revealed by the statistics with regard to degrees received by Jewish students. In the academic year 1936-36, Jewish students were awarded 911 degrees, or 14,9 per cent of the total.
Commenting on the figures, the Nationalist newspaper Warszawski Dziennik Narowdowy declared that they proved that the fight of Polish youth to oust Jews from the university had not achieved success. Jews, the newspaper said , were continuing to occupy a privilege position which it was the duty of people responsible for the country’s future to end.
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