We've had Jewish applicants.
Even if the motive was less than fully pure, however, discrimination against Jewish applicants became a thing of the past.
He was living at 765 Park Avenue, a white-shoe building with a reputation - denied then and now - for being unfriendly to Jewish applicants.
Mayor David N. Dinkins said yesterday that the changes were intended to save money, not to punish Jewish applicants.
"I don't think it is the Commissioner's desire to decrease the number of Jewish applicants but rather to increase the number of others."
Universities and professional schools set quotas on Jewish enrollment or refused Jewish applicants.
Not only were there quotas on Jewish applicants, but veterans were given first choice.
At least half of Soviet Jewish applicants are in that category, known as "priority 6," the lowest level in the United States Government ranking system.
Columbia at this time was one of the only elite private universities that did not limit admission of Jewish applicants with implicit quotas around 12%.
Under his leadership, Root, Clark also became the first of the white shoe firms to accept Jewish applicants.