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Did Nicholas Murray Butler show anti-semitism in the management of enrollment at Columbia?

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Yes, Nicholas Murray Butler showed anti-semitism in the management of enrollment at Columbia. Butler's prejudice against Jews was well known to faculty and students at Columbia, and it was a factor in the school's low admission rate of Jews in the first half of the 20th century.
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