Universities Used to Filter People Out By Height

"Each year, Yale carefully measured the height of entering freshmen, noting with pride the proportion of the class at six feet or more."

"If Harvard had too many Asians, it wouldn’t be Harvard, just as Harvard wouldn’t be Harvard with too many Jews or pansies or parlor pinks or shy types or short people with big ears."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in