As early as
1875 a law was passed withholding from Jewish students the stipends they
had hitherto received from a fund set aside for that purpose. In 1882
the number of Jewish students in the Military Academy of Medicine was
limited to five per cent, and later it was reduced to zero. Thereafter
one professional school after another adopted a percentage provision,
and some excluded Jews altogether. Finally, "seeing that many Jewish
young men, eager to benefit by a higher classical, technical, or
professional education," presented themselves every year for admission
to the universities, that they passed their examination and continued
their studies at the various schools of the empire, the Government
deemed it "desirable to put a stop to a state of affairs which is so
unsatisfactory." Consequently the ministry limited the attendance of
Jews residing in places within the Pale to ten per cent in all schools
and universities (December 5, 1886; June 26, 1887), in places without
the Pale to five per cent, and in Moscow and St. Petersburg to three per
cent, of the total number of pupils in each school and university.
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