clausus

The Latin word clausus entered Old French as clos, meaning “confined”, and in the late fifteenth century the sense of the English adjective close shifted to “near” by way of "closing the gap between two things."

address/speech, shut/shutter, close/shut Rene Meertens 2010

In general, the picture that emerges from the statistical data is one of constant erosion of the position and number of Jewish students, the evident result of ongoing practices of discrimination in admissions policies, a numerus clausus for Jews which spreads from institution to institution, from faculty to faculty, and growing violence against Jews on the various campuses on the part of right-wing Polish students.

Poland: Interwar. 2009

The only practical way to achieve that is to expand admissions at government military medical schools, since universities are in cahoots with the AMA as they extract rents in the form of excessive fees in exchange for enforcing the numerus clausus.

Help with the Spinach, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Among these “trail-blazers,” one must of course include the young Jewish women who managed to overcome the restrictions of the numerus clausus and acquire an academic education at universities within the boundaries of Romania.

Romania, Women and Jewish Education. 2009

That's only true if the providers don't have a way to restrict supply with licensing requirements and numerus clausus in Med School.

A Diabetes Legend, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In order to enter high school, Shoshana had to pass a test of the numerus clausus system, which limited the number of Jewish children who could be admitted into the Russian educational system.

Shoshana Persitz. 2009

This was initially true only of the daughters of the Jewish elite, who were sent outside Romania to acquire an academic education, largely due to the limitation on the number of Jews in higher education in Romania under the numerus clausus (quota) regulations.

Romania, Women and Jewish Education. 2009

The proportions of Jewish students in the law and medical faculties shrank even further in the 1930s, as both the numerus clausus and “Aryan paragraphs” steadily chipped away at Jewish representation in these fields.

Poland: Interwar. 2009

However, Ajzenberg was accepted both by the University of Michigan and by Purdue and was even interviewed for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she learned that there was a numerus clausus for women as well as for Jews.

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove. 2009

The pressure to strike down certain contract rules as inhibiting alienability that you sometimes see in other areas of property e.g. numerus clausus and restrictions on servitudes in personal property are much weaker where one can in fact guarantee that anyone who comes into contact with the property is on notice that the game developer reserves certain rights in it.

Some Skepticism 2005