Church-supported Colleges in New York Admit Jews Without Question, Survey Establishes

Denominational colleges in New York, in striking contrast to Dartmouth College which denies admittance to most Jewish applicants because of their religion, make no distictions because of a student’s race or creed, it was established here today.

A survey of church-supported schools in this area was made by The N.Y. Post, after Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth, attempted to justify to some extent the quota system carefully limiting Jewish students at his college with the assertion, “Dartmouth is a Christian college for the Christianization of its students.”

Fordham University, the local survey showed, has a large enrollment of Jewish students, especially in the law and pharmacy colleges. “Fordham has Jewish students, and there is no limit on them or any other racial or religious group,” Morris Ahearn, publicity director for the university, said.

Wagner College on Staten Island, partially supported by the Lutheran Church, also accepts for matriculation students of all races and creeds. Miss Kathleen Arney, secretary to the president of Wagner, said Negro and Jewish students were enrolled there. “There is no limitation of any kind here,” she said.

Seton Hall College, South Orange, N.J., another Catholic institution, also admits students of all racial strains and religious beliefs. Two Negro students at present are boarders at the college, a spokesman said.

Mother Thomas Aquinas, dean of the College of New Rochelle, told the The Post that her school admitted students regardless of race or religion. We are not concerned whether a student is black, white, yellow, Protestant or Jew,” Mother Thomas said. “We are a democratic college. I don’t think the quota system is right.”