Brandeis University, which expects to open In the fall of this year, announced today that It has distributed 15,000 specimen application forms to high school principals throughout the country which will enable the non-sectarian institution to “secure as Brandeis students those young men and women who are qualified scholastically, without reference to race, color or religion.”
Pointing out that the application forms have aroused considerable favorable comment in educational circles throughout the United States, Provost Max R. Grossman explained that the top section of the form, where personal data is supplied, is perforated from the lower half which contains pertinent scholastic information. The committee on admissions, Mr. Grossman said, will not see the section bearing personal data.
At the same time, it was announced that seven distinguished educators and cultural figures have been named to the University’s Educational Advisory Committee. They are: Dr, Paul Klapper, president of Queens College, New York; Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer; Mrs. Susan Brandeis Gilbert, member of the New York State Board of Regents; Prof. Stephen A. Freeman, dean of the French School at Middlebury College, Vermont; Prof. Louis M. Hacker, of Columbia University; Prof. Hubert C. Heffner, head of the department of Speech and Drama at Stanford University, California; and Dr. Abram L. Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission, Washington, D.C.
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