That there exists a marked discrimination against Jewish applicants to American medical schools was admitted by Dr. Harold Rypins, secretary of the New York State Board of Medical Examiners, in an address before the faculty and students of Long Island University last Tuesday. Dr. Rypins said, however, that he believed the situation was not due to conscious prejudice, but rather to an unfortunate geographic situation.
Other speakers deplored what was described as “an aristocratic trend” in medicine, law and dentistry, which they said ran “exactly contrary to the democratic tendency in general education” and made for “religious, racial and geographic” discrimination by the country’s medical schools.
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