New York University does not practice discrimination in admitting students to its graduate and undergraduate schools, including its medical college, and half of the current clase and of past classes have been Jewish, Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, chancellor of the university, said yesterday.
Addressing a luncheon of campaign workers for the N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, Dr. Chase said that no questions about race or religion were asked students prior to their admission. A study of the eight classes admitted since 1940, he added, showed that a ration of about half Jewish and half Christian students had been maintained.
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