Race prejudice is robbing thousands of Jewish students of the opportunity to obtain a medical education, declared Dr. A. M. Schwitella, dean of the St. Louis University School of Medicine, before the Association of American Medical Colleges’ sessions at the Medical Center.
On pretexts of personality and scholarship, authorities are able to conceal their real reason for denying admittance to Jews, he asserted. The combination is unfair, he said, and makes for rejection where there is no hint of lack of ability.
Dean Miller of the Long Island College Hospital, and Dean A. S. Begg of Boston University School of Medicine, who have made an investigation similar to that of Dean Schwitella, concurred in his views. Both declared that many students of recognized ability often had to seek admittance to twenty schools before they were successful in being accepted.
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