In a compilation of statistics concerning the student body of St. Thomas College, an institution harbored by the Scranton Roman Catholic diocese, officials have announced that eleven percent of the nearly 600 students enrolled are Jews.
Six years ago, less than a half-dozen Jewish students were studying at the college, of whose faculty the Christian Brothers, a Catholic teaching order, comprise approximately fifty percent. In the past several years, two Jewish professors have been members of the faculty. They were Dr. Louis Myers, Baltimore, Md., and Dr. Louis Milkman, Scranton.
The time-worn slur in college and university circles that Jewish students fail to contribute part of their time to extra-curricular activities in institutions where they are greatly in the minority, is blasted at St. Thomas, the survey reveals.
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