The Sentinel, v.150 no. 13, 1947

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COLLEGE QUO
By BEATRICI
WASHINGTON-THE QUOTA
colleges and universities has been offici
mission.
Negroes and Jews are cited by the
denied the chance to learn, particularly
An outspoken attack on the quota
unjustifiable and indefensible was re-cently
made in a report to President
Truman by his Commission on Higher
Education. The
first volume of the
six-volume report,
"Higher Education
for American
Democracy," lays
down the goals:
Toward a fuller
realization of de-mocracy,
toward
international un-derstanding
a ndd
cooperation, and solving problems of
human association.
Unequal Education Stressed
In a revealing section on barriers to
equal opportunity, the report declares:
"One of the gravest charges to which
American society is subject is that of
failing to provide a reasonable equality
of educational opportunity for its youth.
For the great majority of our boys and
girls, the kind and amount of education
they may hope to attain depends, not
on their own abilities, but on the family
or community into which they hap-pened
to be born, or, worse still, on
the color of their skin or the religion
of their parents."
Observe, says the Commission, that
the American Nation not merely unites
48 different states. It is, additionally,
a union of many diverse groups. The
discrimination practiced against Ne-groes
and Jews in particular, in univer-sities
and colleges is assailed by the
Commission as violating "a major
American principle and contributing to
the growing tension in one of the cru-cial
areas of our democracy.
"The quota, or numerous clauses, is
certainly un-American. It is European
in origin and application and we have
lately witnessed on that continent the
horrors to which, in its logical exten-sion,
it can lead. To insist that spe-cialists
in any field shall be limited by
ethnic groups and this assumption
America has never made except in the
case of its Negro population, where the
result is one of the plainest inconsis-tencies
with our national idea."
This is the reasoned conclusion of
a body of educators and public-minded
citizens ranging from President Sarah
G. Blanding of Vassar College to Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise.
Quotas Called Un-American
Speaking with fervor and vigor, they
denounce the quota system as a denial
of "the basic American belief that in-telligence
and ability are present in all
ethnic groups, that men of all religious
and racial origins should have equal
opportunity to fit themselves for con-tributing
to the common life.
)MMISSION HITS
TA SYSTEMS
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SYSTEM IN MANY AMERICAN
ally whacked by a Presidential Com-
Commission as those groups most often
in higher and professional education.
system as "certainly un-American," as
"Moreover," they state, "since the
quota system is never applied to all
groups in the Nation's population, but
only to certain ones, we are forced to
conclude that the arguments advanced
to justify it are nothing more than
rationalizations to cover either conveni-ence
or the disposition to discriminate.
"The quota system cannot be justified
on any grounds compatible with demo-cratic
principles."
On practical grounds, the loss of tal-ent
and trained intelligence, regarded
as the most precious natural resource
in a democracy, is concretely empha-sized.
Harm to Be Felt Later
In a field where the quota system is,
perhaps, preeminent, that of medicine,
an acute shortage of doctors will be felt
by 1960, the Commission reports. The
United States is expected to be 26,000
doctors short in that year, on the basis
of current demand. To meet "actual
and urgent need for better services,"
such as general practitioners in local
communities, an additional 30,000 doc-tors
are required. "Only a doubling in
annual output," stresses the Commission,
"will produce the needed 56,000 M.D.'s.
Where dentists are concerned, over 48,-
000 of them will have to complete their
training between 1950 and 1960. A
total of 24,000 graduates is estimated,
according to present enrollments. Only
a greatly expanded capacity of the
schools can meet the expected need.
"The time has come," strongly
recommends the Commission, "to make
public education at all levels equally
accessible to all, without regard to race,
creed, sex or national origin.
"America cannot afford to let any
of its potential human resources go
undiscovered and undeveloped."
Note: For those interested in the
full text of the report, Volume I is now
available from the U.S. Government
Printing Office in Washinton, at a cost
of 40 cents.
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of America, is having its annual
membership ball at the Grand Ballroom
of the Stevens Hotel on Saturday, De-cember
27.
Crowning of a membership queen
will be the outstanding event of the
evening.
Chicago Junior Hadassah will be cele-brating
with rededication the partition
and imminent Jewish State with this
membership Ball, which is one of the
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