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Thus began a newsworthy document which President James Lukens McConaughy last week sent to the two dozen Jewish undergraduates of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn. Set forth were prime facts & figures about medical schools, Jews and Gentiles...
...above facts explain," President McConaughy, a tolerant Congregationalist at the head of a tolerant Methodist college, went on to elaborate, "why it is difficult for Wesleyan to place her graduates of the Jewish race in medical schools. It should be apparent that in selecting its freshmen each medical school will feel some degree of responsibility for the graduates of the institution with which it is associated, and it therefore is impelled to accept the promising applicants within its own borders. It is now quite generally admitted that, after that selection has been made, very little room is left for Jewish...
...have no desire to discourage you in your hope for a medical career, but feel that it is only fair that you should know the circumstances. We have been disturbed at the difficulties which some of our students, even after a very good Wesleyan record, have encountered in the last few years in securing admission to medical school...
Partisans of such fame as Norman Thomas, Hamilton Fish, and Stanley Baldwin will speak on the subject of political philosophies at the eleventh annual parley of Wesleyan University to be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December...
...some as small as peas, falling from outer space. It has been night for two and a half months at Little America, base camp of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and sometimes the air is extraordinarily clear. At such favorable times Dr. Thomas Charles Poulter, on leave from Iowa Wesleyan College, has had a crew of men recording meteors. Four men sit hour after hour inside a glass dome mounted in the roof of a shack. When one spies a falling star he barks "Time!" and a recorder with a stopwatch makes an entry of the hour, minute and second...