Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              FROMt  Meier Steinbrink. Chairman Board of Directors  FCR IJ&EDIATE RELEASE
Eastern Regional Office
Anti-Defamation League Tuesday, February 6, 1945
212 Fifth Avenue
Mew York City 10
Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink, as Chairman of the Board of
Direotors of the Eastern Region of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,
today charged that Dr. Harlan H. Horner, Secretary of tho Council on Dental
Education of the American Dental Association, submitted a confidential report
to Chancellor Harry VT. Chase, of New York University, urging a reduction in
the number of Jewish students tc be adnitted to tho College of Dentistry of
that institution.  Justice Steinbrink made public an affidavit by Dr. Harry M.
Scldin, President of the Alumni Association of the New York University College
of Dentistry, quoting the language of the report.  At the same timo he called
upon Columbia Uni\ersity, Hew York University and the American Dental Association to repudiate the reports made by Dr. Homer.
Dr. Soldin stated in his affidavit tliat the confidential report contained the following languages
"Admission., ...Viewed broadly, however, it must bo noted that the
student body is made up overwnolmingly, of one racial strain, und
is not even a cross section of the various racial groups to be
found in Greater New York. 1'oroovor, tho greater proportion of
tho students are prepared in a limited nunbor of local liberal
arts colleges.  A certain narrowness of outlook and rigidity of
mind must inevitably rts.lt. The institution is provincial and
parochial to a high degree. The environment of tho college may
moke this situation unavoidable, and yet a college of dentistry
located in tho great city of How York, under the auspices of a
distinguished University, might serve the entire profession more
i ffr.ctivfly if it undertook to reoruit its students from a larger
group of representative liberal arts colleges, fron  more extensive
geographical areas, and from more diversified racial {"roups.
"Facultyt ...It was pointed out undor the discussion of the admission
procedures , that the students came from a limited number of liberal
arts colleges in a restricted area, and represent nainly only one of
tho racial strains of greater New York. This is also mainly true of
the i acuity.  It almost amounts to a species of educational autointoxication."
Dr. Seldin declared.,  "The phrase 'one racial strain' means Jew ish
students. Until tho issuance or adoption of this roport, there had been no
policy of discrimination at liew York University Dental College."
It was learned by the League, a department of the B'nai B'rith, America
oldest and largest Jewish service orga nization, that Dr. Allan T. Newman, for
fifteen years Dean of the New York Univorsity Dental College, had resigned immediately after the Horner report was submitted. Further, so far as the League was
able to ascertain. New York University did not reject the Horner recommendation.
A special report, issued to Columbia University, by the Council on
Dental Education, urged similar discriminatory policy in regard to admissions at
that institution.