Politicos Dispute Acceptance of 'Anglo-Saxon' Scholarship Legacy

Some College political clubs grumbled yesterday over the Medical School's $200,000 scholarship fund "preferably for applicants of Anglo-Saxon ancestry," but the groups split over whether the University was right in accepting it.

Walter C. Carrington '52, president of the Society for Minority Rights, stated that the new fund would contribute to racial discrimination. He said his organization would meet to discuss the matter soon and probably would issue a formal protest.

Liberal Union president M. Joel Mandelbaum '53 said members of the H.L.U. felt the clause was discriminatory and unfortunate. But, he said, they were divided about whether the gift should have been accepted and the club was not now planning to take any action on the matter.

The University was wise to accept the gift, according to Gordon L. Poole '47, 2L, Young Republican Club president. Although the wording of the bequest is bad, he explained, the University can accept the fund without compromising its principles of non-discrimination.

The fund in dispute is a bequest from the estate of Mary Elliott Day; by the terms of the will it is called the Russell Dunson Elliott Scholarship Fund.