The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-10-12
No COL0RED MEN ADMITTED.
NR. BiRBOSI AND THE COLLFGE or
pHl STtIiNS IND SURGEONS.
rrc.idcnt Aionzo CLARK, President barnard.
Dr. Nnrk"r. Dr. Dcianeid. aud Other Gen-
tiemcn on the Exciusion of the Porto Rican
student Opinion In Columbia College.

lecture in the college building. lie sald very
ooldly that he knew nothing about Barbosa.
But il is true. is it not. that the faculty de-
nicd MIR. Barbosa admission. and the public is
Interested in the reasons that governed themf
THE reasons yet more coldlSl that inilu-
enccd the faculty do not concern the pub
lie This college is independent Of any Legisla-
turc."
But Doctor. do you support the faculty in its
decision: :'
"That. certainly with Arctic frigidityl the
public has nothing to do with
This was all that DR.. Clark vouchsafcd in re-
gard to the action taken 10y himself and his
brother professors.
DR. Barnard. President Of Columbia College.
wn. at his home on the college grounds on
Wednesday evening. The College Of Physi-
cians and Surgeons is nominally branch of
Columbia University. and DR.. Barnard is con-
ocrncd in it, doings. for this reason as well ~
because he il one of its trustees Being re-
ou ,stcd 10 say what he thought Of the refusal to
admit Mr. Barbosa. the Porto Rcan medical
student. ou account Of the color Of his skin. the
Do0tor. ui-iakng the purport Of the question
qui kly eXa laimed:
"Nou are mistaken. sir No one was ever re-
fused ou account OF color There was no such
cas-.
Pardon me- Doctor. hut we have scen the
college authorities. and they admit the facts
anl stand upon the policy Of exclusion
You are mistaken ia the facts. repeat We
have no' excluded any one on account Of his
color. and we would not"
Il hav, reference. Doctor to the case of an
exclusion from the College of Physicians and
Surgeon not from the academic part of Coz
lumhia College
The President. finally becoming aware Of his
mi-approhcusion said that he had not heard Of
not know 'ha, such had been the policy oi the
medical faculty.
NJ such policy he said. is pursued in
Columh College itself. No person would be
r"iu-.i on account II his color. IL otherwise
nurl o. tltor \ colOrci student graduated
from th- college last year and his admission
W. opposed iy no member ~ the faculty. |
may .lt also. for the credit of the students that
hewa- u,vor molcstcd or interfered with by any
ON Will, iu the college"
DR. Barnard related in come tion with this
fa.t that he met the Rev Dr Haight. ono of the
trustee - Oolumhin College soon after the ap-
I..H'i.u ~ ,his student for admission, and
II .niini' 'l n" circumstance that su N nn nplli-
Nn'lpn rad been received from colurcl per
sIu hr llaEAt quickly and abruptly in
Wi . was the result" anl. on being in.
fpru"i 'nW the young man had been admitted,
SAL iini lo wa glad Of it. and that h. would
'f'"l boz lined 10 put out Of the college, any
member of the IA 'ulty who should try 10 keep
us'ul 'fi nAi on account of his color
What - your opinion, Doctor n to This on
tr"y different action on the part Of the medical
hardly ,Ank ought to pas, judgment
H. t1i will ,h,' li''i,o ,rf Witch t,r"si1e ns
in- one T.. ami which. again i indepanient If
any control from ps. Perhaps ought not TO
70 ,-ir',ii- j. a1astion in which the puili.
+ Interested and it ti- iesiirou- Of knowing how
Ml,I I. - therefore. ask whether you approve
Won ItIink Won may inf,r what per.ou-
aivtnInN Ny ms ropN that we would hot TAX,
mo, can i. ~ ,rni Ii' ,an do' vla, .iy
may b. .mrl,l from, that
Thr H. ,,r ti,'n WHIT ON to .av that tho Col.
l.cnof IHv-lclHus and Surgeons il i'm faei An
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