Atlanta Daily World

Lincoln Univ. Grads
Enter Med Schools

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. -

According to figures recently published by the Association of American Medical Colleges, sixteen graduates of Lincoln University were admitted to American Medical Schools in 1954. Three were admitted to foreign medical schools.

The total - nineteen - sets a new annual record for graduates of this small Pennsylvania College long famous for its production of ministers and physicians for medical school admissions in any one year. Enrolling only one third of one-percent of all Negroes in American colleges, Lincoln continues to contribute from seven to eight percent - 25 times its numerical expectation - to the select group of medical college admittees. (One of the 1954 admittees was a white graduate).

Medical schools admitting Lincoln graduates in 1954 were Howard, Meharry, George Washington, Hahnemann, and Temple, in the United States; and abroad, the Universities of Geneva (Switzerland), Beirut (Lebanon), and Amsterdam (Holland). Long confined principally to Howard and Meharry, Lincoln graduates have within the past ten years been admitted to eighteen different American and eight foreign medical schools.

In addition to those admitted to medical schools, eight Lincoln men were admitted to schools of dentistry, and three to schools of veterinary medicine, in 1954, to make a total of thirty admitted to studies for the doctorate in medicine, dentistry, and veterinary science.