Dr. ELSTAD. No; I wouldn't say all. I would say about 125 of those. Senator HILL. And you will be able to take only how many?

Dr. ELSTAD. From 60 to 70 of those. Because there are deaf graduates from hearing high schools who must be accommodated also. They come to us without special examination, and that is increasing as they find out that there is a Gallaudet College. Many of them do not know that there is a college like this.

Senator HILL. Do you find that your applications have increased through the years?

Dr. ELSTAD. Very much.

Senator POTTER. And this new construction program will enable you to handle how many more students.

Dr. ELSTAD. We have 285 now. It will enable us to take in from 500 to 700. That, we think, will satisfy the requests and requirements for all time, as we see it now.

Senator HILL. You say that it will satisfy the requirements, so far as you see them as of now?

Dr. ELSTAD. That is right.

Senator HILL. The House gave you what the budget recommended, which was pretty much what you had asked?

Dr. ELSTAD. That is right.

Senator HILL. Thank you, Doctor.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY

STATEMENTS OF MORDECAI W. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT; BRADSHAW MINTENER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR FEDERALSTATE RELATIONS; AND JAMES F. KELLY, BUDGET OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

APPROPRIATION ESTIMATE

Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of Howard University, including personal services and miscellaneous expenses and repairs to buildings and grounds, [$2,720,000] $3,000,000.

Howard University-Full-time equivalent enrollment, by schools and colleges, 1944-55

Construction of buildings: For alterations, revision, extension, and installation of underground telephone conduit for telephone distribution system, under the supervision of General Services Administration, on the grounds of Howard University, including engineering services, $122,000, to remain available until expended.

Senator HILL. Dr. Johnson, we will be delighted to have you proceed in your own way, sir.

Your prepared statement may be made a part of the record at this point.

(The statement referred to follows:)

STATEMENT BY MORDECAI W. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT, HOWARD UNIVERSITY A. THE NATURE OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND ITS PLACE IN AMERICAN HIGHER

EDUCATION

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: 1. Howard University was chartered by act of Congress on March 2, 1867. It was the purpose of the founders to admit students of both sexes, and of every race, creed, color, and national origin. But it was one of the major purposes of the founders to admit Negro youth, among others, to all of its educational offerings. The institution has pioneered in the offering of professional training to Negro youth in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, architecture, law, music, and social work, as well as in the teaching profession and religion.

2. During the period of Ɛ8 years between 1867 and 1955 Howard University has been the only university of public support in the Southern States which freely and substantially admitted Negro youth to any approximation of the wide scope of undergraduate, graduate and professional opportunities characteristic of the American State university.

3. During the entire 88 years of its history Howard University has graduated a larger body of Negro physicians, dentists, pharmacists, engineers, architects, musicians, lawyers, and social workers than all other universities of public support combined, in all the Southern States.

4. From the beginning of its work until the end of 1954, Howard University has graduated a total of 18,195 persons. By far the large majority of these graduates have been Negroes. These graduates are at work in 42 States and 24 foreign countries. In every population center in the United States they constitute a cross-section of the leadership of the Negro people. Together they constitute the largest and most diversified group of trained Negro public servants related to any single institution in the world.

5. Since 1948 public institutions in 12 Southern States, hitherto closed to Negroes, have little by little, opened their doors to Negro youth; but in the year 1954 Howard University still enrolled a larger number of Negro students in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, music, engineering, architecture, and social work than in all other public universities and colleges together in the entire area of the Southern States.