Show Girard Case One of the most significant court cases in US U.S. history may soon be decided by the Supreme Court Girard colI college e g e was I named after a French sailor who immigrated to the and made a fortune He died in 1831 and left a swill will which established established established a college for poor white orphans between the ages of six and ten years SOME YEARS ago the NAACP attempted to break the terms of the will contending t terms e r m s of admission constituted ille illegal g a I discrimination The college won the first court test Another ap approach approach approach ap- ap through a federal court was utilized and a federal judge recently ruled that the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia college must ad admit m i t Negro students The case Is to be appealed to the US U.S. Supreme Court and the decision may affect every private private private vate school in the nation For in effect what a federal judge ruled recently was that the private private private vate college cannot discriminate discriminate discriminate nate In admissions AMONG THE questions the case brings to a head ahead is whether wills can be broken Can one still select his beneficiary or beneficiaries Can one In other words discriminate minate In his will willas willas willas as as has been the universal practice Can the courts break the terms of the will of one who intentionally In Intentionally intentionally in- in and specifically designated des designated des I who should be admitted to the college his bequeath founded If they can force ad admission admission admission ad- ad mission of another race can they not force admission of ot fe females females females fe- fe males IT SEEMS to many that federal federal federal fed fed- eral regulation of ot individuals and private organizations has already been extended to considerable considerable considerable con con- lengths in a country which was founded on a the theme me of Individual liberty and freedom freedom free free- dom of choice |