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AMERICA'S FIRST
NON-SECTARIAN UNI-
VERSITY UNDER
JEWISH AUSPICES

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VOLUMEI, No. 1

MARCH, 1947

NEW ENGLAND TO LAUNCH BRANDEIS U.
WITH ALBERT EINSTEIN BIRTHDAY DINNER

All-Out Support For Nations
First Jewish School Shown In
Response To Somerset Meeting

HONORED AT BOSTON DINNER

NOT TOO LATE TO MAKE RESERVATIONS
Reservations for the Albert Einstein Dinner for
Brandeis University may still be made by tele-
phone. If you have not already reserved your seat
at the dinner by mail, be sure to call LAFayette
6940 to do so. This is New England's opportunity
to welcome Brandeis University and to give Pro-
fessor Albert Einstein an overwhelming vote of
confidence. Let us all be on hand. Remember the
time, date and place: 6:00 P.M.; Thursday, March
20th; Hotel Somerset.

SUSAN BRANDEIS, EINSTEIN. ALPERT, LAZRUS.
GROSSMAN, RABBI WEINBERG, RABB TO SPEAK

More than five hundred Jewish leaders, representing all
sections of New England, will gather on Thursday, March 20,
at the Hotel Somerset in Boston to launch the nation's cam-
paign for Brandeis University.

This was announced by George Alpert, President of the
University's Board of Trustees, who indicated also that the

response to invitations for
this dinner-meeting has
been "overwhelming."

He declared that the
original estimate of five
hundred people expected
to participate may have
to be revised considerably
upward. "The Hotel
Somerset would have to
have the seating capacity
of the Boston Garden,"
he said, "if we were to
accommodate the great
number who have shown
enthusiasm for our proj-
ect." Mr. Alpert also
urged those members of
the Jewish community
who have not yet returned
their reservation requests
to do so at once in order

MAX R. GROSSMAN

to assure .seatmg.
Among the speakers will be Susan Brandeis Gilbert, noted
New York lawyer and daughter of the late Supreme Court
Justice, after whom the University has been named : Nonnan
S. Rabb, vice-president of the Stop and Shop Supermarkets,
Inc.; Professor Max R. Grossman, director of Boston Univer-
sity's School of Journalism; Rabbi Dudley Weinberg: S. Ralph
Lazrus, President of The Albert Einstein Foundation, Inc.;
and Mr. Alpert. Professor Einstein is also expected to speak.

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Brandeis University

HATS OFF TO NEW ENGLAND

An Editarial

Last Friday, March 14, marked the sixty-
eighth birthday of the eminent scientist, Dr.
Albert Einstein. It is significant that the Jewish
community of New England has decided to honor
Dr. Einstein on this occasion by conducting a
dinner-meeting on behalf of a project close to his
heart, Brandeis University.

The white-haired physicist, whose name is
familiar to every American, every Jew, and in-
deed most citizens of the world, has contributed
immeasurably to the progress of civilization. His
immortality is assured. It is characteristic, how-
ever, that the great never seek retirement. Thus,
Dr. Einstein's researches in atomic energy con-
tinue unabated. Thus, also, he finds the time and
a sufficient amount of his personal energy to give
Brandeis University the start in life it eminently
deserves.

Significant also is the fact that New England
has taken the lead in the great effort to establish
our nation's first secular university under Jewish
auspices. Since the Bay State was known as the
Colony of Massachusetts Bay, educational and
cultural pursuit has been a weighty factor in its
progress. That entire general area is known
throughout the world as the "cultural cradle of
America." A Boston newspaper said: "We are
honored that The Albert Einstein Foundation,
Inc., has selected Waltham, Massachusetts, as the
site for Brandeis University. And, rightfully, we
will pay tribute to Dr. Einstein on March 20th
by welcoming and heartily endorsing this, his
latest — and we believe greatest — contribution
to humanity."

FIRST GROUND BROKEN

BREAKING GROUND for new buildings at the 100-acre Wal-
tham campus of Brandeis University is this big power shovel.
The charming young lady being assisted into the operator's
compartment is 18-year-old Alice Brandeis Gilbert, only grand-
daughter of the man for whom the institution has been named —
the late United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz
Brandeis. Assisting the Radcliffe sophomore is George Alpert,
prominent Boston lawyer and president of the Board of Trustees
of Brandeis U. This dramatic photograph was taken during a
recent press tour of the hillside campus. Since then, concrete
foundations have been poured, and construction work has nearly
been completed on two buildings donated by the government.

NAMES NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIASi

Maurice J. Bernstein, chairman of the New England Asi iai:
the names of the Jewish leaders of Massachusetts and i df,
The listing below excludes the Operating Committee, whose eitt

Jack Ansin
Ralph F. Bass
S. J. Beckwith
Walter H. Bieringer
Morris Borkum
Morris Braff
Dr. Altxandcr Brin
Dr. Joseph G. Biin
Jacob Buxbaum
Edward L. Chester
Harry Cline
Edward Cohen

Edward E. Cohen
Henry G. Cohen
John E. Daniels
Morris Gordon
Mark .\. Edison
Sol Fechtor
Samuel W. Fleishcr
Simon Friedman
Robert Friedman
Joseph N. Gibbs
John Garfield
.\lbert H. Ginsburg

Myer Ginsburg
A. Murray Ginzberg
Hyman Gondelman
Robert Goldstein
Harnett D. Gordon
Ellis Gordon
William Gordon
Peter Groper
Max Hoffman
Kivic Kaplan
Charles Kemler
Hans J. Kroto

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FAR FLUNG FAME

The fame of Brandeis University has spread literally
all over the world. The Registrar's office at Waltham re-
ports it has been "inundated" by applications from pros-
pective students and by letters of inquiry from points as
far distant as Japan, the Belgian Congo, Palestine, Hawaii,
Latin American and Canada.

The Japanese queries came from American GI's in
the U. S. Army occupation forces; that from the Congo,
in Equatorial Africa, was from the son of a Russian
now residing there.

Many come from veterans of World War II, among
them men already holding degrees from leading colleges,
including Harvard.

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neighboring States who comprise his committee,
mbers are named elsewhere in this issue.

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A. Lippman
Loew
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id D. Markson
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rd A. Nathanson
I anuicl H. Proger

Sidney R. Rabb
Joseph Rabinovitz
Edward Rose
Arthur Rosen
Louis Rosen
Isidore Rosenberg
Jack Sandler
Samuel Sandler
Myer Saxe
Samuel D. Saxe
Morton Selig
Jack Shain

Alexander Shapiro
Frank Shapiro
A. M. Slater
Louis P. Smith
S. Robert Stone
Irving Usen
Albert H. Wechsler
Joseph Weinstein
Max E. Wind
Rudolph H. Wyner
Henry Yozell
Abraham Zimhle

Picturesque Campus Awaits

Official College Opening

The 100 acres comprising the Brandeis University campus in
Waltham was, prior to 1928, the estate of one Dr. Baker. It contained
then only residences and some farm buildings. The site, which over-
looks the winding Charles River, also is near the Fitchburg division
of the Boston & Maine railroad, and is not far from the railroad's
Roberts station. Its altitude, together with the famous "castle," makes
it one of the landmarks for the countryside, being visible for miles.

When it was taken over by Middlesex University — the formal,
official switch to the present name of Brandeis is expected momen-
tarily — work was begun immediately on the Norman-Gothic type
of structure known popularly as the "castle." Its massive, two-foot
thick walls were made of native fieldstone, taken from the rocky

glacial outcroppings so familiar in

New England.

The "castle," which really is
a sort of quadrangle containing
nine buildings, has several large,
airy classrooms and laboratories
with excellent acoustic qualities.
Work progressed on the "castle"
through the depression years of
the 'thirties. Ten years were re-
quired to complete it, and the cost,
for that and other smaller build-
ings, was over one million dollars.

Oldest building on the Brandeis
campus is the library, converted
during the war from a building
on the original Dr. Baker estate.
It has a splendid although small
library on medicine, veterinary
medicine and the general arts.

In 1940 the 2/'.:-story veterinary
medicine building, with adjoining
facilities, was built. This was fol-
lowed in 1941 by the Small .\nimal
Hospital.

Vo be seen on the campus now
is a cluster of trailers. These house
World War 11 veterans, students
■ ager for an education, making
their homes there with their wives
and children. One ambitious vet
ingeniously converted a former
Boston El bus into living facilities.

Brandeis University is considered
fortunate to have acquired the pic-
turesque buildings and grounds
comprising the campus. The esti-
mated valuation of the property
at current market is set at between
two and three million dollars. It
is also regarded as fortunate that
the campus is within twelve miles
of Boston, one of the nation's large
cosmopolitan centers, and affords
access to the libraries and other
facilities of a number of leading
educational institutions.

' A WAITING FOR TENANT
might be the eye-catching
slogan on this attractive brick
dwelling on the Brandeis Uni-
versity campus. It may be
used as living quarters, fac-
ulty club, or serve some other
useful purpose. The spacious,
fireproof residence is situated
on the south side of the
Waltham campus, near the
library. In all, some twelve
buildings have been acquired
from the former Middlesex
University. The majority are
in Norman-gothic architec-
ture. It is not anticipated,
however, that the new struc-
tures will follow that style.

DINNER

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Members of the Operating Commit-
tee of the New England Associates of
Brandeis University, sponsors of the
dinner, include besides Mr. Alpert:
Maurice J. Bernstein, chairman, and
James J. Axelrod, Robert P. Cable,
Joseph Ford, Joseph Foster, Meyer
JafTe, Joseph M. Lindsey, Moses Lubets,
Pinchos Medwed, Norman S. Rabb,
Sidney H. Rabinowitz, Mendell Selig,
Abraham Shapiro, Morris Shapiro,
Max Slater, Dewey Stone, Hon. Harry
K. Stone and Louis Zimble.

BRANDEIS HAD CONSUMING
INTEREST IN EDUCATION

The late United States Supreme
Court Justice, after whom America's
first secular university under Jewish
auspices has been named, had an avid
and consuming interest in this nation's
education. His great deeds on behalf of
Harvard's School of Law and the Uni-
versity of Louisville, Kentucky, attest
that fact.

His immortal words
spoken many years ago
with reference to the
university of his native
State, are considered
by the Directors of The
Albert Einstein Foun-
dation, Inc., particu-
larly applicable to the
institution being estab-
lished at Waltham. He
declared at that time:

"There is a large
field for the efforts of
those outside the Uni-
versity whose capacity,
experience and posi-
tion give them a wider
view and bolder vision ;
whose position enables
them to secure for the
University's projects,
the approval and sup-
port of the community,
and whose means en-
able them to render
financial aid. From
them may come also
the encouragement
without which few per-
severe in the most
painstaking labors."

REVEALS PLANS FOR N. Y. C.
DINNER TO AID BRANDEIS

Affair To Be Fashioned After Thursday
Boston Event; Nathan To Speak

S. Ralph Lazrus, president of The Albert Einstein Foundation, Inc., and one of
the speakers at the forthcoming Albert Einstein Birthday Dinner in Boston, has
announced that New York City plans a similar meeting on behalf of Brandeis
University late this spring. The date has tentatively been set as June 10th, with the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel selected as the place.

According to Mr.
Lazrus, the Jewish
leaders of New York
are observing with
great interest the
progress which is
being made in New
England, in antici-
pation of fashioning
their meeting after
the one being held
at the Somerset next
Thursday.

Scheduled to
speak at the June
dinner is Dr. Otto
Nathan, noted edu-
cator and Professor
of Economics at
New York Univer-
sity and Howard
University. Dr.
Nathan, a member
of the Board of
Directors of The Albert Einstein Foun-
dation, Inc., is a close friend of the
eminent scientist after whom the Foun-
dation has been named. He also serves
on the Educational Advisory Commit-
tee, whose job it is to decide the poli-
cies, program and curricula of the new
university, as well as to select the presi-
dent and to propose the faculty.

Hershfield Toastmaster

Mr. Lazrus also stated that Harry
Hershfield, noted cartoonist, public
speaker, and star of the radio show,
"Can You Top This," will act as toast-
master.

SHAPIRO SETS PACE

Abraham Shapiro, well known Boston
shoe and rubber manufacturer, has set
the pace for that city's contributors to
Brandeis University by donating to this
institution the sum of $50,000. Mr.
Shapiro, a philanthropist and commu-
nal leader of long standing, is an avid
worker in the interests of Waltham's
new educational institution. He is a
sponsor of The Albert Einstein Founda-
tion, Inc., and a charter member of the
New England Associates of Brandeis
University.

S. KALl'H LAZRUS

DR. OTTO NATHAN

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VOLUME I, No. 2

APRIL, 1947

NEW YORKERS PLAN BRANDEIS CAMPAIGN

June 5th Dinner At
Waldorf-Astoria Set

Einstein Foundation Board Members attend New York planning lunciieon at the Hotel
Pierre, (left to right) Julius Silver, treasurer, Milton J. Bluestein and Dr. Otto Nathan.

I\ew England Gives $1,000,000;
600 Attend Somerset Dinner

The world's favorite topic of conver-
sation may be strictly a matter of specu-
lation, hut there's no question about
the number one item of discussion in
New England. It's Brandeis University,
way up front.

In a series of events on behalf of the
new educational institution, climaxed
by the recent dinner at the Hotel Som-
erset, New England Jewry evidenced its
understanding of the need and its en-
thusiasm by donating and ]jledging
$1,000,000.'

The Albert Einstein Birthday Dinner
for Brandeis University, chief among
the functions in New England, saw the
ballroom of the Somerset at over-
flowing. Six hundred Jewish leaders
jammed the meeting and made known
their pledges of support. Among those
who spoke were Susan Brandeis, daugh-
ter of the late U. S. Supreme Court
Justice, whose name the University
bears: George Alpert. Boston attorney
and |:)rcsident of The Albert Einstein
Foundation: Max R. Grossman, direc-
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NEW YORK ASSOCIATES
TO CONDUCT CAMPAIGN

Fifty New York City leaders of Jewish
and philanthropic affairs met Tuesday.
.\pril 22, at 12:30 P.M., at the Hotel
Pierre, to begin this city's campaign for
Brandeis University. Conducted by The
.A.lbert Einstein Foundation, sponsoring
bod\ of America's first non-sectarian
university under Jewish auspices, the
meeting outlined a course of action for
the local campaign, to culminate with
a dinner at the AValdorf-Astoria Hotel,
June 5th.

Among the speaki-rs were: Susan Brandeis
Gilbert, daughter of the late United States
Supreme Court Justice after whom the uni-
versity was named : S. Ralph Lazrus, presi-
dent of The .Mbert Einstein Foundation;
George .Mpert, president of the university's
Board of Trustees; and Dr. Otto Nathan,
Professor of Economics at .\'ew York Uni-
versity. Dr. Nathan, representing Professor
Einstein on the Foundation's Board of Direc-
tors, described the scientist's great interest
in the project and explained that commit-
ments at Princeton made it impossible for
the physicist to attend.

One of the meeting's highlights was the
formation of the .New York .Associates of
Brandeis University. This group will func-
tion as the representatives of New York
City's Jewry in planning the programs and
policies for the new educational institution.

Mr. .Alpert reported on the reception
given to Brandeis University by New Eng-
land's Jewish leaders at a recent meeting in
Boston. (See Column 1, Page I.) In de-
scribing the institution's aims, Mr. .Mpert
declared: "We Jews want a place in the
family of .Ameiiran universities. Just as
Columbia was founded by Episcopalians,
Harvard by Congregationalists, Haverford
by Quakers, Notre Dame by Catholics —
why not Brandeis by the Jews. With our own
university, our sons and daughters will be
able to enter with dignity and equality the
univrrsity of their choice, whether it be
Brandeis or an\' other."

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Einstein Explains Need For

THE BOSTON HERALD SAYS . . .

The following editorial is reprinted from one of
New England's leading newspapers, published on the
occasion of Albert Einstein's sixty-eighth birthday, March
14, 1947.

Albert Einstein is 68 years old today. And
next week, on Thursday, the New England Asso-
ciates of Brandeis University will honor him at a
dinner in Boston. This, the first Jewish-sponsored,
secular university to be established in America,
will be situated at nearby Waltham. In addition
to being the leading sponsor of the university idea.
Dr. Einstein is heading the Brandeis University
Educational Advisory Committee, which will decide
upon the curricula, faculty, and other critical ele-
ments of this institution of higher learning.

Although Dr. Einstein is brought closer to
Bostonians by his association with the university
project at Waltham, his is a brain so great, a per-
sonality and background so unusual, that he defies
the comprehension of ordinary mortals. Few can
ever get near him in the sense of real understand-
ing. Even his friend and associate, Phillip Frank,
whose new biography comes nearest to explaining
the man ("Einstein, His Life and Times," Knopf),
shows evidences at several points of having been
confused himself over certain aspects of the physi-
cist's life and thinking. For Einstein, master of
the unknown, is rather unknowable himself.

But if his contributions to science are on such
a high plane as to make him inaccessible to the av-
erage citizen, everyone of us, especially those who
at one time or another were inclined to think of the
"Einstein Theory" as just a useless exercise in
mathematics, should say thanks for a letter he
wrote to the late President Roosevelt on Aug. 2,
1939, telling him about a new kind of bomb which,
if exploded in a port, "might very well destroy
the whole port, together with the surrounding
territory." Not only had Dr. Einstein's "theoriz-
ing" played a basic part in the thinking which led
to the development of atomic energy, but he is the
man we have to thank for alerting our own gov-
ernment to its danger. Out of his warning came
the Manhattan Project and a quicker end to the
Pacific war than anyone dreamed possible.

So Boston can well salute a great man and
wish well to Brandeis University which the scien-
tist calls with true affection, "my darling baby."

PICTORIAL: A UNIVERSITY

THE NAME IS .VIADE OFFICIAL as Mass. Governor Robert F.

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EINSTEIN .MEETS with New England Brandeis leaders. Left t(
George Alpert, Professor Einstein, S. Ralph Lazrus, Norman S. R
James J. Axelrod, Barnett D. Gordon, Robert P. Cable, Yoland 1)

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FORMATION SCIENTIST ADVOCATES "SELF HELP" FOR MINORITIES

Following are excerpts from a speech delivered via transcription by Albert
Einstein at tlie meeting of the Ne:v England Associates of Brandeis University,
Hotel Somerset, Boston.

IS DEMBITZ BRANDEIS from a Ha-
sh portrait of the late Justice by Comins.

! i^ht (front row): Abraham Shapiro,
U; (back row): Sidney H. Rabinowitz,
) kson and Irving Usen.

"Though devoted to high ideals for
mankind as a whole, we [Jews] must
spend much of our efforts in the de-
fense of our own endangered group, if
we do not want to perish by the time
the ideals of mankind are accomplished.
In this connection we should keep in
mind one fact: The majority is less dis-
turbed by antiquated prejudices than
the minority which is suffering more
from them.

"That is why the great ideals for man-
kind take root more easily in a minority —

FALL RIVER - NEW BEDFORD
GROUP PLANS B.U. DINNER

Formation of The Fall River - New
Hcdford Associates of Brandeis Univer-
sity is announced by Meyer Jafl'e of
Fall River, chairman, and Fisher
Abramson of New Bedford, co-chair-
man.

An Operating Committee of the local
regional associates, which met several
days ago at the home of Mr. JafTe,

MEYER JAFFE

formulated plans for a dinner to be held
at the Hotel Mellen, Fall River, the
evening of Thursday, May 22. Among
the speakers, it was disclosed, will be
George Alpert.

Besides Mr. Jaffe and Mr. .\bramson, mem-
bers of the Operating tlommittee attending
the organizational meeting included: Myer
N. Sobiloff, Sydney S. Feinberg, Joseph A.
Oohen, Benjamin Twersky, Benjamin Green,
Harry Gottlieb, Henry Mason, Rabbi Samuel
Ruderman, and William List, all of Fall
River; and Dr. Hanunon L. Wollison of
X<w Bedford.

.Also on the Operating Committee, but
unable to attend the recent meeting, are
Edward .\daskin and David I. Schneierson.

at least superficially. This often causes the
individual to forget or even passionately to
deny that he belongs to a minority group and
to attach himself to the majority which,
however, does not appreciate his attitude
and rejects it. He consequently finds himself
in a state of internal insecurity and loneli-
ness, which is caused by his own conduct
and not, as he assumes, by the mistakes of
the group from which he tries to separate
himself. Thus a situation develops which we
usually call the inferiority complex of mi-
norities — a situation that seriously en-
dangers the dignity and self-respect of the
individual.

Soul Searching Needed

"If you look around you, you will find
many victims of our internal peril. Do you
remember the distinguished Jewish scientist
who was awarded the Nobel-prize and who
was resentful because his name was listed
among the Jewish Nobel-prize winners?
Those among us who, because of the success
of their work come into closer contact with
the majority, are in particularly great dan-
ger. For our group as a whole this tendency
means a serious impoverishment. I do not
intend to voice any accusations, but I do
want to suggest that genuine soul-searching
is greatly needed.

"From this internal peril there is, in my
opinion, only one escape. To hold fast to the
ideals for mankind and, at the same time,
to cooperate in the defense of our endan-
gered group to the best of our ability. Let
us consider the university project from this
point of view.

From Practical Point of View

"It is one of the most important concerns
of our group that our youth be offered an
intellectual education of the very highest
standard. This is necessary in order to raise
our intellectual level to the best of our
ability, but it is also necessary from a prac-
tical point of view. As a result of the pressure
which our group is subjected to and which
restricts our occupational opportunities, we
have been concentrating to a large degree
on intellectual professions towards which we
lean anyhow because of our traditions. This
is why a relatively large number of our
young people tries to be admitted to univer-
sities. Consequently, these institutions which
are all in the hands of the majority, adopt
a defensive attitude — known, though not
officially admitted, as the quota system. This
is not meant to be a criticism but merely an
honest description of a situation and of its
origin. gg,f jjgjp

"Effective remedy can be secured only
through self help. We must attempt to cre-
ate opportunities for higher intellectual edu-
cation, at least for a part of our young
people. In this way the number of youngsters
seeking admission to e.xisting universities will
decline, which will iniprove our moral situa-
tion there; at the same time we shall make
a contribution to the institutions of higher
learning of this country which indirectly will
benefit the whole community. This will be
particularly true if we succeed in the im-
provement of educational methods and ad-
ministrative organization — problems which
are being studied seriously all over the
countrv."

Brandeis Has Alumnus

HIGHLIGHT OF BOSTON DINNER w
Abraham Shapiro, Hub philanthropist, as "
of Brandeis University. Pictured with him
left; and S. Ralph Lazrus, right.

NEW ENGLAND

(Continued from page one)

tor of Boston University School ol
Journalism ; Rabbi Dudley Weinberg of
Temple Ohabei Shalom: Norman S.
Rabb, well-known Boston business man :
and Edward Nathanson, Boston attor-
ney. Professor Einstein addressed the
meeting by transcription. A resume of
his remarks is contained on Page 3.

As New England's Jewish leaders
announced their gifts, Mr. Alpert de-
clared: "Our purpose in establishing
Brandeis University is not as an answer
to academic anti-Semitism. I prefer to
look upon this project as an affirmative
expression by the Jews of America of
their contribution to American culture.
Too frequently it is said that Jews do
not financially support the institutions
which they attend as students. I believe
this criticism is thoroughly unfair and
unfounded."

Endowments

On March 28th, Henry Penn, dis-
tinguished citizen of Boston, was hon-
ored by Tcm]}le Ohabi Shalom, by the
establishment of a fund in his name for
Brandeis University. This fund will be
applied toward endowing the new in-
stitution, and was presented on the oc-
casion of the prominent Bostonian's
seventieth birthday. In accepting this
gift, Mr. Penn, because of his enthu-
siasm for the ideal of Brandeis Univer-
sity, broke a lifelong rule of never
accepting gifts of any kind.

At a family gathering honoring the
eightieth birthday of Mrs. Max Axelrod,
Boston's "grand old lady" was respon-
sible for a $5,000 donation made by her

as the naming of
Honorary Alumnus"
are: George Alpert,

EINSTEIN SETS FORTH POLICIES

hi the folloiving paragraph, excerpted from his
Boston speech, Alarch 20th, Albert Einstein deseribcd
the university's aims:

"We have named the projected institution
'Brandeis-University' and have thus stated our
firm intention that it shall be a genuinely liberal
institution. Everybody who has previously ac-
quired adequate education and has the necessary
mental equipment shall be admitted as a student.
To strive for knowledge and truth shall be the
only guiding principle of teaching. The faculty
shall decide on basic educational issues in collabo-
ration with academic advisers: the individual
member of the faculty, however, shall be given
complete freedom in his teaching and research.
The faculty shall make nominations for new ap-
pointments which will be subject to the approval
by the Board of Trustees. The Board shall be
responsible for the business management of the
institution. The Board will be composed of respon-
sible Jewish men and women, a guarantee that
the principles upon which the foundation of the
university is based will be maintained and per-
petuated in years to come."

son, James J. Axelrod. in her name.
This brought to a total of $25,000 the
amount pledged by Mr. Axelrod to the
new university.

Scholarships

Also from the Hub city, word is re-
ceived of a $5,000 scholarship endow-
ment for first-year women students at
Brandeis University. This was estab-
lished by the Women's Scholarship
.Association on the occasion of their
fortieth anniversary luncheon. A check
in payment was presented on A]jril 1 7th
to Miss Alice Brandeis Gilbert, eight-
een-year-old Radcliffe sophomore and
granddaughter of the late Justice
Brandeis.

The New Century Club of the same
city has appointed a Scholarship Com-
mittee under its president. Colonel
Bernard L. Gorfinkle, to establish a
scholarship for the Waltham institu-
tion.

Contributions Announced

Among the donors of contributions,
already announced, of $5,000 and up to
the million dollar total, in New England
are: Abraham Shapiro. $50,000; Meyer
Jafife, $30,000; James J. Axelrod. Mau-
rice J. Bernstein. Joseph Ford, Joseph
Foster, Yoland D. Markson, Alexander
Shapiro, Morris Shapiro, Hon. Harry
K. and Dewey Stone. $25,000 each;
Samuel D. and Meyer Saxe, $20,000;
Barnett D. Gordon and an anonymous
contributor, $15,000 each; Morris Bor-
kum, Robert P. Cable, Hyman Gondel-
man, Sidney H. Rabinowitz. Jack and
Samuel Sandler, Irving Usen, Max E.
Wind, Abraham and Louis Zimble.
$10,000 each; Henry G. Cohen and
brother, $7,500; Max Shoolman,

$6,000 ; George Alpert, Jack and Meyer
.\nsin. Max Chernis. Herman B. and
Jack Cohen, I. Ginsberg Family, Robert
Goldstein, Peter Groper, Simon J.
Helman, Eli Jacobson, Charles Kemler,
the Levin Family (Mrs. Colman Levin) ,
Joseph M. Linscy, E. M. Loew, Moses
Lubets, Fred Monosson, Louis H.
Salvage, Schwartz Family (Irving
Schwartz). Morton Selig, Joseph Wein-
stein, $5,000, each.

NEW YORK

(Continued from page one)

Mrs. Gilbert welcomed those present and
asserted that her late father would have been
wholly in accord with the objectives of the
university which bears his name. .\ member
of the New York State Board of Regents
for many years, Mrs. Gilbert added that she,
personally, is "giving her wholehearted en-
dorsement and unqualified support to the
undertaking."

Dr. Nathan described the basis upon
which the university will be opened as one
which will reflect "the true spirit of de-
mocracy. ' He said that a group of leading
educators is currently engaged in the work
of formulating the constitution for the school,
and added that the president will soon be
selected. He stated: "Brandeis University
will be neither a mass education factory,
nor a ghettoized school. It will be open to
all on the sole basis of mental equipment,
regardless of sex, color, creed, national ori-
gin or political opinion. It will typify a
generally democratic and generally civilized
community in its search for truth and abiding
faith in equality."

Mr. Lazrus said that the climax of this
city's campaign would occur with the June
5th dinner at the Waldorf-.^storia. He said
he was certain "that New York City would
bear its full responsibility in meeting the
national goal of $15,000,000 for the estab-
lishment of .America's first non-sectarian,
Jewish-sponsored university."

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Supported by

THE BRANDEIS

FOUNDATION, INC.

245 Fifth Ave.

New York 16

Murray Hill
3-7714

AMERICAS FIRST NON-SECTARIAN UNIVERSITY UNDER JEWISH AUSPICES

VOLUME II, No. 1

JULY, 1947

GROSSMAN DISCUSSES ACADEMIC ASPECTS

Dorms And Library
To Be Built First

by MAX K. GROSSMAN, Provost

The task ahead is exciting and fas-
cinating. Brandcis University will open
in the fall of 1948 with a freshman class
comprising many of the top graduates
of the nation's secondary schools.

We shall assemble at Waltham a dis-
tinguished faculty, made up largely of
young men and women of great expe-
rience, of abounding love for learning,
of enduring and endearing interest in
young people.

Our faculty will comprise persons
who, within a few years, will be the
leaders in their specialities. Our great-
est interest, after checking on academic

About Our Provost

You will be seeing' and hearing a
good deal of Professor Max R.
Grossman, our newly appointed
Provost. Turn to the back page and
meet him. ^

background, will be to assemble a group
of people who are pre-eminent teachers.

Before the college of arts and sciences
opens as the first undergraduate unit of
Brandeis University, we shall have a
Faculty Institute on the campus. There,
for approximately one month, the fac-
ulty will meet daily to get acquainted
with each other; to outline academic
procedures; to prepare for the adven-
ture that lies ahead.

The facilities at Waltham today are
such that with minor alterations, we
could hold classes even now. Our cam-
pus is magnificent and the nine build-
ings which stand there are impressive
and enchanting. During the coming
year, we shall erect dormitories for 300
students. Also, we shall build a beautiful
library and will assemble nearly 2.")0.000
volumes to constitute a preliminary col-
lection. The library building will, ac-
cording to plans, contain faculty offices.

(Continued on bock page)

BRANDEIS PORTRAIT TO HANG AT UNIVERSITY — S. J. Woolf (left), tamed
portrait artist and New York Times Magazine writer, poses with Susan Brandeis and
George Alpert in front of his painting of the late Justice. The likeness, executed many
years ago, has been shipped from New York to the Boston office of Mr. Alpert, where
it -.vill hang •.^r.ti! a patron purchases it for the Brande"? University Bo?.rd Room.

Brandeis Briefs

U On June 23 the leaders of Salem, Mass. gathered in the home of Moses Lubets,
chairman of the Salem Associates of Brandeis University, to hear Professor Max R.
Grossman, newly appointed provost of the University, outline the academic plans for
Brandeis. We were all enthused by the tremendous reception accorded Professor
Grossman and by the express determination of the Salem leaders to run an outstand-
ing campaign for the University. Mr. Lubets said that he hoped Salem's campaign
would set the pace for the entire North Shore.

j[ The New Bedford Associates of Bran-
deis University, under the able chair-
manship of Fisher Abramson. held a
fund-raising dinner for Brandeis Uni-
versity on June 25 at the New Bedford
Hotel. Speakers included George Alpert
of Boston, President of the Board of
Trustees, Professor Max R. Grossman,
and Mrs. Susan Brandeis Gilbert. Initial

(Continued on bacic page]

Resignations Help Brandeis

Bill Cunningham, ace newspaper-
man, brings the "Einstein incident"
into focus in his famous Boston
Herald column, reprinted in the
center fold of this paper. His con-
clusion: "Brandeis University is
served by the inconse-
squabble." Cunningham's
is typical of the entire

actually
quential
reaction
nation's press.

k.\

'Einstein Incident'
Brought Into Focus

Brandeis Univ. Actually Served
By Inconsequential Squabble

By BILL CUNNINGHAM

It was recently announced, although not by the eminent
gentleman himself, that Prof. Albert Einstein had with-
drawn his sponsorship from an educational project, local
of location but national of dream, as yet unbegun and. yet,
well on its way and which will bear the name of Brandeis
University. George Aipert, a Boston attorney and presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees, then announced that neither
he nor the Board had heard from Dr, Einstein, but that the
trouble of record had been with a Prof. Otto Nathan, an
Economics professpr of N.Y.U., and ^ Mr. S. Ralph Lazarus,
la New York business man, and that it was over their pro-
posal to establish Prof. Harold Laski, the British left wing
Laborite and controversial critic of American capitalism, as
president of the proposed institution of learning.

Behind these two statements is an interesting story not
generally known of the effort to found, in a plant alreadv
waiting in nearby Waltham, the 6rst great Jewish-sponsored
university the world has ever known. The Einstein contro-
versy, if it is such, is of minor consequence in the major
conception. Whatever else it is or isn't, the reader can decide
for himself when he finishes this article.

The complete story is bigger than Einstein or any of hi.s
friends, and that's remembering that the celebrated mathe-
matician has yet to say whether his friends had the right to
«pcak for him. Whether they did or they didn't, when they
gave the trustees the choice between Laski and somebody who
believes' steadfastly in the ideals of American democracy they
did the project an immeasurable service.

If when that institution is born it needs a classic inscrip-
tion to be carved over the door of its administration building
or preserved for posterity on a plaque or its seal, I humbly sug-
gest the words of Aipert, the president of jits first Board of
Trustees, when he said to the aforementioned Messrs. Lazarus
and Nathan and in the presence of Prof. Einstein;

"Gentlemen, I can compromise with you upon any subject
but one. That one is Americanism. So far as I am concerned,
there can not be now, nor can there ever be, the slightest com-
promise concerning that."

But to get to the story. For at least 50 years there has
been much serious discussion concerning the founding of 'a
great Jewish-sponsored university. This would not be a Jew-
ish university as such but a Jewish contribution to general
education. It would be open to students of all faiths. Its pres-
ident and faculty might or might not be Jewish. First of all
they'd he scholars and teachers. The faculty, the curriculum
would be non-secretarian.

Notable Contributions Jby Other Faiths

In the end the school would probably be as Jewish as Har-
vard is Congregational, Princeton Presbyterian, Columbia Epis-
Qopal, and so on. In all the world there has never been a Jew-
ish sponsored university except recently in Palestine. Every
other faith has made its notable contributions. There are
countless institutions that were founded by the Protestant de-
nominations. In this country alone more than 200 have been
bounded by Catholics. There are even 50 Negro colleges and
universities.

BOSTOJN

In the various arguments concerning "the quota system"
and other subjects involving the Jewish student and college ed-
ucation the charge has often been made when the chips were
down, the coats off and the talk plain that the Jewish contribu-
tion to higher education, materially, has not been sufficient to
merit more consideration — that they have taken, but have not
given. And many of their leaders have agreed that there was
some justice in the charge. Hence the talk for a great institu-
tion some day.

One of the men most seriously interested in such a project
for a great many years is Dr. Israel Goldstein of New York.

Dr. Goldstein is the brilliant Rabbi of Congregation B'nai
Jeshurum, with his temple on 88th Street. He is currently like-
wise head of the United Palestine Appeal and that belongs in the
story because that's where and how he met Aipert.

This great university had long been Dr. Goldstein's dream,
but never until Aipert came within his ken did he .see the man
he thougnt he needed to make it a reality. George Aipert is a
local attorney of middle years. He is genial, fun-loving, success-
ful. He was never particularly identified with philanthropy nor
fund raising before the war. In fact he was something of a work-
ing play-boy.

With the war, however, and the plight of the Jews in Europe,
all that changed. Because he had the time, the means, a pleasing
presence and an oratorical gift comparable in measure at least
to that of his idol, -Daniel Webster, he was oersuaded to take the
platform telling the story of the Jew in Europe to Jewish audi-
ences here in America. Many people have said they never heard
a speaker so moving. I heard the man speak in Los Angeles two
years ago and I can second the motion.

There are differences of opinion amongst those of Jewish
faith as to the policies and procedures of these campaigns and
there are those who seem to find it hard to regard Aipert as other
than a recent recruit with an extended novitiate of some sort still
ahead of him, None tries to deny, however, that he has been
one of the most dynamic and successful fund raisers any cause
ever had. This work threw him into association with Dr. Gold-
stein, and when the eminent clergymaan came to know him he
decided that with Aipert at last he was prepared to proceed with
his dream.

Aipert was by no means the most prominent man in the pic-
ture. There were others, such as the justice of the New York
Supreme Court, Samuel Null, Julius Silver, vice-president of the
Polaroid Corporation, Abraham F. Wechsier, a prominent New
York merchant and a long list of others. Aipert with his fund
raising experience and organizational know-how simply fitted in.
It was no easy time to launch such a venture.
There are but five million Jews in the United States and
they were already being ^ked to contribute $300,000,000—170
million for relief work overseas and 130 million to philanthropic
needs in this country. It was estimated that ah endowment of
$15,000,000would be necessary for the university.

Million Dollars Already Contributed

A foundation for the purpose of raising funs was however
organized and at a first meeting held here in Boston some three
months ago 51 men contributed $550,000. Since then several
New England communities. Fall River, New Bedford, et cetera,
have contributed another $500,000. The still to be born institu-
tion now has more than a million dollars in cash and pledi^es.

It received too a tremendous break in the matter of a
plant. In Waltham on a truly beautiful campus of 100 acres
is practically a complete university ready for occupancy, ft
has been known as Middlesex University and its' story up to
here has been tragic. It's too long a tale to tell in this space,
but the really impressive place was the life time dream of a
Dr. John Hall Smith who built it with more than a million
dollars of his own funds. As a medical school he could never

SUNDAY HERALD

BOSTON, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1947

get it accredited and lie di^d at tiie.end of a long fight leaving
it as a very white elephant upon the hands of trustees.

These gladly have now turned it over to the trustees of
the Brandeis University project, the sole stipulation bein^ that
a non-sectarian institution of the first rank be created on the
property. That assiirance has been solemnly given.

And .so the carnpaign continues. Response from all over
the nation is beginning to roll in. The enthusiasm is high and
ration wide. No actual drive has been conducted on a national
basis. It's assumed that one will be, but 'it just so could work
out that none will be necessary.

It was in connection with the fund raising that Prof.
Einstein was approached. There were and are a great many
sponsors and endorsers of the general idea.

The list of names Is impressive and national. Just a verv few
are such distinguished clergymen as Archbishop Gushing, the
late Dr. J. Hugh O'Donnell, presi'dent of Notre Dame University;
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the Methodist Church; Rabbi
Stephen S. Wi£e and others; such educators as President Kari
T. Compton of M. I. T., President Daniel Marsh of B. U.. President
Franklin p. Snyder of Northwestern University, President von
Kleinschmidt of the University of Southern California, Dr. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, chancellor, Stanford University: President Alex-
andre G. Ruthven of the University of Michigan and so on; such
prominent senators and congressmen as Ball, Bloom, Kilgore,
McMahon, Thomas, Wagner, Cellar, Voorhis, Douglas, Salton-
stall and so through a long list, including authors, civic leaders
and titans of industry. Prof. Einstein not only enthusiastically
authorized the use of his name, but authorized its use at th'e head
of a fund raising foundation to be known as the Albert Einstein
Foundation. He issued many enthusiastic statements praising the
new university and referred to it as "my darling baby."

Einstein Too Busy to Give Time

The professor, however, is pushing 70, and he's not much
of a man for practical matters. He participated in a few meet-
ings and managed to take a dislike to Dr. Goldstein who wa.s
president of the Board of Trustees and likewise head of the
newly former Einstein Foundation. Rather than cause any con-
troversy. Dr. Goldstein resigned from both positions and Ein-
stein officially stayed on.

He said, however, that he was too busy to give the project
much of his personal time and designated a friend, Prof. Otto
Nathan, Assistant Professor of Economics at New York Univer-
sity, to be his contact man and personal representative. Alpert
succeeded Dr. Goldstein as president of the Board of University
Trustees, and Ralph Lazarus, a friend of Nathan's and execu-
tive of a famous watch company in New York succeeded him
as head of the Einstein Foundation

Meanwhile plans for getting the university organized on
the academic side were made and voted official Part of these

= f f.*^^"""" ""i"^ '''^" ^ y^^"" ^-°' ^^"^'1 for "le forniation of
an academic advisory board, composed of competent educators
•both Jewish and non-Jewish. Prof. Nathan was to select this
committee and the committee was then to recommend to the
Board of Trustees some nominations for president, an academic
policy suggestions concerning a faculty, a curriculum and so on
n c i^'^I^ ^P' ^^'^'"^ *^^" ''h's committeei Would be ready and
Prof. Nathan kept asking the trustees to be patient, saying that
he must have men of high calibre and implying that he was
pondering his selections very carefully. In the meanwhile all
other things were moving rapidly and well.
A, "^wo "lonths ago, the Messrs. Lazarus and Nathan Informed
Alpert that there would be no Educational Advisory Committee
and suggested that instead the Board of Trustees designate Prof
Einstein to select a president. Alpert said this was contrary to
the original understanding and likewise contrary to all estab-
hshed_academic procedure. He wasn't in faVor of it he said

he didn't like it, didn't think he could agree to it, and still in
the interests of harmony he was willing ro hear the proposal
through. He asked them if they, Nathan and Lazarus, had any
nomination, personally, for the presidency.

"Nathan and I think Harold Laski of London, would be an
ideal choice," said Mr. Lazarus. They invited Alpert to Princeton'
to talk it over with Prof. Einstein. Thais where Alpert made
his .Speech about compromising on anything except Americanism.
He said he felt the head of the school should be an American,
and not only Yhat, but one whose Americanism and complete
loyalty to the American interpretation of democracy was un-
swerving and unchallengeable.

He was willing to grant, he said, that Prof. Laski was a
brilliant nT,an, that he might even be a great educator, but he
was at least an international socialist of record, he had just
sued and lost a suit for libel against a British newspaper that'
had called him a communist, and in any event, he was contro-
versial in his political views and a constant critic of American
•ideals.

Alpert said that if they refused to abide by the Board's pro-
cedures he would have to resign. Then his made his comment
about compromising with Americanism.

Nathan and Lazarus was adamant. Einstein didn't say much
one way or the other. He did say that Laski was a very brilliant
man, but he didn't seem to have any interest in the other angles
and took no position. There are those who say that the great
scientist doesn't bother much ^ith mundane matters.

Lazarus Statement Came as Surprise \

The impasse went to a vote of the board and the board
sustained Alpert. Lazarus and Nathan thereupon resigned, but
they said they resigned with good will and that they would issue
no statements that would jeopardize the project.

The subsequent Lazarus statement therefore came as a sur-
prise, and while it may npt have intended to hurt the project,
it quoted Einstein as withdrawing his sponsorship and the use'
of his name because Alpert and the board were trying "to break
down the educational standards of the university."

That's silly on the face of it because the university has no
standards of any sort as yet. As yet, it doesn't exist. All the
board did was to refuse to change its program of procedure to
permit Einstein to select a president, presumably the crimson
tinted Dr. Laski if he accepted the suggestion .of his friends.

The peculiar part of it is that Einstein himself hasn't said
anything one way or the other, and all efforts to reach him by
the board and the press have been unavailing. So far as any
word from him goes, he's still a sponsor and a backer.

This probably comes under the head of the type of organ- '
izational trouble that no great project can hope to avoid, but it's I
interesting in view of the far bigger story it throws into focus.

The plans for the great university go on without a halt.
The loss of the Einstein namt, if indeed it is lost, hasn't cost
the fund campaign a dollar. It controlled nothing and can take
nothing away. The name will simply be changed to the Brandeis
Foundation, and that may have even more general appeal.

There will be an Educational Advisory Committee, fn fact, '
it's being formed now by Prof. Max Grossman, until three weeks
ago a popular member of the faculty of Boston University,
and now the new Provost of Brandeis University. A president
will be selected. He will then help select his faculty. Policies,
a curriculum and all the rest will be decided upon, and the
first academic year will begin in the autumn of 1948.

You may be sitting close to the birth of one of the future's
great educational institutions. It already had a cause to serve,
a faith to glorify, but if it needed an issue to establish its
character, the "Einstein incident" could scarcely have served
it more notably.

Academic Aspects

(ConHnued from page one)

When this work is completed Brandeis
University will begin its educational
career with faculty, students and facili-
ties which will make this institution —
from the time the very first lecture is
given — one of the finest in the country.

We have passed the formative stages
of our history. We are now in the plan-
ning phase. Within a few months, we
shall be ready for operative procedures.
Then, in a little more than a year from
now, we shall begin with a freshman
class of an under-graduate college which
will bring distinction to the sponsors,
founders and associates of Brandeis
University. We shall open a university
which will be a source of joy and in-
spiration to all of the Jews of America
— a college which will be non-sectarian
and which will be open to all. on the
basis of scholastic achievement and ap-
titude, without regard to sex, color or
religion.

The entire nation will rejoice in the
establishment of Brandeis University..

ABOUT OUR PROVOST

A resident of Brookline, Mass., Prof.
Grossman, 43 years old, holds three
degrees from Boston University and has
taken graduate studies at Harvard. Ap-
pointed to the Boston University faculty
as teaching fellow in 1928 and advanced
through various academic ranks, he was
made full Professor in 1938 at age of
34 and a year later named head of the
Department of Journalism.

PROF. MAX R. GROSSMAN

In 1945, he was National President
of the American Association of Schools
and Department of Journalism, and
during 1942 to '44, national President
of Kappa Tau Alpha, the Journalism
Scholarship Fraternity. (These two posts
represent the highest academic honors
obtainable in the field of education for
journalism.)

A newspaperman during his entire
professional life, for many years a fea-
ture writer on the staff of the Boston

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RE.VDY FOR OCCUPANCY — This is one t.I lour circular classrooms at the castle
unit of Brandeis University, awaiting the first Freshman Class in September, 1948.
Seating capacity is 110. Unique vaulted ceiling makes chamber acousticly perfect. Large
windows provide light and a fine view of the Charles River.

Brandeis Briefs . . .

(Continued fronn page one)

gifts received at the meeting totalled
upwards of $30,000. The chairman in-
creased his own previously announced
gift by $1,000 as a mark of confidence
in the future of Brandeis University.

Sunday Post and a contributor to other
Boston and New York newspapers and
magazines, he served also during 1936
to '38 as a radio news commentator.

During the war he was a member of
the Writers Division of the Office of
War Information. Overseas, in 1945, he
became dean of the School of Jour-
nalism at the U. S. Army University,
Biarritz, France. In addition to his
teaching duties, he served as managing
editor of the Army daily newspaper
published there. In April 1946 he be-
came roving correspondent for "Stars
and Stripes," famed Army newspaper,
covering Big Four meetings in Berlin,
the Nuremberg trials and the Paris peace
conference.

He returned to the States in Septem-
ber 1946 and to duties at Boston Uni-
versity. He is a member of the National
Press Club, Massachusetts Press Asso-
ciation, New Century Club. His schol-
arship fraternities: Beta Gamma Sigma,
and Kappa Tau Alpha. Social fraterni-
ties: Phi Alpha and Kappa Omega
Sigma. He was also founder of the
New England Interscholastic Press
Association.

\ As this paper goes to press, Mr. Saul
Seder, prominent Worcester attorney,
and outstanding communal leader, has
called a meeting of prominent Jewish
residents of his community to discuss
ways and means of best enlisting that
city's support. It is expected that the
meeting will lay the groundwork for
the formation of the Worcester Asso-
ciates of Brandeis University.

K At a meeting recently held at the
Hotel Edison in Lynn the Trustees nf
Temple Beth-El voted to establish a
fellowship at Brandeis University in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Burg.
Mr. Burg, after 16 years' service as
President of Beth-El, recently retired.
His successor, Leon Shamroth, presided.

The Brandeis Foundation

The Board of Directors of The
Albert Einstein Foundation, Inc.
wishes to announce that this or-
ganization will henceforth be known
as The Brandeis Foundation, Inc.
The function of the Foundation will
continue to be for the support of
Brandeis University, America's first
secular institution for higher learn-
ina; under Jewish sponsorship. The
address also remains unchanged:
245 Fifth Avenue, New York 16,
New York; MUrray Hill 3-7714.

VOL. 1 NO. 1

TO THE FRIENDS OF BRAN DEIS

JANUARY, 1949

TO THE FRIENDS

OF BRANDEIS

Dr. Abram L. Sachar

rHE dream is a reality, the hope an
accomplishment. Brandeis University,
the nation's first Jewish-sponsored, non-
sectarian University is now an educational

tlLlUCN ClllCui..

Brandeis joined the illustrious ranks of
the nation's colleges and universities
amid traditional pomp and ceremony.
Presidents and delegates of 210 American
and foreign educational centers personally
extended official welcome at the impressive
Inaugural Ceremonies. Lay persons all
over the country warmly received the new
University.

The beautiful 100-acre campus is now
alive with the manifold activities of eager
youth. Classrooms buzz with the excite-
ment of students as they delve into pre-
viously unexplored paths of knowledge
under the guidance of the outstanding
scholars who form the faculty. The neat
rows of books in the library have begun
to assume their rightful much-read, much-
used air. Each of the colorfully furnished
dormitory rooms reflects the distinctive
personalities of its inhabitants. Extracur-
ricular activities are flourishing; a student
newspaper, literary magazine will be pub-
lished shortly, a glee club is well over
the organizational hump, and student
government is in the last stages of plan-
ning. Truly, Brandeis University is a
"going concern".

This heartening beginning has been
both a proud and humbling experience. It
would be only natural if the men who
strove to make Brandeis University a
reality now sat back complacently to view
the fruition of their hard-won dream.
Instead of that almost inevitable psycho-
logical slackening of effort and interest,
two inspiring events have occurred. Meyer
Jaffe, long devoted to the Brandeis cause,
has established a 5250,000 Library Fund;
The New England Associates of Brandeis
have launched a General Funds campaign
for 51,600,000.

Such gratifying events symbolize an
awareness on the part of those men who
are responsible for the birth of Brandeis
University that their work is not yet done.

Future generations of Brandeis students
must find the same intellectual and spir-
(Conl'nitit'il on jhige .5 culiiinii 2)

MEYER JAFFE ESTABLISHES

$250,000 LIBRARY FUND

$1,600,000 Campaign
Launched for Brandeis

Shapiro

The New Eng-
-*- land Associates
of Brandeis Univer-
sity have launched a
drive for 51,600,000
it was announced re-
cently by Morris S.
Shapiro, Chairman
of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Brandeis
the fund-raising arm of

Foundation, Inc.,
the University.

The funds collected during this first
organized drive will be devoted to the
General Funds of the University.

Following close on the heels of the
announcement of the campaign was the
formation of the Organization Committee
under the leadership of Milton Kahn.
Members of the Committee are: Walter
Bieringer, Benjamin Ulin, Sidney H.
Rabinowitz, and George Constantine. This
committee assumed the responsibility for
the organization of campaign teams by
industries and recruitment of team leader-
ship. To date campaign teams representing
some 20 industries and professions have
been formed. 'While Boston has become
campaign headquarters because of its prox-
imity to the campus, fund-raising activitie.s
are well underway in Worcester, Leomin-
ster, Lowell, Fall River, New Bedford,
Providence, R. I., and Manchester, New
Hampshire.

In discussing the campaign Mr. Shapiro
stated, "There is every indication that the
campaign will be an unqualified success.
Gifts already received and other contribu-
tions shortly to be announced, give every
indication that the wide degree of support
will enable us to reach our goal within a
short period of time."

(C'liiliniud on p.igc .3 column 1 )

MEYER JAFFE and a group of Mr.
Jafife's friends have established a fund
in the amount of $250,000 to be named
the William Walter Jaffe Memorial Library
Building Fund and to be used for the
erection of a library building.

The Library, first unit in the newly
formulated architectural master plan de-
signed for the expansion of the nation's
first Jewish-sponsored, non-sectarian Uni-
versity, is to be named in memory of Mr.
Jaffe's son, a veteran of World War II
who achieved a distinguished war record.

Meyer jajje presenting check for $2i0,000
to George Alperl. Pres, of the Board of Trustees

It is appropriate that the memory of this
young man be perpetuated by a contri-
bution which will nurture future genera-
tions of youth.

It is also most appropriate that Brandeis
University should receive its most sizable
gift to date from Mr. Jaffe. For he, as
much as any single man, has given of his
tireless energy and rich talents to the
creation of Brandeis. As well as serving
on the Board of Trustees, and the Brandeis
Foundation, Inc., he was Chairman of the
Building Committee and personally super-
vised the remodelling and construction
necessary to ready the beautifully 100 acre
campus for this fall's "Pilot" class.

"LOOK" LOOKS AT BRANDEIS!

Appearing in the current issue of Look Magazine is a six-page article en-
titled "Brandeis Uni\ersity is Born". Complete with magnificent pictures of the
campus, students, and faculty, the story of the first Jewish-sponsored, non-sec-
tarian University is brought once again to the attention of the nation. Run —
do not walk — to your nearest magazine stand !

Nationwide Expansion

of Women's Committee

Well Underway

THE same exciting pace which The
Women's Committee of Brandeis Uni-
versity estabhshed in their early organ-
izational stages continues without a pause.

Highlights of the past month's activity
were the presentation of Si 0,000 to the
University Library by the Women's Com-
mittee and the establishment of enthu-
siastic units in New Bedford, Mass., and
Providence, R. I. Mrs. Harry L. Michaels,
Temporary Chairman, also reports organ-
izational activity under way in Los Angeles,
Calif., St. Louis, Mc, and New York City.

A recent membership meeting held on
December 15 brought together the chair-
men and the most active members from
each of the organized communities for an
overall picture of the progress of the
Committee.

Mrs. Max Katz, Chairman of Member-
ship, pointed out that at the last large
meeting which was held late last summer,
membership in the Committee totalled in
excess of 1000. Reports from the Decem-
ber 15 meeting indicate a present member-
ship of more than double that figure.

DO NOT MISS

THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

JANUARY 27TH MEETING

Hotel Somerset — 2:30 P.M.

GUEST SPEAKER

DR. LUDWIG LEWISOHN

Professor of Comparative Literature

The Providence, R. I., community was
organized under the leadership of Mrs.
Bertram Bernhardt, Mrs. Saul Feinberg,
Mrs. Louis I. Kramer and Mrs. Benjamin
Rossman. The meeting in this community
testified to the real interest of the group
according to Mrs. Harry Michaels and
Mrs. Irving Abrams, who told the story
of the Committee to the Providence
women. Mrs. Morris Pritsker represented
Pawtucket.

Mrs. Harry Zeitz of New Bedford called
the initial meeting of her community
December 2. Mrs. Carl Spector, Vice
President, reported that New Bedford
would become a stronghold for the activ-
ities of the Women's Committee.

Among those representing their com-
munities at the December 1 5 membership
meeting were Mrs. Charles M. Stearns,
Mrs. Abraham Zimble and Mrs. Louis
Zimble of Chelsea; Mrs. Samuel Dubitsky,
Mrs. Barton Goldberg, and Mrs. Edwin
Jaffe of Tall River; Mrs. Samuel Alofson,
Newport; Mrs. Morris Winer, Sharon;
and Mrs. Joseph Goldberg, Fall River.

The first specific task of the Women's
Committee is the creation of a librar)' for
the University. Members will participate
in developing the Adult Education Pro-
gram and will engage in many other
projects vital to the development of
Brandeis.

WHAT STUDENTS LEARN AT BRANDEIS

A Discussion of the Curriculum Content and Educational Organization

Among the recent distinguished visitors to the
Br.mdeis campus Uds Mrs. Lererett SjltonslaH,
u-ije of the United Stones Senator. Entertaining
her were Susan Brandeis, a former classmate,
wives of the Board of Trustees, and the officers
of the Women's Committee. Above are Mrs.
Saltonstall, Susan Brandeis, and Mrs. George
Alpert.

PLANS LAUNCHED FOR

INITIAL PROGRAM OF

ADULT EDUCATION

Tj' ULFILLING its pledge to assume an
-L active role in the intellectual and spir-
itual life of the community, Brandeis Uni-
versity is laying the foundation for a pro-
gram of Adult Education. It is hoped
that the initial lectures will be scheduled
for early spring.

A provisional Committee is functioning
under the leadership of Dr. Milton Hindus,
Assistant Professor of English, who was
formerly associated with the University
of Chicago and The New School of Social
Research. Other members of this Com-
mittee include Dr. Abram L. Sachar, Presi-
dent, Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn, Professor of
Comparative Literature and well-known
author and critic. Dr. Shlomo Marenof,
Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations, and Clarence Q. Berger,
Director of Public Relations.

The program will be directed toward
those men and women in the community
who desire knowledge as an end in itself.
The lectures will be on a high intellectual
level and personal contact between
the audience and lecturer will be assured
by limiting the number attending each
course and encouraging informal gather-
ings both before and after the lecture.

The first draft on a list of lectures to
be included in the program has been sub-
mitted and, according to the committee,
will be announced shortly. It was revealed,
however, that Dr. Sachar, Dr. Lewisohn
and Dr. Hindus will each give a series of
lectures in their respective fields. It is
expected that visiting lecturers will be in-
vited to participate in the program.

'T' HE excitement of the events attendant
-*- upon the opening of Brandeis — the
impressive Inaugural Festivities, the com-
pletion of the present campus, the arrival
of the "Pilot" freshman class — have
somewhat overshadowed many important
aspects of the new University.

Among the more important questions
still not completely answered are those
pertaining to the educational pattern. What
role does Brandeis hope to assume within
the field of higher education .-' Is its cur-
riculum organized along traditional paths
or does its newness make it sympathetic to
experimentation? In essence, what is the
content and organization of the curriculum
oflfered to Brandeis students.'

Fundamentally, the educational pattern
of Brandeis will adhere closely to that of
the small, high-calibre liberal arts college.

Brandeis, however, has eliminated the
traditional concentration within depart-
ments and divisions and has established
four Schools: The School of General
Studies, the School of Social Sciences, the
School of Humanities and the School of
Science. The administration hopes to add
a School of Music and Fine Arts to round
out the curriculum.

The 107 "Pilot" freshmen are enrolled
in the School of General Studies, which
offers introductory and survey courses.
Students then will concentrate in one of
the upper Schools, each of which will offer
diversified programs of studies.

A keynote of this program will be to
place the functions of guidance and
counselling in the hands of those in con-
tact with the student rather than in the
files of an impersonal, central office.

Another important contribution of this
type of organization to the intellectual
development of the student is the broader
scope of study which it encourages. Rather
than concentrate within the narrow con-
fines of a single department, the student is
exposed to that entire field of knowledge.

Presently, the Brandeis curriculum offers
16 courses to the freshman class. Each
student is required to take five courses
including Humanities, Western Civiliza-
tion, Mathematics, one language and a
choice of either philosophy or chemistry.

PRESENT TO BOSS MEANS

GIFT FOR BRANDEIS

As their holiday gift to Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Ford, the members of the Ford
Manufacturing Co. have made a gift of
S2,500 to Brandeis. In making the gift in
behalf of Ford, a member of the Board of
Trustees and tiie Foundation, employees
stated, "No other gift could be more ap-
propriate than a contribution to Brandeis,
in the creation of which Clara and Joseph
Ford have played .such a vital role. " The
gift will be used for equipping Brandeis'
Speech Laboratory.

BRANDEIS CAMPUS

DRAWS SIGHTSEERS

A constant stream of sightseers anxious
to inspect the modern educational plant of
Brandeis keeps the student guides busy each
week-end. Following the estimated throng
of 10,000 who viewed the grounds on
Open House Day, visitors from Louisiana
and Illinois, California and Canada have
arrived daily to see for themselves the na-
tion's first Jewish-sponsored non-sectarian
institution of higher learning. Organiza-
tions which have conducted formal visits
to the campus include the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations, Jewish War
Veterans, Waltham Kiwanis, Jewish Com-
munity Council of Boston, Rabbinical As-
sociation of Greater Boston, Council of
Jewish Women and the Waltham Rotary.

$1,600,000 Campaign

(CoiiliiiKcd ]r<iiu pJgt: 1)

He also pointed out that "Each of the
men who has volunteered to serve has con-
suming business and professional obliga-
tions. Their willingness to act in such an
important and demanding capacity reflects
the enthusiasm and pride of the commu-
nity in Brandeis University."

Members of the New England Asso-
ciates include: Edward Adaskin, Solomon
Agoos, Herbert Alpert, Jack Ansin, Sam
Baer, Irwin Benjamin, A. Berkowitz, Mor-
ris Borkum, Robert P. Cable, Frank Casty,
Max Chernis, Abner Cohan, Henry O.
Cohen, Hyman M. Cohen, Harry S. Dane,
Grover B. Daniels, Harry Falkson, Saul
Fechtor, Max Feldberg, Morris Feldberg,
Phillip Feldman, Joseph Feldman, Murray
W. Finard, Benjamin Ford, Joseph Foster,
Jerome Franck, Irving Frank, Herman
Geist, Joseph Gibbs, Herman Gilman,
Alfred H. Ginsburg, Joseph S. Ginsburg,
Hyman S. Glass, Louis I. Glen, Joseph
Goldberg, Louis R. Golden, Louis Gold-
man, Edward Goldstein, Hyman Gondel-
man, Morris Goodman, Barnett D. Gordon,
Col. B. L. Gorfinkle, Jacob Hiatt, Max
Hoffman, Eli Jacobson, Kivie Kaplan,
Simon Kaplan, S. H. Knopf, Leon J.
Kowal, Peter M. Leavitt, Edward Levine,
Harry Levine, Louis Levine, Stanley Levine,
I. Roy Levy, Joseph M. Linsey, Harry
Marks, Robert Markson, Y. D. Markson,
Charles Millender, Louis Millender, Fred
Monosson, Edward A. Nathanson, A. S.
Persky, Harry Quint, Samuel Rapaporte, Jr.
Dr. Max Ritvo, Robert M. Robbins, Charles
Rome, Hon. Da\id A. Rose, Arthur Rosen,
Dr. S. H. Rubin, Louis H. Salvage, Irving
Schwartz, Joseph Schwartz, Nathan
Schwartz, Samuel Seder, Arthur Shactman,
Abraham Shapiro, Alexander Shapiro,
Louis P. Smith, Hervey Solar, Carl Spec-
tor, Dewey D. Stone, Norman B. Tobias,
Joseph Talamo, Monroe D. Trichter, Irv-
ing Usen, Sheppard Werner, Wilfred B.
Werner, Leonard Windhcim, Abraham
Zimble, Louis Zimble.

WOMEN'S WEAR GROUPS
MAKE PACE-SETTING GIFT

As a result of the first meeting of the
Women's Wear Committee, the $1,600,000
campaign was $100,000 closer to com-
pletion.

More than 130 prominent figures in the
women's clothing industry were present at
the recent meeting held on the Univer-
sity's campus. Before tackling campaign
plans these men set the pace with contri-
butions totaling $100,000.

Co-chairmen of the Committee include
George Constantine, Joseph Ford, Jerome
Frank, Herman Gilman and Arthur Rosen.

BRANDEIS FOUNDERS WORK WITH SAME
ZEAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY

THE MEN who translated the ideal
of a Jewish sponsored nonsectarian
university into the reality that is now
Brandeis act in the realization that their
work has just begun. For as members of
the University's Board of Trustees and
the Brandeis Foundation, Inc., theirs is the
responsibility of guiding and nurturing
the University to maturity as a small, high
quality institution of higher education.

High on the list of vital projects is the
$1,600,000 drive. In this campaign as well
as in all important University matters the
founders of Brandeis play an active and
constructive role.

Morris Shapiro, as chairman of the
Brandeis Foundation, the fund-raising
arm of the University, is a key man in
the informal but effective campaign or-
ganization. Mr. Shapiro is also a leading
figure in the Men's Wear Committee.

No less active in the campaign is
George Alpert, President of the Board of
Trustees. He is always on call for the
many necessary conferences and has brought
the story of Brandeis to countless groups
in the community. He is also busy with
the formation of a Lawyer's Committee.

Each of the Board members has assumed
the leadership for the campaign teams
in their industries; James Axelrod, Tex-
tiles; Joseph F. Ford, Women's Wear;
Norman Rabb, Provisions; and Abraham
Shapiro, Shoe and Leather.

Setting the pace for the entire campaign
was Meyer Jaffe's contribution, the largest
single gift which the University has re-
ceived to date.

With the men whose vision, devotion
and perseverance made Brandeis possible
still active in its development, Brandeis
University is assured of a proud place in
the academic world.

PRESIDENTS LETTER

(Continued jrom page 1)

itual atmosphere, the same educational
advantages, and the same opportunity for
personal expression as is now in force
on the Brandeis campus.

To assure that this same high calibre
of education be perpetuated at Brandeis,
substantial financial reserve is essential.
That this support is forthcoming there is
no doubt. The unqualified enthusiam and
pride of the Jewish community in the
University they have created, the many
gifts which Brandeis has received, and
the readiness of already overworked men
to assume the additional burdens of a
$1,600,000 campaign testify to Brandeis'
future security.

To each of you who has given so
generously of your time, efforts, and funds
let me reaffirm the pledge that the
Brandeis Administration will constantly
strive toward the realization of the Uni-
versity's great promise for the future.

U.idci^ ol iIh AUn't At>l<.i,tl CumwilUe. om; «/ //Jc /i//ii« inJiiUiy It.inu f,rganuid l<> d,iU m ihc
Si. (lOO.OOO i.imjKiign dre jrum left l,> right: Sunt Fechtor. Morris Shapiro, and Joseph Cibhs 'I he
Committee held its first organizational meeting December Ulh and campaign activities are underway.

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BRANDEIS STUDENTS MEASURE UP

— It's jumbo size for student Curl \\" erutr

— agree co-eds Natalie Litiich (left) and
Lora Levy, as they see how their fellow
freshmen measure up for the newly arm ed
shipment of sweaters hearing the blue and
white shield of the Uniiersity.

"The Reward of Study is L'nderslanding" ,
and Brandeis University consciously strifes
far that atmosphere conducive to study.
Here in the pleasant, well-lighted Library,
students spend a great proportion of their
out-oj-class-hours.

THE QUEEN AND HER LADIES —

At the first annual Snow Ball dance, tin
Board of Trustees selected a Queen and
her ladies-in-u-aiting. Crowning the Queen
Anette Hard, is Eleanor Moran. To tht
left is "Penny" Peirez. to the right
Carol Rodovsky.

The production of this bull<;tin was made possible through the cooperation of the following Boston concerns:
Wright Engraving Company, General Composition Company, Pearl Bindery, and Daniels Printing Company.

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

BROOKLYN PHILANTHROPIST
CREATES CHAIR IN HEBREW

Michael Tuch

A more intensive concentration in the
field of Hebrew civilization has been made
possible by the establishment at Brandeis
of the Michael Tuch
Chair in Hebrew
Literature and Eth-
ics. The Tuch Chair
brings to four the
number of endow-
ments for special
fields of study.

Mr. Tuch, who
has been a resident
of Brooklyn for many years, retired from
business activity in 1929 to devote his
time principally to philanthropic enter-
prises. A visit in 1931 to Palestine, where
he felt the impact of Hebrew as a living
tongue, convinced him of the importance
of preserving the basic values of Hebrew
literature.

Commenting on his bequest to the Uni-
versity, Mr. Tuch declared: "I am grati-
fied that Brandeis University, though com-
pletely nonsectarian in its admissions
policy, in its choice of faculty, and in
its curriculum, recognizes the significant
position which Hebrew culture holds in
Western civilization. I am glad to play a
part in the strengthening of this vital
cultural area by establishing a chair which
I hope will always be linked with the
highest in scholarship, research and teach-
ing."

Other Chairs established at the Uni-
versity recently are the Rita H. Aronstam
Chair in Organic Chemistry, provided by
the Rita H. Aronstam Charitable and
Educational Foundation of Atlanta, of
which Louis Aronstam is Chairman; and
the Sayde Genis Chair in Biology.

POPULAR NOVELIST TOURS
FOR WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

Bringing the
story of Brandeis
University, its
founding and its
future, to National
Women's Commit-
tee Chapters across
the nation, Thomas
Savage, author and Tho,>u>~I^.
mstructor in the
Humanities at Brandeis, has established
a highly effective liaison between the
University and one of its most potent
auxiliary groups.

The author of "The Pass" and "Lona
Hanson", Mr. Savage has covered a total
of 7,000 miles, speaking to Women's
Committee chapters in Buffalo, Canton,
Atlanta, Savannah, and New Haven. His
engagements in these cities and his stimu-
lating word-picture of the University ful-
fill the purpose of bringing the concrete
reality of Brandeis to women who have
never visited the campus.

WHITNEY FOUNDATION
VOTES RESEARCH FUND

Grant to Further New

Methods in Social Sciences

In order to encourage pioneering effort
in the area of a progressive curriculum,
the William C. "Whitney Foundation of
New York City has voted a grant to the
University to be used in developing new
teaching methods in the social sciences.

While current trends emphasize pro-
fessional specialization, Brandeis plans to
encourage its students to build skills and
talents upon the broad base of the liberal
arts and sciences. This educational policy,
Brandeis curriculum authorities point out,
is designed to equip students to cope with
the complex social structure of contem-
porary civilization.

Directors of the Whitney Foundation,
established in 1936 by Dorothy Whitney
Elmherst, are Michael W. Straight, Presi-
dent; Milton C. Rose, "Vice President;
Thomas J, Regan, Treasurer; Harriet K.
Everson, Assistant Corresponding Secre-
tary; Max Lerner; and Beatrice Dolivet.
The Foundation is devoted to social and
economic planning, to the furtherance of
the arts, and to work in the labor edu-
cation field.

University Publication

Bulletin and Quarterly Will

Increasing requests from friends, donors
and members of the several foster
"alumni " groups of the University have
made clear the necessity of issuing periodic
reports upon the gratifying development
of Brandeis. The Brandeis Bulletin will
be a regular monthly publication which
will report the many on-campus and off-

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to Appear Every Month

Keep Brandeis Family Informed

campus activities which contribute to the
growth of Brandeis.

The Brandeis Quarterly, a magazine
devoted primarily to the academic fea-
tures of the University, will appear every
three months, starting with the issue of
October 15, 19^0. The Brandeis Bulletin
will be published on the fifteenth of each
of the eight months in which The
Brandeis Quarterly is not issued.

In this manner, the rapidly growing
list ot friends thiougiioui the nation who
are part of the pioneering Brandeis family
will be kept informed about each major
step in what will assuredly be an historic
undertaking.

DISCUSSING PLANS FOR THE MALDEN BRANCH of the Branden Assocnites are Ezra
Green, prominent textile maiiufiicturer, tfho is Chairman, and George Alpert. President of the
Brandeii Board of Trustees, who addressed the initial Maiden meeting. Serving with Mr. Green in
organizing the Maiden group are Eli Hurvilt, Benjamin Ruderman, Sidney Ereedman, and Dr.
Aia\ O. Berman.

MAYPER MEMORIAL AWARD

A student award for the promotion
of inter-racial amity has been estab-
lished at Brandeis by Joseph Mayper
and his family, of New \'ork, in
memory of his son who died in
World War II. The Award, known
as the "Bruce R. Mayper Memorial
Award", was presented for the first
time to Lois Spiro, President of the
Newman Club at Brandeis, class of
1953. at the Second Annual Convoca-
tion in Mav.

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AUGUST, 19>o

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

ATHLETIC BLDG. HONORS LATE BOARD MEMBER

joiepb Limey

ESTABLISH BRANDEIS
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Following close upon the publication of
Brandeis' freshman football schedule for
the fall of lO'SO is the announcement by
George Alpert, Pres-
ident of the Univer-
sity's Board of Trus-
tees, that Joseph Lin-
sey, nationally prom-
inent beverage mer-
chant and sports fig-
ure, will serve as
chairman of the
Athletic Association.
As Benny Friedman, Director of Ath-
letics at the University, issued succeeding
releases indicating that Brandeis would
meet Harvard, Boston College, Dartmouth,
West Point, University of New Hampshire
and similar institutions in football, basket-
ball or baseball during the coming academ-
ic season, many friends of the University
asked to be permitted to participate in
strengthening the athletic program. The
most frequently heard remark was, "I want
to be certain of seats on the 50-yard-line."
Underlying the jocularity was a sincere
desire to aid the University in establish-
ing its colors in the American athletic
scene.

Mr. Linsey will shortly announce the
composition of the temporary organizing
committee. An old and devoted friend of
Brandeis University, Mr. Linsey has been
prominent in the United Jewish Appeal
as well as in Catholic and Protestant civic
enterprises in his native Boston. Mr. Lin-
sey takes pride in the composition of the
first Brandeis team, a fine cross-section of
American life with the young athletes
drawn from every race and creed and color.

Shapiro Memorial Committee, Family Contribute
Funds for Construction of Brandeis Sports Plant

THE ABRAHAM SHAPIRO ATHLETIC BUILDING, designed by Saarinen, Saarinen &
Associates. University architects, will be the central unit of the University's projected athletic plant.
Construction will be started shortly on the main building {above center). Other units shmvn above
include: (left) the proposed swimming pool building; and (right) the proposed small gymnasium

"be the newly-acquired Memphis Tract of 21 acres

unit. Site of the Shapiro Athletic Building will
overloolsing the Charles River.

A lasting monument to the memory of
the late Abraham Shapiro, eminent Boston
philanthropist and member of the pioneer-
ing Board of Trustees of Brandeis, is to
be created through the erection of the
Abraham Shapiro Athletic Building on
the University campus. In linking his
name with the recently-initiated Brandeis
athletic program, the intense interest of
"Abe" Shapiro in the future of athletics
at Brandeis will be appropriately com-
memorated.

MARCUS AFIELD UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The newly launched sports program at
Brandeis takes a major stride forward
with the announcement of the construction
of the Abraham Marcus Athletic Field,
named for the late Baltimore merchant.
A practice football field, a track, a base-
ball diamond, and a women's playing
held and bleachers, will be readied for
use in 1950-51 when Brandeis launches
its intercollegiate athletic schedule.

The gift underwriting the Athletic
Field was presented by the widow of the
late Mr. Marcus together with their chil-
dren, nephews and nieces to honor the
memory of Mr. Marcus who died early
this year. Mr. Marcus, a beloved citizen
of Baltimore, was president of the Louis
Marcus Corporation. Because of his whole-
hearted interest in athletics and sports,
his family has chosen to perpetuate

Abraham

during the

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his name by linking
it with Brandeis in
the creation of the
Athletic Field.
Ground for the
Field was broken by
Joseph Linsey, Chair-
man of the Brandeis
Athletic Association,
in a ceremony held
Annual Convocation

Second
Exercises in May.

Members of the Marcus family who
made the Field possible include Mrs.
Marcus; her two children, Louis Marcus
and Mrs. Lloyd Gerber; and Mr. Marcus'
sisters and brothers: Mrs. Louis Naviasky,
Mrs. Gabriel Click, Mrs. Archie T. 'Wolf-
sheimer; Richard S. Marcus, and Harry
Bernstein.

Funds for the construction of the
Athletic Building are being made avail-
able to Brandeis by the Abraham Shapiro
Memorial Committee and by Mrs. Shapiro
together with members of the Shapiro
family, including his sons, Jacob, Sidney,
George, and Robert; four daughters, Mrs.
Alice Dorn, Mrs. Dorothy Kassel, Mrs.
Jeannette Rosenberg and Mrs. Evelyn
Andorsky; and a sister, Mrs. Anna
Solomon. The building will serve as a
tribute to one who played a major role
in creating the University and charting
its course in the formative years.

Chairman of the Memorial Com-
mittee, organized after Mr. Shapiro's
death early in 1949, is A. 'W. Berkowitz.
Honorary Chairmen of the Committee
are Hon. Maurice J. Tobin, United States
Secretary of Labor, and Hon. Paul A.
Dever, Governor of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts. Contributions to date
have been received from more than 20
states extending west to California and
south to Alabama.

The Abraham Shapiro Athletic Building
will house, when completed, three basket-
ball and two squash courts, a remedial
exercise room, a wrestling room, and
steam, locker and shower rooms. The Ath-
letic Building will be of primary im-
portance not only in developing the
University's physical education program,
but it will contribute to the diversifica-
tion of Brandeis activities.

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

FRIENDS OF MUSIC

TO TENDER RECEPTION

FOR PROFESSOR FINE

The newly-elected officers of The Friends
of the School of Music are utilizing the
hot summer months for the initiation of
their plans for the academic season
ly^O-Jl.

The Executive Board will tender a re-
ception to Irving Fine, newly-appointed
Composer in Residence and Lecturer in
Music, during the
latter part of Au-
gust. Dr. Fine, who
comes to Brandeis
from a post at the
Harvard School of
Music and who is
the recent recipient
of a Guggenheim
Iri'hig Fine Fellowship, will join

with Dr. Erwin Bodky, Assistant Professor
of Music, in serving as Consultants to
The Friends of The School of Music.

Adolph Ullman, founder and Chairman
of The Friends, also reports that the
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation has
agreed to underwrite a series of chamber
music concerts at the University during
the coming season. Plans are now being
formulated for the program itself.

Officers of The Friends of The School
of Music for the coming year are as fol-
lows: Adolph Ullman, Chairman; Samuel
Slosberg, First Vice Chairman; Mrs. Paul
T. Smith and Emmanuel Josephs, Vice
Chairmen; Albert Wechsler, Treasurer;
Mrs. Frank S. Metcalf, Recording Secre-
tary; Mrs. Bernard H. Robinson, Corre-
sponding Secretary; Mrs. Mandell Green,
Financial Secretary.

Other members of the Executive Board
are: Mrs. Erwin Bodky, Lester Dana, Mrs.
Jacob J. Kaplan, Joseph Milhender, Max
Mydans, Dr. Bernard H. Robinson, Mrs.
Samuel Slosberg, Albert Ullman, Mark
Werman and Mrs. Charles F. Whiting.

ISRAEL ROGOSIN CONTRIBUTES
SECOND

$270,000 For Brandeis

To demonstrate
his confidence in the
future of Brandeis,
Israel Rogosin,
prominent industrial-
ist and philanthro-
pist in New York
City, has presented
a second gift of
$100,000 to the '"•"' R"R'"'»
University. Mr. Rogosin made his original
contribution several years ago.

The largest gift reported as a result of
a series of events held in the interest of
Brandeis this spring in New York, the
benefaction was freed from any restriction.
Mr. Rogosin stipulated that it be used for
the general purposes of the University. A
total of $270,000 in gifts was received
at the meeting sponsored by Mr. Rogosin.

Mr. Rogosin, who is prominent in the

GIFT OF $100,000

Raised at N.Y. Meetings

rayon and textile industries, is a member
of the Brandeis University Board of
Trustees, and has long been a leading na-
tional figure in the activities of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, the United Jewish Appeal
and other charitable causes. He is Presi-
dent of the Beaunit Mills, Inc., the Ameri-
can Bemberg Corporation and the North
American Rayon Corporation.

A second New York meeting was held
in the early summer under the chairman-
ship of Dr. Isador Lubin, a member of
the Brandeis Board of Trustees and United
States Representative on the UN Com-
mittee on Labor and Employment. Promi-
nent New York personalities cooperating
in arranging Brandeis meetings include
Joseph Mailman, of Personna Blades; Max
Doft, of the Princeton Knitting Mills;
Lester Martin, of the Consolidated Tex-
tiles; and Jack Poses, of D'Orsay Perfumes.

BRANDEIS ASSOCIATES OF BOSTON
PLAN ACTIVITIES FOR SUMMER MONTHS

Although community activities usually
taper off with the approach of summer,
neither hot weather nor vacation plans
have cut deeply into the enthusiasm of the
Membership Committee of the Greater
Boston Chapter of the Brandeis University
Associates. With a quota of one thousand
members, the Committee is determined to
achieve this goal by the fall.

On June 28, thirty-four Committee
members convened with their chairman.
Harold Sherman Goldberg, at the Parker

ON A RECENT IISIT TO THE CAMPUS Bcdiimore jiid Washington. D.C.. women discussed
the University's plans for the School of Music with Dr. Erwin Bodky, Assistant Professor of Music.
Left to right are Mrs. Edward Cafritz and Mrs. Jack Btau. President and Corresponding Secretary,
respectively, of the Washington Chapter; Dr. Bodky; and Mrs. Joseph Sherbow, of Baltimore.

House to plan the
summer activities.
The meeting was off
to a good start when
a flood of new mem-
berships was an-
nounced. Addresses
were delivered by
Hyman Cohen, Pres-
ident of the Chapter Harold S. Goldberg
and Milton Kahn, Chairman of the Board
of Directors. George Alpert, President of
the University's Board of Trustees, gave
a resume of Associates activities in other
communities, and paid special attention to
the importance of the newly organized
New York City Chapter.

Members of the Boston Chapter served
as Marshal's Aides during the Second
Annual Convocation on May 27, when
7,000 people gathered on the Brandeis
campus to hear Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Marshal of the Aides was Harold Sherman
Goldberg. Assisting Marshals were Sidney
L. Kaye, Lawrence Laskey, Herbert J.
Chernis, and Bertram Tackeff.

The Chapter held its First Annual
Luncheon Meeting during the Convocation
weekend on the Brandeis campus, and was
addressed by W. Chesley 'Worthington,
Alumni Secretary of Brown University and
President of the American Alumni Coun-
cil, who spoke on the "Role of Alumm
in Modern Education."

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

FIRST FORMAL PHOTOGRAPH OF BRANDEIS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

At the meetinj; of the Board of Trustees held during the Second Annual Convocation Exercises, the members posed for their first formal
portrait. Reading from left to right they are: (Settled) Meyer Jaffe; Morris S. Shapiro; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; George Alpert, President of the
Board; Dr. Abram L. Sachar, President of the University; Joseph F. Ford; Israel Rogosin. (Standing) David K. Niles; Norman S. Rabb; Jacob
Shapiro; Dudley F. Kimball; James J. Axelrod and Dr. Isador Lubin. Two Board members were unable to attend this meeting, Judge Joseph M.
Proskauer and Dr. Paul Klapper.

STONEHILL BEQUEST

TO EXPAND RESEARCH

The two-fold objective of research and
instruction will be fulfilled at Brandeis
University through the four Sara N.
Stonehill Memorial Teaching Fellowships
of $2500 each, endowed through the es-
tate of the late Mrs. Sara N. Stonehill of
Chicago.

The fellowships have been established
in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics
and psychology. They will be awarded to
promising young graduate students who
have proven themselves outstanding in
tiieir chosen fields.

Recipients of the four fellowships, who
will be selected on the basis of national
competition, will be given the opportunity
to teach at Brandeis in the fields desig-
nated and simultaneously to continue with
their graduate studies in the Boston area.

In a letter to the executives of the
Stonehill estate, Robert I. Livingston and
Walter E. Heller of Chicago, Dr. Sachar
declared, "This superb benefaction makes
possible the completion of the graduate
education of gifted young people in scien-
tific fields and, at the same time, is of
help to a young University because it
makes available very competent teaching
skills. 1 know of no more creative way by
which the memory of Mrs. Stonehill could
be honored than by blessing the lives of
young people of promise."

RABINOWITZ FAMILY ENDOWS
ANNUAL TUITION SCHOLARSHIP

Lollie and ]vseph Rabiiiuuiu

Among the recently established scholar-
ship funds at Brandeis which will offer the
opportunities of higher education to youths
who are gifted but financially straitened
is the Joseph and Lottie Rabinowitz
Scholarship Fund. The endowment was
presented to the University on the occasion
of the Golden Wedding Anniversary of
Joseph and Lottie RabinowitE of Boston
by their four children.

The Fund is endowed by Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Rabb, Mr. and Mrs. Norman S.
Rabb, Mr. and Mrs. Irving W. Rabb, all
of Boston, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Sol-
omon of New York. Mr. Rabinowitz, who
is President of Stop and Shop Super-
markets, has long been prominent in
community affairs.

The Scholarship Fund, which currently
is endowed to provide for full tuition an-
nually for a boy and a girl, may be in-
creased in the future to provide additional
scholarships.

COMMONS ROOM

COMMEMORATES

IRVING USEN GIFT

The Commons Room of the Castle, the
largest and most luxurious of the Univer-
sity lounges, will bear the name of Irving
and Edyth Usen as a tribute to the sus-
tained devotion of this prominent Boston
family to the purpose of Brandeis. A re-
cent gift of $25,000 is in addition to
previous Usen donations which were made
in the earlier years of the University.

In accepting the gift on behalf of the
University, Dr. Abram L. Sachar stated:
"We are proud to assign a name so hon-
ored and so esteemed in our community
for the Commons Room which is contin-
ually u.sed by students, faculty and visitors.
The name and the purpose of the room
belong together, and I am vcr)' happy that
we may count you very integrally in our
Brandeis family."

Mr. Usen, President of the Irving Usen
Trawling Co., is active in community and
philanthropic affairs. He is former Treas-
urer and Chairman of the Combined
Jewish Appeal of Greater Boston.

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

MEMPHIS FUNDS PROVIDE

27-ACRE TRACT FOR CAMPUS

^_^^_______ In Memphis,

^^HB^^I Tenn., where Bran-
'^ ^^^ jgjs boasts a larger

(I I "alumni" than any

• "^t IP other college, prom-
inent community
leaders are in the
forefront in sup-
porting efforts to
Abe D. Waldauer build the University.

Under the chairmanship of Abe D.
Waldauer, one of Memphis' leading citi-
zens, the group attracted enough support
to ensure funds for the purchase of a 27-
acre tract of land adjoining the present
Waltham, Mass., campus to be known as
the Memphis Tract and to be utilized
for the development of the University's
athletic facilities. This ground is now
being cleared for the Abraham Marcus
Athletic Field and will also be the site of
the Abraham Shapiro Athletic Building.

The additional acreage will extend the
campus close to the banks of the historic
Charles River, where the University will
take its place with the other institutions
of higher learning that overlook the
Charles, including Harvard, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and 'Wellesley.

The men who cooperated with Mr.
Waldauer in making this achievement pos-
sible include John Adler, Leo Bearman,
Philip Belz, 'William Epstein, 'William
Garber, Jack Goldsmith, Charles Good-
man, Benjamin Goodman, Myron Garber,
Louis Kotler, William Lowenberg, Dr.
Louis Levy, Sam Plough, Philip Perel,
Aaron R. Scharff, and Abe Wursburg.
Nathan Shainberg is Secretary, and M. A.
Lightman, Jr., Herbert Kahn and Julian
Allenberg form the Attendance Committee.

Further evidence of Memphis zeal and

COLUMBUS WOMEN

INCREASE ACTIVITY

Columbus, O., reports an active
Women's Committee Chapter under
the direction of its able President,
Mrs. Alfred Kobacker. Only a few
months old at this date, they have
already listed a large membership
with a substantial proportion of Life
Members.

Other Columbus officers are Mrs.
Samuel Melton and Mrs. Morris
Resler, Vice Presidents; Mrs. David
Rosenfeld, Secretary; Mrs. Harry Getz,
Treasurer; and Mrs. Theodore Schlon-
sky. Membership Chairman.

generosity toward Brandeis are the grants
from the Kahn Trust, established by the
will of Jacob M. Meyer, honoring the
memory of Henry M. and Lena Meyer
Kahn, which have been used to supple-
ment salaries of faculty members, thereby
aiding in maintaining the high standards
of the University. A loan fund and a
scholarship fund for needy students have
also come from the Kahn Trust. Addi-
tional Memphis activity resulted in the
establishment of the Sam Abraham Mem-
orial Scholarship Fund at Brandeis, hon-
oring the memory of Sam Abraham, a dis-
tinguished Memphis communal leader. It
will provide scholarships at Brandeis for
deserving students.

The Memphis Chapter of the Brandeis
Associates recently held its first member-
ship dinner meeting in the Forrest Room
of the Gayoso Hotel and was addressed by
George Alpert, President of the Board of
Trustees, and Benny Friedman, Director
of Athletics at Brandeis. Jack Lieberman,
Executive Director of the Memphis Jew-
ish Welfare Fund, supervised the arrange-
ments for the Brandeis Associates dinner.

NOTES ON

n^he Women's Cojm7iiUee

The Detroit Chapter has launched its
formal organization under the leadership
of Mrs. Oscar Zemon, President Pro-Tem.
Its 47 sister chapters throughout the na-
tion welcome the newest member chapter.

Other temporary Detroit officers are Mrs.
Leonard Kasle, First Vice President; Mrs.
Philip Marcuse, Secretary; Mrs. Norman
Levey, Treasurer; Mrs. Lawrence Segar,
Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Harvey
Rattner, Financial Secretary; and Mrs. E.
Bryce Alpern, Publicity.
The Brandeis story was interpreted to
the recently- formed Cleveland Chapter by
Mrs. Alvin Mellman, Temporary Chair-
man, who visited the campus last month
to acquaint herself fully with the work of
the University.

Hartford continues to pace the Women's
Committee in terms of enthusiasm and ac-
tivity with Mrs. Edwin Lavitt as President.
Llnder the leadership of Mrs. John Sudar-
sky. Honorary President, the chapter was
established as one of the leading groups
in the community.

Hartford officers include Mrs. Harry
Bishop, Treasurer; Mrs. Richard Harris,
Financial Secretary; and Mrs. Joseph Su-
darsky, Recording Secretary.

The Brandeis story went west to Phoenix,
where Mrs. Arnold H. Abelson presides.
Officers of the Phoenix Chapter assisting
Mrs. Abelson are Mrs. Samuel Langerman,
Vice President; Mrs. Meyer Spitalny, Treas-
urer; Mrs. A. D. Spector, Publicity Chair-
man; and Mrs. Maurice Chesler, Member-
ship Chairman.

On the west coast San Francisco wom-
en, under the leadership of Mrs. Melvin
Swigg, President, are formulating plans
for a membership campaign to increase
the ranks of their chapter, one of the
youngest in the Women's Committee.

Other San Francisco officers include Mrs.
Mel Schwartzbaum, Vice President; Mrs.
Alvin I. Fine, Recording Secretary; Mrs.
Percy Barker, Corresponding Secretary; and
Mrs. Ovid Ross, Treasurer.

ST. LOUIS WOMEN attending the recent Convocation Confer-
ence of the National Wotnen's Committee meet ivith Susan Bran-
deis, Honorary President. Left to right are Mrs. Morris Horwitz,
Miss Brandeis, Mrs. Morris M. Sachar and Mrs. Samuel E. Fleisch-
mann. Under the leadership of Mrs. Sachar more than 900 mem-
bers were enrolled at the Chapter's first formal meeting.

GEORGIA AND TEXAS WOMEN'S COMMITTEE delegates
to the Convocation Conference met Prof. Max Lerner on the cam-
pus. Left to right, are Mrs. Sidney 0. fan/is, President. Atlanta: Mrs.
Louis Rudofsky, Savannah; Prof. Lerner; Mrs. Samuel Alterman,
and Mrs. Eli Goldstein, President, San Antonio, Texas. Chapters
in these states are engaging in extraordinary membership activity.

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

THREE LIBRARY

MEMORIALS CREATED

Three new librar}' collections have been
established in the Brandeis Library in the
form of memorials during the past months.

The Morris and Vera Hillqiiit Collec-
tion, an extensive library of books and
pamphlets dealing with the origins of
American socialism and labor organization,
was presented by Miss Nina E. Hillquit
of New York in memory of her parents.
The late Morris Hillquit was an authority
on the American labor movement and
wrote many texts on the subject.

The Jacob White Book Fund has been
established through a bequest of the late
Lynn, Mass., philanthropist and hotel
owner. While many contributions have
been made to the Library for the purchase
of texts in specific fields, this is one of
the first bequests, unrestricted in its use,
designed to fill the University needs on a
broader level.

Mrs. Freda Manishen of Manchester,
N.H., has established the James Manishen
Collection to memorialize her late hus-
band who was for many years active in
civic and communal endeavors.

WOMEN'S COMMITTEE DELEGATES
ATTEND SECOND ANNUAL CONVOCATION

KEY BRANDEIS WOMEN are picl/ired dining the Second Aiintial Convocal'ion
Exercises ti'hich also concluded the annual women's Conference. Left to right are Mrs.
Harry L. Michaels, President of the National Women's Committee of Brandeis University
and its Founder; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Board Member of the University; and Mrs.
Max Slater who served as Chairman of the W^omen's Committee Conference.

CHICAGO W^OMEN'S MEMBERSHIP

DRIVE N EARING 1500 ENROLLEES

A series of membership teas has resulted
in a membership figure of almost 1,500
for the Chicago Women's Committee
Chapter. Chicago has already accounted
for more than $10,000 in funds trans-
ferred to the University for support of the
Library and for the underwriting of four
chairs in the Humanities.

Particular success has been realized in
promoting the Books for Brandeis pro-
gram in Chicago, whereby members me-
morialize individuals or celebrate special
occasions by direct contributions to the
Library. Such gifts receive permanent rec-

ognition through special bookplates which
go into the volumes that are purchased.

Chicago officers, responsible for the
rapid growth of their organization are
the following Mesdames: Maurice Mandel,
President; Philip Sachs and Arnold Ep-
stein, Vice Presidents; Benjamin Sherman,
Treasurer; A. Morris Krensky, Assistant
Treasurer; Jacob Braude, Corresponding
Secretary; Kate Sherman, Recording Sec-
retary; Melvin Afremow, Financial Sec-
retary; and Milton H. Callner, Book Fund
Chairman.

GREATER BOS-
TON'S CHAPTER

of the National
Women's Commit-
tee sounds the key-
note for its sister
chapters with a
total membership
of 3600 including
"i 50 Life Members.
Mrs. bring Abrams,
president of the
Chapter, chats with
lienny Friedman,
Brandeis Director
uf Athletics, -who
was the guest
spealser at the
Chapter's annual
meeting recently.

PROVIDENCE CLAIMS

MEMBERSHIP LAURELS

Women of the Providence Women's
Committee Chapter claim that their
group in the Capital of the nation's
smallest state has the largest pro-
portionate membership of any com-
munity in the country. Their most
recent membership figures listed 595
Annual Members and 14 Life Members.
Leadership in Providence has been
provided by Mrs. Louis Kramer, Presi-
dent; Mrs. Saul Feinberg, Vice Presi-
dent: Mrs. Archie Fain, Secretary; Mrs.
Siedert Goldowsky, Financial Secre-
tary; and Mrs. Max Greenbaum,
Treasurer.

NEW HAVEN LEADS

IN NUTMEG STATE

Connecticut State's leading Women's
Committee Chapter is New Haven, report-
ing over 500 members and placing itself
in the New England membership enroll-
ment vanguard. New Haven activities,
under the direction of Mrs. Arthur You-
man. President, are expanding to include
the neighboring communities of Ansonia,
Derby, Seymour and Milford.

Chapter officers who direct New Haven
activity are, in addition to Mrs. Youman,
Mrs. Abraham Weissman, Treasurer, and
Mrs. Waldo Eisner, Book Fund Chairman.

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

PROSKAUER, ROSENMAN, LEVY,
LEHMAN, HEAD N. Y. ASSOCIATES

LAUNCHING THE NEW YORK CITY ASSOCIATES .11 thtir ckirler memhenhip met/zi/x
at the Hotel Commodore in June were, left to right. Norman S. Goetz. toastmasler: Dr. Abram L.
Sachar: Mrs. Adele RosenwaU Levy: and Dr. Isador Lubin. Chairman of the Dinner Committee.

Culminating a month of activities on
behalf of Brandeis, more than 400 charter
members of the New York City Chapter
of the Brandeis Associates gathered early
in June at the Hotel Commodore for their
initial meeting under the chairmanship of
Dr. Isador Lubin, consultant to the State
Department and a member of the Univer-
sity Board of Trustees.

Maurice J. Tobin, United States Secre-
tary of Labor and George Alpert, Presi-
dent of the Brandeis Board, addressed the
group, and Norman S. Goetz, Past Presi-
dent of the Federation of Jewish Philan-
thropies of New York City and a Trustee
of the State University of New York,
served as toastmaster. Other addresses were
delivered by Dr. Max Lerner, Professor of
American Civilization at Brandeis, and by
Dr. Abram L. Sachar, President of the
University. A student panel representing
the varied activities of the University was
a highlight of the evening's program.

Among the eminent New Yorkers serv-
ing as Honorary Chairmen of the commit-
tee organizing the new chapter are Judge
Samuel L Rosenman, advisor to Presidents
Roosevelt and Truman; Judge Joseph M.
Proskauer, member of the Brandeis Board
of Trustees and Honorary National Pres-
ident of the American Jewish Committee;
Senator Herbert H. Lehman, former Gov-
ernor of New York; and Mrs. Adele
Rosenwald Levy.

Honorary Vice Chairmen of the organ-
izing group included: Louis Broido, ex-
ecutive of Gimbel Brothers; Max Doft,
of the Princeton Knitting Mills; Irving
M. Engel, attorney; Abraham Feinberg, of
Jac Feinberg Hosiery Mills, Inc.; Andrew
Goodman, of Bergdorf-Goodman; Col.
Harry D. Henshel, executive of the Bulova
Watch Company; Benjamin Hutner, of

BREITMAN FAMILY GIVES
PHYSICS LABORATORY

Research in the sciences at Brandeis
University advances another step with the
announcement of the construction of the
Breitman Family Physics Laboratory. The
Laboratory will be housed in the Science
Hall Annex, now under construction.

To be built with completely modern
physics equipment, the Laboratory repre-
sents the gift of the family of Samuel
Breitman including his brothers, Abraham
and David; his wife Fannie Breitman; and
his children, Leonard Breitman, Mrs. Phil-
ip Neiman and Mrs. Carl Ginsburg. Mr.
Breitman is a prominent shoe manufac-
turer and philanthropist of Lynn, Mass.

Blueprints for the Science Hall Annex
include, along with the Breitman Family
Physics Laboratory, an atomic physics lab-
oratory, a physics demonstration room, a
biology laboratory, four classrooms, a pho-
tographic darkroom, and faculty offices.

A formal dedication ceremony in the fall
will mark the opening of the Breitman
Family Physics Laboratory for use in the
Brandeis science program.

Consolidated Retail Stores, Inc.; Andre
Meyers, of Lazare Freres, Bankers; Max
Ogust, Director of the Free Sons of Israel;
Joseph Pulvermacher, of the Sterling Na-
tional Bank; James N. Rosenberg, attorney;
Hon. Benjamin Shalleck, Judge; Hon.
Meier Steinbrink, Judge in the New York
State Supreme Court; Walter W. Weis-
mann, executive of the Aetna Industrial
Corporation; and Harry Zeitz, executive
of Martin's Department Store in Brooklyn.

RESEARCH FUND CREATED

Max Feinberg Heads Donor List

An Anniversary Research Fund, provid-
ing the means through which contributors
may find an outlet for donations to com-
memorate personal or family anniversaries,
has been established and approved by the
Brandeis Board of Trustees.

The first contribution to the newly cre-
ated Fund, which will underwrite teaching
fellowships in the field of science, has
been made in honor of the birthday of
Max Feinberg, of West Newton, Mass.
Donors to the Fund will be honored an-
nually on the birthday anniversary of Jus-
tice Louis Dembitz Brandeis in special ex-
ercises to be held by the University.

Mr. Feinberg, whose name will head
the list of the Anniversary Research Fund
volume, is a member of the Brandeis
University Associates and previously con-
tributed $5,000 to Brandeis.

Statistically Speaking . . .

The story of a great university can never
be told in terms of statistics; it must be
a record of quality and integrity ....
Reports compiled at the close of the aca-
demic year 1949-50, however, do reveal
an array of significant facts .... The
membership of the National Women's
Committee increased by 300"^'^ over that
for the preceding year .... The number
of communities organizing local chapters
of the Women's Committees increased by
400^ r .... To date, individuals residing
in more than 200 communities throughout
the nation have made gifts to the Univer-
sity .... ranging from Presque Isle,
Maine, to Spokane, Washington and from
Oshkosh, 'Wisconsin, to Lepanto, P.I. (a
sub-province of Mountain Province of the
Philippine Islands) . . . Twice as many
communities were recorded this year as
compared with last year .... The num-
ber of courses offered by the University
in ■49-'50 was 42 — in '5u-'51 it will be
196 .... More than 65% of the Univer-
sity's gifts last year came from outside of
New England — more than 80'^ r from
outside Boston .... George Alpert, Pres-
ident of the University's Board of Trus-
tees, travelled over 40,000 miles last year
in the interests of Brandeis .... The
Louisville, Kentucky, Women's Committee
Chapter lists a Roman Catholic priest as
a Life Member .... The University will
double its dormitory capacity this summer
with the construction of the Ridgewood
Apartments .... Next year's student
body will represent 28 states and six for-
eign nations .... In the past year the
unique story of Brandeis University was
featured in TIME Magazine, NEWS-
WEEK Magazine, QUICK Magazine and
several Anglo-Jewish publications ....
The nation is watching the growth of "the
University with a mission."

Presswork, Courtesy of Daniels Printing Co., Boston

FFICIAL PUBLICATIDIV DF BHAMDEIS UNIVERSITY

FRESHMAN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

September 30 Maine Mariiime Academy

October 6

Boston College

October 1 4

Harvard University

October 21

Brewsicr Academy

October 28

Spr

ingfield College J. V.

November 4

Open

November 10

Boston University

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

BRANDEIS FRESHMAN FOOTBALL TEAM DEBUT
LAUNCHES INTERCOLLEGIATE COMPETITION

Coach Benny Friedman Trains Athletes For Grid Games With Seven Colleges

Brandeis kicks off in the intercollegiate
athletic scene on September 30, when the
Brandeis freshman eleven tangles with the
Maine Maritime Academy football team.
The grid game signals the initiation of an
impressive sports schedule which also in-
cludes basketball, baseball and soccer.

Underwriting the newly-launched ath-
letic program is the Brandeis Athletic
Association under the chairmanship of
Joseph Linsey, prominent Boston beverage
manufacturer and sports enthusiast. The
youngest of the University's auxiliary or-
ganizations, the Athletic Association is at-
tracting support from individuals and
groups throughout the nation.

Athletic Director Benny Friedman and
Line Coach George Keneally, who have
been working out with the Brandeis ath-
letes indicate that the team will be in top
physical condition by the time they meet
their iirst grid opponent on September 30
in Castine, Maine. Members of the team,
Mr. Friedman pointed out, have acquitted
themselves admirably in secondary school
in both athletic and academic activities.

The completion of the Abraham Marcus
Atheletic Field and the Abraham Shapiro
Athletic Center will enable the Brandeis
teams to meet their opponents on the
Waltham campus. Pending completion of
the athletic plant, all games for the 1950-
^ 1 season will be played away.

I'ISITING the cjm-
pus. Judge Joseph M.
Proskj»er. left, mem-
ber of the Board of
Trustees. chats with
Dr. Abram L. Sachar,
Brandeis President, cen-
ter, and George Alpert.
President of the Board
of Trustees. In the
background are the
battlements of The
Castle, major building
and landmark of the
University.

MORRIS SHAPIRO APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
OF BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS COMMITTEE

The appointment
of Morris S. Shapiro,
member of the
Brandeis Board of
Trustees and promi-
nent Boston manu-
facturer, as Chair-
man of the Com-
mittee on Scholar-
ships and Aid of the ^'"■''' ^''"P'"'
Board, has been announced by George
Alpert, President of the Board of Trustees.
In his capacity as chairman, Mr. Shapiro
will work with members of his committee
in formulating policy regarding the re-
ceipt of scholarship funds by the University.

Upon assuming the chairmanship, Mr.
Shapiro disclosed that more than 150
scholarships and other forms of financial
aid have been awarded for the academic
year 1950-51, 67 of them to freshmen.
Last year, Mr. Shapiro further revealed,
85 scholarships were awarded to 25 per-
cent of the student body, totalling $36,135.

In the coming year at least one-third of
the student body will receive scholarships
or other forms of financial aid totalling
more than $65,000, of which $26,000 will
go to members of the incoming class. Of
the upper-class students who will receive
aid, Mr. Shapiro's report continued, 50
percent of the juniors and 40 percent of
the sophomores are on the Dean's List.
Financial aid to students includes scholar-
ships, bursaries, grants-in-aid, loans and
employment.

Mr. Shapiro, a resident of Boston for
more than forty years, heads the Trimount
Clothing Company. He has held offices in
the Associated Jewish Philanthropies and
the Combined Jewish Appeal.

ISRAELI YOUTH AWARDED
SCHWARTZ FELLOWSHIP

The first student exchange between
Brandeis University and Israel will be re-
alized this year with the award of the
Ida Hillson Schwartz Exchange Fellowship
to 16-year-old Eliyahu Ahilea of Jeru-
salem. The young Israeli student was
directed to Brandeis by Leonard Bernstein,
who recently visited in Israel on a con-
ducting tour. Mr.
Bernstein is a mem-
ber of the Univer-
sity's Educational
Policies Committee
for Music.

The Schwartz Fel-
lowship, established
■ '- -^ last year by Elias

L,., :.,•./ Bunsiein EJ^ard Schwartz of
Somerville, Mass., with his four children
in honor of his late wife, provides for a
gifted Israeli student to spend a year at
Brandeis, or for a Brandeis student to
study in Israel.

A talented conductor in his own right,
Eliyahu Ahilea has twice conducted the
Orchestra of the Israel Broadcasting Serv-
ice, both on the air and publicly. He is
the winner of the only scholarship awarded
by the Israeli government to student music
conductors.

The awarding of the Schwartz Fellow-
ship fulfills the hopes expressed by Israeli
Ambassador Eliahu Elath that Brandeis
University might serve as "a source for
close cooperation and better understanding
between the United States and the people
of Israel."

MICHAEL TUCH DIES AT 74

Educational Benefactor Mourned

The founder of
the Michael Tuch
Chair in Hebrew
Literature and Eth-
ics at Brandeis died
September 2 at his
home in Brooklyn,
N.Y., after a long
'l'"ess. Michael Tuch

As early as 1917
Mr. Tuch became well known as an
eminent benefactor of educational and
philanthropic institutions. He established
the Michael Tuch Foundation which an-
nually makes contributions to a substantial
number of charitable and educational
institutions.

The Michael Tuch chair at Brandeis
permits the University to strengthen the
area of Hebrew concentration established
at the University's inception in 1948. This
will serve as a lasting memorial to the late
philanthropist's lifetime of community
service. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Tessie Tuch, and two sisters.

NEW SERIES, VOL. I, NO. I

SEPTEMBER, 1950

Official publication of Brandeis Lhiiventty puhliihed IH times during the year (once in the months of September. November and February: tu-ice in the months of October.
December. January, .March. April and July: three times in the month of May) at Brandeis Unnersily. 41) South Street. Waltham S4. Mass. Application for entry as second
Class matter at Boston. Aiass., is pending.

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

NOTES ON
c/ne Vi/onien s Coitiiuitfee

Eighty new Life Members have been
added to the rolls of the Greater Boston
Chapter, following a highly successful
Life Membership Luncheon last month.
The Luncheon was held at Tower Hill
Farm in Plymouth, Mass., the summer
estate of Mrs. Jack London, Boston's
Chairman of Life Membership. Mrs.
William Talcoff and Mrs. David Karp,
Vice Presidents in charge of the Lunch-
eon, and Mrs. Edward Canter, Trans-
portation Chairman, recommend this
type of function for increasing member-
ship. Mrs. Irving Abrams heads the
Greater Boston Chapter which now
boasts 516 Life Members and a total
membership of close to 4,000.

Manchester, N.H., women hold their
annual membership meeting on October
10 and will be addressed by Mrs. Max
Katz, National Membership Chairman and
Board Member. The chapter, which cele-
brates Its first anniversary this month, is
headed by Mrs. Leonard V. Finder.

On September 19th, leading women in
the Philadelphia community gathered for
an organizational meeting to lay the
ground-work for the formation of a
Women's Committee chapter in that city.
George Alpert, President of the Llni-
versity's Board of Trustees, will bring
the story of Brandeis to the group.

Two of the youngest chapters will be
holding their first membership meetings
next month and will be addressed by
Dr. Sachar. The Detroit Chapter, headed
by Mrs. Oscar Zemon, President Pro-Tem,
meets on October 16 at Temple Beth-El,
and the Cincinnati women, whose presi-
dent is Mrs. Philip Meyers, will meet
on the 30th.

Upstate New York boasts two recently-
formed chapters, one in Schenectady with
Mrs. Wiliia.-r. Golub, President, and the
other in Syracuse where Mrs. Joseph
Kallet presides.

Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx Chap-
ters will meet jointly on October 17 at
the Concourse Plaza Hotel. Presidents of
these chapters are Mrs. S. S. Allen, Man-
hattan; Mrs. S. Charles Gardner, Brooklyn;
and Mrs. Samuel Gattegno, Bronx.

Way down south in New Orleans the
League of Jewish Women is sponsoring
a meeting of community leaders to or-
ganize a chapter in the delta city. Dr.
Sachar will review the University's past
two years and outline its future at the
October 1 1 gathering.

The Lynn, Mass., Chapter is mobilizing
for a fall membership campaign and will
sponsor a series of special functions for
both Annual and Life Members, and for
prospective members. Mrs. Ellis Michel-
son is President of the chapter.

ADELE ROSENWALD LEVY NAMED

TO BRANDEIS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Mrs. Adele Ro-
senwald Levy of
New York, daughter
of the late Julius
Rosenwald, has been
elected to the Bran-
deis Board of Trus-
tees, George Alpert,
President of the
Board, has an-

Mrs. Levy

nounced. She joins Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
as the only women serving on the Board.

Mrs. Levy was the first Chairman of
the National Women's Division of the
United Jewish Appeal, organized in 1946,
and served in that capacity for two years.
She has served for many years on the
Board of Directors of the Greater New
York United Jewish Appeal. Her active
concern with refugees and displaced per-
sons prompted her to accept the Vice
Chairmanship of the Citizens Committee
on Displaced Persons.

A prominent sponsor of civic, cultural
and educational projects, Mrs. Levy is
noted for her work in the field of child

care. She is President of the Citizens
Committee on Children of New York City
and was designated by President Truman
to the Executive Committee of the Mid-
Century White House Conference on
Children and Youth, to be held in
December.

The wife of the eminent child psychi-
atrist Dr. David M. Levy, Mrs. Levy is
the mother of two sons. She is Chairman
of the Child Care Committee of the Com-
munity Service Society and serves as a
member of the Boards of the Play Schools
Association, Youth House, the New York
City Youth Board, the Good Neighbor
Federation and the Lavanburg Foundation.

Among the cultural and civic organiza-
tions with which she is affiliated are the
Museum of Modern Art, of which she is
a member of the Board of Directors; and
the Civic Legislative League of New York
State, where she serves on the Executive
Committee. She is also a member of the
Mayors Advisory Committee on Business
Administration of the New York City
Department of Welfare.

BLUMBERG MATHEMATICS COLLECTION
ACQUIRED BY BRANDEIS LIBRARY

KEY FIGURES at last month's meeting of

North Shore, Mass., community leaders are,
Louis Salvage, left, and Harry Remis who
chaired the meeting. Close to 100 men who
attended -will he the charter members of the
newly-launched North Shore Associates Chapter
under the chairmanship of Mr. Remis. The
communities represented are Beverly, Lynn,
i\i.irhlehead. Peabody. Salem and Saugui.

The 15 00- volume mathematics collection
of the late Professor Harry Blumberg of
Ohio State University, who ranked as one
of the foremost mathematicians in the
country until his death this year, has been
recently acquired by the Brandeis Library.

The gift of this extensive collection of
texts and significant publications in the
theory and development of mathematical
science to Brandeis was arranged by Mrs.
Alfred Kobacker, President of the Colum-
bus Chapter of the National Women's
Committee, an associate for many years of
the Blumberg family, and by Professor
A. M. Schultz, of the Ohio State Univer-
sity Romance Languages Department.

Professor Blumberg was connected with
Ohio State University for 25 years and
organized its graduate school in mathemat-
ics. The only American to receive a Doc-
tor of Philosophy degree ciitn laiide from
Gottingen University in Germany, he was
a frequent contributor of important articles
to outstanding mathematics journals.

The Columbus Chapter of the Women's
Committee, one of the youngest chapters
in the country, has already made remark-
able progress under the leadership of Mrs.
Kobacker both in recruiting members and
in contributing toward fulfilling the goals
of the Women's Committee.

BRANDEIS BULLETIN

KAHN NAMED NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATES

RISING FAST, enrollment in the Canton.
O.. Chapter was accelerated by an intensive
membership campaign and now numbers 188
including W Life Members. Mrs. Paul Heller.
right, IS President and Mrs. Norton Levin, left,
is Book Fund Chairman.

The appointment
of Milton Kahn, na-
tionally recognized
leader in communal
and philanthropic ac-
tivities, as National
Chairman of the
Brandeis University
Associates has been Milton a <

announced by George Alpert, President
of the Brandeis Board of Trustees.

Mr. Kahn's appointment highlights the
growth of the Associates, whose rapid ex-
pansion since their launching last Decem-
ber now warrants national leadership for
the organization. Mr. Kahn has ser\'ed
until now as Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Greater Boston Chapter.

FIRST PHILADELPHIA BRANDEIS MEETING
GEARED FOR KEYSTONE STATE SUPPORT

FRANK WEIL, NOTED LAWYER,

DONATES FIRST EDITIONS

A collection of first editions of the
works of John Galsworthy and Lafcadio
Hearn, many of them autographed by
the authors and richly bound, has been
donated to the Brandeis Library by
Frank L. Weil, proininent New York
lawyer.

Mr. Weil is co-founder and director
of the United Service Organizations
and President of the National Jewish
Welfare Board since 1940. He is Chair-
man of the President's Committee on
Religion and Moral Welfare in the
Armed Forces.

More than 200 Philadelphia community
leaders will gather for their first meeting
in the interests of Brandeis University on
September 27 at the Warwick Hotel. The
group will serve as the core of support in
Philadelphia and will spark activities in
other sectors of the state.

Speakers at the meeting, who will bring
the Brandeis story to Philadelphia, include
Dr. Abram L. Sachar, Brandeis President;
Benny Friedman. Athletic Director; and
Maurice J. Tobin. United States Secretary
of Labor. They will summarize the first
two years of the Universit)'s activities and
outline its future plans.

Among the major offices which the
noted Boston manufacturer has held are -
National Secretary of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare Funds; Na-
tional Chairman for three years of the
United Jewish Appeal Interim and Reso-
lutions Committees; and Vice Chairman
for the past 15 years of the Greater Bos-
ton Community Fund.

Long identified with educational and
charitable activities, Mr. Kahn is past
President of the Associated Jewish Philan-
thropies of Boston and a member of for-
mer Governor Saltonstall's Massachusetts
War Emergency Board. He is a trustee
and member of the Executive Committee
of the Combined Jewish Appeal of
Greater Boston: a trustee and member of
the Executive Committee of the Beth
Israel Hospital; a trustee of the Children's
Hospital; and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Jewish Community
Health Survey, all in Boston.

DR. KOUSSEVITZKY GUIDES

SCHOOL OF MUSIC PLANS

Adolph Ullman, Chairman of the
Friends of the School of Music, and
Brandeis University officials met with Dr.
Serge Koussevitzky last month at Tangle-
wood in Lenox. Mass., to formulate plans
for the Brandeis School of Music. Mr.
Ullman was accompanied by Dr. Abram
L. Sachar, Brandeis President, Dr. Erwin
Bodky, Associate Professor of Music, and
Irs'ing Fine. Lecturer in Music and Com-
poser in Residence. Dr. Koussevitzky is
the University's Consultant in Music.

SAARINEN MASTER PLAN UNDER CONSTRUCTION

RIDGEWOOD APARTMENTS GO UP on the campus to
provide additional residences for doubled enfoUment . Shown above
is a portion of one of the five new dormitory units which will he
readied to house 150 students this fall. These are the first buildings
to be erected as part of the 50-building, $22,000,000 master plan
designed by Saarinen, Saarinen and Associates.

WORK PROCEEDS RAPIDjLY on the construction of Science
Hall Annex, to contain the Breitman Family Physics Laboratory,
an atomic physics laboratory, a physics demonstration room, a
physics laboratory, a biology laboratory, four classrooms, a photo-
graphic darkroom, and faculty offices. 240 freshmen will share these
facilities iiith the 215 upperclassmen.

Presswork, Cojriesy ol Daniels Printing Co.. Boston

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dedication

Only those who go through the aggravation of pioneering know the
tensions under which it is necessary to function. The endless problems

of fund-raising, the planning of facilities within the rigid framework
of a time-schedule, the pressures from people to promote ideas and
schemes and techniques, these and a thousand other problems, large

and small, complicate the pleasant routine of building a university.
But the compensations so far outbalance the headaches that no one
who is privileged to be in the pioneering group really complains.

Every day there are new results, creative, affirmative, to add to the

growing permanent assets. Buildings, facilities, the expanding curric-
ulum, a student body with a keen sense of destiny, a faculty which
relates itself to the whole school rather than to the courses personally

taught, a constituency of devoted friends and well-wishers — all pressed

on by the thrill of initiating, setting standards, creating precedents.
The Brandeis "Review" is in the category of "firsts" that add to the
gratification of pioneering. It begins modestly; it Is a long way from

the superb publications that are the glory of well-established colleges.
But there are years in which to grow — and if such growth depends

on devotion, resourcefulness and high hopes, the first staff, putting

together the first galleys for the first issues, has the necessary quality.

con

Vol. I. No. 3 Oct. 29. 1950

Official Publication of
Brandeis University published
18 times during the year
(once In the months of
September, November, and
February; twice in the months
of October, December, Jan-
uary, March, April and July;
three times in the month of
May) at Brandeis University,
415 South Street, Waltham
54, Mass. Entered as second
class matter at the Post
Office at Boston, Mass.

Cover design by Donis
Asnin; campus photographs
by Ralph Norman.

tents

courage ... in the shadow of war 2

e Class o

f '54 enters 4

the teams of destiny 6

the university library 7

a plan for tomorrow . . . today 8

fostering the brandeis ideal 14

the new faculty at brandeis in 1950 16

idult education 18

the writing faculty 19

brandeis plays host 19

music . . . scored for brandeis .

.20

National President of Tine Women's
since its organization two years ago.
she has successfully guided the
University's auxiliary support. In
Michaels, the mother of two sons.
Committee appears on page 14.

Edith G. Michaels has served as

Committee of Brandeis University
An able and active administrator,
growth of this vital branch of the
private life she is Mrs. tfarry L.
Her article on the National Women's

|;i Adolph Ullman, Chairman of the Friends of the School of Music, is
a leading figure in business and industrial circles in New England.
An avid devotee of music for many years, Mr. Ullman was the leading
,-^ spirit in organizing the Friends of the School of Music and has actively
^L participated in the planning and organizing preliminary to the estab-
^^1 lishment of Brandeis University's School of Music which he writes about
on page 20. Milton Kahn, National Chairman of the Brandeis University
Associates, is nationally known for his philanthropic activities which have
embraced such organizations as the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, Joint Distribution Committee, United Service for New
Americans, and the Associated Jewish Philanthropies of Boston, of which
he is Past President. He reviews the activities of the Associates on page IS.

A member of the
Brandeis University
Board of Trustees,
Mrs. Roosevelt spoke
before more than
6,000 people who as-
sembled on the cam-
pus for the Second
Annual Convocation
Exercises. (Above)
Prior to the Convo-
cation Exercises, Mrs.
Roosevelt was greet-
ed by officers of
the Brandeis United
Nations Collegiate
Council (right), un-
der whose auspices
she addressed the
student body.

courage

It is indeed a sign of faith that so many people
have gathered here to celebrate and show their inter-
est in a university that is scarcely two years old. Those
who come here to study have a very great gift,
because they come to a University that is founded
on the principles of democracy. They come without
being asked questions which, I regret to say, are
asked of many students in many universities. And,
because so many people throughout this nation are
showing their interest in this University, those of us
who feel that one of the most important things in
the world today is to show our belief in democracy
are greatly heartened. What happens in this country
today affects, I think, the great struggle that goes
on between the idea of totalitarianism and the idea
of democracy.

I was Introduced to you as one of your delegates
to the General Assembly of the United Nations, and
I want to talk to you about the responsibility of your
delegates to the United Nations and your responsi-
bility, whether you are students or whether you are
citizens who have passed the years of being enrolled
in a university. We are all students in the world today,
no matter what our age.

This is a changing world and we who live in It have
an obligation to be ever ready to learn, to be ready
at all times to look at new problems and to try to
find solutions to those problems. I heard my husband
say once, when somebody asked him if he knew the
answer to a problem, that he didn't have the faintest
idea what the answer was. But he had complete faith
that somewhere there was a mind that could find
the answers and eventually they would be found. That
is the kind of faith we must have.

You young people are going to live In a troubled
world. You are going to live in a world which will be
In the shadow of war, perhaps for a long time. I
don't think it is enough to have military strength and
economic strength. To win the struggle we must also
have the spiritual and moral strength that is built
through educational institutions such as this, through
courage, through real crusading belief in ideals. We
can have that kind of strength in the United States,
but we have not laid quite enough stress on that side
of the picture. That is what I would like to emphasize,
particularly to the young people who are going to
bear the brunt of the struggle which will go on in
the world for the next few years.

People come to me sometimes and say, "Well, what's

in the shadow of war

Editor's Note: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt delivered the address reprinted on these pages at the Second
Annual Convocation of Brandeis University in May, 1950. Her words assumed ainnost prophetic significance
when, less than a month later, the Korean conflict erupted. Even though a military victory is now assured
to the United Nations forces, the tensions and anxieties underlying the cold war have been heightened.
We believe Mrs. Roosevelt's message has even greater validity today than when she spoke on the Brandeis
campus five months ago.

the use of trying to do certain things? We may be
destroyed at any time." Yes, it's true, we may be.
But if we don't try to do the things that we believe
in, we won't be able to face ourselves if war comes
because we will know that we did not give the very
best we had to the struggle.

I am not going to say that I think the struggle is
not a difficult one, but I am going to say that I
think we can win. I think this great country of ours
can use its strength of every kind in finding solutions
for keeping peace in the world. There are new ap-
proaches to the problems before us and I am sure
there are minds somewhere in the world that can help
us find them. Not tomorrow, perhaps, because the
growth of understanding is slow and the search for
these solutions will try men's souls. It will show how
much fortitude we have to have to live in uncertainty.

Someone came to me the other day and said, "From
our point of view," — it was not a citizen of the
United States — you in the United States are trying
to tell us what our democracy shall be. In a way you
are doing what the communists are doing. You are
practically saying to us, 'Our democracy and eco-
nomic system must be accepted by anyone in the
world who we consider a democratic nation.' " We
must live our democracy and in every way must live
up to the th'ngs that we believe in. We have a right
to fight for the economic system that we believe in,
but we must not confuse our basic beliefs in democracy
with differing but equally valid democratic beliefs in
other countries in the world.

Democracy, after all, means to us freedom of speech,
freedom of religion, freedom of association, the right
to be ourselves, the right to stand up as individual
human beings and be treated with the dignity to
which every human being inherently is entitled. If we
say to the rest of the world, "These are the things
that we want the world to have, " I think that we will
have a very wide acceptance of our beliefs. The world
is hungry for freedom because one of the things that
is destroyed by totalitarian states is democratic

principles. I have heard more often than I can tell
you the accusation that in a communist country
all human beings are equal and are considered equal
but that in our country this is not the case, hlow-
ever, equality is only a promise in the communist
countries. Our country is open to public inspection
and everybody knows what happens here. Whatever
we do that is good can be known throughout the
world. Wherever we fail it will be known equally
throughout the world.

I have had to listen many times to attacks on the
United States because of failures in our democracy.
I have never tried to say that there were not failures.
I think one of the things we should be grateful for Is
that because we have been attacked we have had to
examine our failures. When you are under attack you
cannot grow complacent. You are constantly reminded
that there are many things in your own area of the
world that can bear improvement. I hope that one of
the functions of the student body of this University
will be to see to it that in every community in which
they find themselves they become the center of im-
provement, of better democracy, of real living, of the
things we so often have given lip service to but failed
to live up to when the challenge was before us.

We older people have seen war. We know that no
one wins wars. We know what sorrow and what tragedy
and what possible setback for the whole of civilization
another war would mean. We know that this struggle
is worth everything we have to win. We know it
depends very largely on what we in the United States
do and for that reason I hope this country is going
to have ''he vision to find new ways to meet the prob-
lems of the world, the faith to try new things, the
courage to live in uncertainty. I hope we are going
to grow in intellectual achievement, and I hope that
Brandeis University Is going to be one of the institu-
tions In this nation that will make a great contribution
through Its students and through Its supporters, not
just to the salvation of the United States of America,
but to the salvation of the peoples of the world.

the

Eager and curious, ihe Brandeis
Class of '54, the third freshman
group to enter, arrives on the
campus 240 strong, representing 25
states, Israel and the Netherlands
(top) . . . and initiate Freshman
Orientation Week with the Wel-
coming Dinner and the Reception by
President Sachar (center, left) . . .
Thomas Savage of the Humanities fa-
culty offers suggestions on courses
to Glenda Graham and Joyce
Lorber, both of Miami, Fla., at the
Faculty Reception where students
and professors had the opportunity
to gauge each other for the first
time (center, right) . . . Entering
students acquaint themselves with
beauty spots in the neighborhood
of the campus (bottom). Left to
right are Eliyahu Ahilea of Israel;
Carol Schnali. New Rochelle, N.Y.;
K^arilyn Baker, Atlantic City, N.J.;
Edward Borofsky, Concord, N.H.;
Joan Sherif, New Haven, Conn.; and
Don Feigenbaum, New Britain, Conn.

On the opposite page, (top) Evelyn
Rosenkrantz, Pottsville, Pa., tests
the Frigate Constitution's bell dur-
ing a tour of Boston's rich array of
historic and cultural points of in-
terest, as Robert Samuels of Hous-
ton, Texas, Terry Beck, South Or-
ange, N.J. and Gerald Goldstein,
Woodstock, Vt., stand by . . . Pretty
Maureen Kerrigan of Fall River,
Mass., receives registration instruc-
tions (center) from Dr. Edith Mot-
tow as other entering freshmen
await their turn . . . Then the blow
falls, and a three day ordeal of
preliminary screening examinations
divulges the shocking fact that teas
and receptions and outings ore only
incidental to a college education,
(bottom)

class of '54

(

enters

freshman data

The 240 members of the freshman
class hail from 25 states and two
foreign nations, many of them the
first students in their areas to
attend Brandeis. Included in the
newly-enrolled class is the first Ida
Hillson Schwartz Exchange Fellow-
ship recipient from Israel and a
student from the Netherlands.

Their records reveal that 50 mem-
bers of the incoming docs were
members of secondary school honor
societies and 73 — or almost one-
third of the entering class — were
the recipients of scholastic awards
for outstanding achievements in
language, literature, the sciences
or the arts.

Brandeis will hove 107 high school
athletes, most of them winners of
tetters and awards, 24 of them
former sports team captains. Among
the freshmen athletes are a number
of sports-minded women students
who will carry the Brandeis blue
and white into the traditional com-
petitive areas.

Several of the 40 musically pro-
ficient members of the Class of '54
were leaders of chamber music
ensembles, and all 40 were members
of orchestras, bonds and choruses
while they were in high school.
Many received awards from the
music training schools which they
attended.

Among the freshmen exhibiting lit-
erary talents are 37 former editors
and 52 former staff members of
high school organs. They will aug-
ment the reporting and monoging
staffs of the Brandeis student pub-
lications. The Justice and The Turret.

More then 50 percent of the class,
or 124, were officers of prep school
clubs and societies and 47 were
high school class presidents or of-
ficers.

the teams of destiny

Quarterback Fran Cowgill,
star back on the Brandeis
freshman squad before being
lost for the season as the
result of a second-game in-
jury against the Boston Col-
lege freshmen, uses a
straight arm very effective-
ly to ward off a Maine Mar-
itime Academy tackier dur-
ing the 37-7 opening victory
at Castine, Me. (above)

In the starting lineup for the
Harvard gome were Bob
Ryan, right end; Mort Gold-
fader, right tackle: Ed Man-
aaniello, right guard; Roland
Trudeau, center; Ray Gil-
bert, left guard; Bob Pierce,
left tackle; and Bob Griffin,
left end; backfield: Dick
Jones, right halfback; Bill
Cunningham, quarterback;
Sid Goldfader, fullback; and
Dick Collins, left halfback,
(right, top)

Fullback Sid Goldfader,
whose tank-like sprints in-
side and outside the Har-
vard yearling line played a
major role in the vital ifresh-
man victory over Harvard
'54 on Soldiers Field, pre-
pares to bang out another
first down on his own 45-
yard line despite the wall of
Crimson defenders. Goldfad-
er scored one T.D., set up
two others in the smashing
21-13 upset over Harvard,
(bottom, right)

The Initiation of the Brandeis athletic program pre-
sents a challenge which the University expects to meet
on a level of achievement commensurate with Its high
academic aims. The recognition of the athletic poten-
tial of Brandeis by such schools as Dartmouth, hiarvard,
Boston College, Boston University, West Point, MIT,
and others echoes the accord already granted tha
University in academic endeavors.

With the intercollegiate freshman sports already
successfully launched, Brandeis Athletic Director Benny
Friedman Is scheduling varsity competition for next
year. The opening varsity football game will take place
in 1951 on the Waltham campus against the University
of New Hampshire. These first Brandeis teams have
been termed "teams of destiny" for they will Inaugurate
a sports tradition which will shape the future of Brandeis
athletic prowess.

the university library

In the land of the giant steps

Three thousand to forty thousand is quite a jump in
anything, almost any place. On the Brandels campus,
however, it means a successful project in books — books
gathered from all over the world at a rate that would
border on the unbelievable if the tireless efforts of
the University's National Women's Committee were
not so well known.

Here in the. land of the giant steps, the Library set
out with a 3,000-volume library to serve as the intel-
lectual heart of the campus. Now, at the outset of the
University's third academic year, the number of vol-
umes has increased more than twelve-fold; and among
these are several excellent acquisitions, the lifetime col-
lections of many eminent scholars. In research value
and prestige, the new collections spell an impressive
beginning for the Library of Brandeis University in the
academic world.

Of particular value to the University is the 4,000-
volume library of the late George A. Barton, prominent
author and professor of Semitic languages at the
University of Pennsylvania. The collection of volumes
and papers on Near Eastern archaeology and the his-
tory of religion is considered the most complete of
Its kind in the United States.

Added to this is the complete library of the late
Dr. Leon Slonlmsky, well known Hebrew scholar and
educator, which forms the core of a fine collection of
Hebraica. Among the 3,000 volumes are the rare Pales-
tinian Talmud and books and journals of Jewish phil-
osophy and poetry. Of extreme value are the volumes
and journals from the extensive library of Dr. Augusta
Bronner and Dr. William Healy, international authorities
on child psychology and juvenile delinquency. Another
collection Is that of the late Will Cuppy, author and
New York Herald Tribune critic, whose books ranged
from the natural sciences to general history and art.

The Library is fortunate, too, in receiving various
funds which open new avenues for expansion. One of
such gifts has been the Lena Seltlen Memorial Collec-
tion In Art, made possible through the late Miss Self-
len's family who made the balance of her estate avail-
able to the University for the establishment of the
first group of books on art in the Brandels Library. The
gift from Dr. Charles Kremer of music books and or-
chestral and choral scores is another excellent acquisi-
tion. Books have also come from the publishers Bennelt
Cerf and Alfred Knopf.

Measured In any terms, the progress of the Univer-
sity Library continues in giant steps, but at Brandeis
great strides are the accepted, not the exception.

The Brandeis University
Library is housed in an
ivy-covered stone build-
ing to which a stacic-
wing with c 40,000-vol-
ume capacity and worlc-
room space was an-
nexed last year. The
main building is fur-
nished with a reading
end catalogue room.

When a new acquisition
arrives on the campus,
student assistants carry
piles of books into the
library. After the books
are inventoried and
processed, they are
placed on the shelves
for student and faculty
study and research. Stu-
dent assistants worked
in the Library during
the summer, helping to
ready the shelves and
catalogue for use dur-
ing the academic year.

In the workroom, Mr.
William Leobowitz, Bran-
deis Librarian (right),
superintends the proc-
essing and cataloguing
of n e w I y - a c q u i r e d
books. The Librarian
ond his assistant, Louis
Schreiber, (left) also
prepare buying lists of
books and periodicals
essential to the broad-
ened curriculum and re-
search needs.

a plan for tomorrow —

Two sketches o<
Saarinen Master Plan
buildings of the fu-
ture Brandeis Uni-
versity campus are
reproduced below.
From top to bottom,
The first shows the
interior of the Li-
brary; next, the stage
of the theater which
will be a part of
the projected Crea-
tive Arts Center.

by Dr. David S. Berkowitz,

Director of University Planning

The appearance last winter of a
handsome brochure, "A Foundation
For Learning — Planning the Campus
of Brandeis University," simultane-
ously marked both an ending and a
beginning. The ending represented
the culmination of plans and idea
conceived in the early history of thf
University; and the beginning signalized our hopes for
the University's future as embodied in Its physical fabric.

From the moment of the University's inception, the
Trustees have necessarily been involved in considering
the future growth of our educational enterprise. All
concerned were well aware of the significant difference
between activating and developing a university. It was
apparent that for the immediate future Brandeis would
be more a university in the process of "becoming"
than in "being." This distinction became a vital one
for our Trustees because it threw great emphasis on the
relationship between planning and growth.

In order, therefore, to develop a physical structure
for the University consonant with its academic ideals,
the firm of Saarinen, Saarinen and Associates was
commissioned to design the master plan that at once
embodies and enhances those ideals. When the de-
velopment of the campus is completed in ten years
the University will have 50 new buildings with an
estimated total valuation of $22,000,000. The future
campus will encompass facilities for the Brandeis Uni-
versity Faculty of Arts and Sciences and for the
University's projected professional and graduate schools.

Behind the exciting artistry of the plans presented
by Saarinen, Saarinen and Associates were months of
Intense activity by University officials and the Board
of Trustees. The fundamental decisions to be made
hinged on such basic Issues as the educational phlloso-

today

"My associates and I have discovered that
miracles are performed by people. In a true
sense we have become a community enter-
prise — the more collaborators, the greater
the likelihood of success. The accomplish-
ments speak for themselves. We recognize
we must continue our ambitious building
program if we are to realize our cherished
conception of a solid foundation for learning
at Brondeis." Meyer Jaffe, Member of the
Board of Trustees and Chairman of the
Building Committee.

"The design of a group of buildings of the
right character to answer the particular
problem of Brondeis University is one of
the most interesting challenges an architect
can have. If a hundred years from now the
buildings at Brondeis University ore serving
their purpose well, if they are recognized
as true expressions of their day and of the
heritage of Jewish culture . . . then we, gs
architects, will have done a good job." Eero
Saarinen, Saorinen, Saarinen and Associates.

phy of Brandeis University, the organizational structure
and the administration of the curriculum in both the
undergraduate and graduate levels, and the size and
composition of the University at its maximum growth.

The first phase of the master plan study had barely
been completed when it became necessary to solve
the foreseeable demand for additional facilities. The
rapid growth of the University in its second year of
operation and the expansion contemplated for the third
year brought into clear focus the need for dormitories,
classrooms and a host of specialized facilities, such as
additional laboratory space.

The dormitory problem was studied first and in
November, 1949, the Board of Trustees authorized its
Building Committee, composed of Meyer Jaffe, Chair-
man, and Messrs. George Alpert and Jacob Shapiro,
to provide five new dormitories to house 160 students.
Construction of the residence cluster was begun shortly
after the Board's authorization and readied for use
with the opening of the University's third academic
year this fall. Only a few finishing touches are needed
to complete these modern and practical residence
halls, which provide Brandeis students with attractive
quarters for living, for study, and for social develop-
ment.

While paper was thus translated into brick and
buildings sprang up from the drafting board, studies
continued on the second phase of the master planning
report. By the early summer of 1950 the Saarinen firm
had completed preliminary design studies for the loca-
tion of the Marcus Playing Field and for the proposed
Abraham Shapiro Athletic Center. Tractors and huge
bulldozers have been transforming the 27-acre Memphis
Tract acquired recently into the athletic grounds which
will next year be the scene of the University's varsity

sports contests, launched this year on the intercollegiate
freshman level. Upon the completion of the Marcus
Playing Field, construction will begin on the Shapiro
Athletic Center which will serve as the core of the
Brandeis athletic program. Architects' drawings pro-
vide three basketball courts with a seating capacity of
3,000, squash courts, and gymnastic facilities to include
locker and shower rooms, wrestling and steam rooms,
and offices for the athletic staff. The plans also call
for the eventual construction of two connecting build-
ings which will contain a swimming pool and a small
gymnasium for women students.

As the Memphis Tract is being reclaimed for athletic
facilities the Science hiall Annex Is nearing completion.
Among the additional facilities which the Annex pro-
vides are the Breitman Family Physics Laboratory, an
atomic physics laboratory, a physics demonstration
room, a biology laboratory, classrooms, a photographic
darkroom and faculty offices.

The emergence from the blueprint stage of the
Creative Arts Center is to be the next building project
on the campus. In order to provide for greater integra-
tion and exchange of experience among the arts, the
Music, Drama, Art and Speech programs will be
housed in one structure, linking the classrooms, studios
and theatre to the auditorium. This physical design
symbolizes the aesthetic unity of all the arts.

Thus in the third year of its history, Brandeis Univer-
sity has established the dimensions for guiding its
growth on the foundations which had been so firmly laid
during the half-way turning point of the Twentieth
Century. The academic and physical fabric which is
being built on these foundations will attest to the
soundness of the Brandeis educational ideals in the
coming decades.

the

future

campus

The design for the expansion of Brandeis
University, prepared by the international-
ly prominent architectural firm of
Saarinen, Saarinen and Associates, pro-
vides facilities for both undergraduate
and graduate study. The proposed 50
buildings of the College of Arts and
Science and the School of Advanced
Studies include the Library, the Creative
Arts Center, Brandeis Union and Chapel,
Science Building and residence hails. On
the followfing page is the architect's
sketch identifying the major buildings of
the future campus.

the

residence

halls

The attractive and
functional residence
halls, begun immedi-
ately after the an-
nouncement of the Saa-
rinen master plan,
were completed last
month for the opening
of the University's
third academic year.
Comprising five mod-
ern units, The Ridge-
wood Apartments are
designed to provide
proper conditions for
living, for study, and
for social development.
These living quarters,
of which a portion of
the facade is here
shown, further pro-
vide an adequate set-
ting for the funda-
mentally important
educational aims of
attaining individual
resourcefulness and
social maturity.

key to

future campus

pictured on

preceding

page

MEKS RESIDENCES
DININC; HAIL
RESIDENCE HALL
RESIDENCE HALL
RESIDENCE HAll

FINE ARTS

THEATRE

DRAMA

AUDITORIUM

EXHIBITION HAll

MUSK

SPEECH

AMPHIIHEATliE
EXISTING CLASSKOOM (UllDING

WOMEN S RESIDENCES
RESIDENCE HUl
DININC HAll
RESIDENCE HAll
RESIDENCE HALL

the

creative arts center

The special facilities required for fhe instruction of Music, Art,
Drama and Speech will be housed in ths Creative Arts Center, thereby
preserving a physical unity which symbolizes Ihe aesthetic impact of
all the arts. In order to provide for greater integration and exchange
of experience among the arts, the classrooms, studios and theater are
linked to the auditorium in a modern and functional design. The Crea-
tive Arts Center will be the focal point for endeavors in every area
of artistic expression. Concerts, exhibits and theatrical productions,
the end products of these endeavors, will attest to the superior training
and facilities which will become identified with the Brandeis University
Creative Arts Center.

fostering the brandeis

by Edith G. Michaels

Shortly before Brandeis University formally opened
Its doors, women everywhere were evincing such a deep
interest in the concept and ideals of the University and
expressing so great a desire to participate in its de-
velopment that upon the request of George Alpert,
President of the Board of Trustees, I undertook the
formation of the Women's Committee.

Enthusiasm for the new University was spreading
throughout the country when over fifty Greater Boston
women met to formulate policies for the proposed
Committee. The women present pledged their support
in helping to form an organization, on a membership
basis only, to serve the best interests of Brandeis.

As Its first specific task, the Women's Committee
assumed the responsibility of creating and fostering the
Brandeis Library, determined that it should meet all
the highest standards of university libraries throughout
the country. It was essential that at the beginning of the
first academic year the library shelves be filled with
the volumes needed by the students to further their
education. Before the members of the first class ar-
rived, the Brandeis Library was well equipped to meet
their needs, for the Women's Committee had already
given $10,000 to the University.

By now the number of books in the Library has in-

creased from 3,000 to more than 40,000. Commensurate
with the growth of the Library was the Committee's
membership which now totals over 16,000, including
1200 Life members, with 49 chapters in 22 states.

In Its two years of operation, the National Women's
Committee has made available to the University a
total of $177,000 comprised solely of membership fees,
both the five-dollar annual memberships and the
hundred-dollar Life memberships. In addition to sup-
porting the University Library, the Committee has now
established Four Chairs in the hlumanlties. This addi-
tional task was undertaken with pride, for the Com-
mittee members thus became even more active partici-
pants in the growth of the University.

The National Women's Committee has received an
extraordinary response from women in every station
and walk of life, eager to devote their efforts towards
maintaining the high Brandeis standard. With the con-
tinued support and encouragement from women
throughout the nation during these pioneering days,
and with the promise of cooperation from more and
more communities eager to be of service, Brandeis is
assured that the National Women's Committee will
become one of the most effective and successful phases
in the development of the University.

ideal

In 1948 when Brandels University opened its doors
with a freshman class of 107 students, the American
Jewish community was justified in taking pride In the
event. The dream that had been nurtured for 80 years
in the hearts of all forward-thinking Jews the country
over had become a reality.

The uniqueness of this, the first and only Jewish-
sponsored, non-sectarian university in the Western
Hemisphere, was underscored by the fact that, unlike
other universities, Brandels could boast no graduates,
could not proudly claim some prominent member of the
community as an alumnus, nor seek the counsel ana
support of a devoted alumni body — for not a single
student will receive a Brandels degree until 1952.

But with the traditional ingenuity that has typified
Jewish idealism for centuries, the plan of the Brandels
Associates was proposed. The Associates are men from
every walk of life, unselfishly devoted to disseminating
the aims and prestige of their adopted university in
every way possible. They have combined their mutual,
eager attachment to the Brandels ideal with the rich,
varied experiences of their business and social back-
grounds, not merely putting themselves at the disposal
of the University but actively applying their energies
to its cause. They see the establishment of the Uni-
versity as one further step

by the Jewish people
toward assuming greater

roles in the expansion of

American education.

The crusading spirit that

has characterized the

Brandels Associates has in

many cases taken prece-
dence over their private

affairs as they bend every

effort toward raising funds

to make the school even

greater than the founders

visualized. With an annual

membership fee of $100,

the alumni have organized

some thirty chapters active

in key cities throughout the

country.

The response of the

alumni thus far to their

adopted Alma Mater Is a

positive indication of their

wholehearted acceptance

of the University as the

symbol of the Jewish ideal

in education.

by
Milton Kahn

coast to coast

Albany

Atlanta

Baltimore

Boston

Canton

Chicago

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Columbus

Detroit

El Paso

Fail River

Hartford

Lawrence

Los Angeles

Louisville

Lowell

Manchester

Memphis

New York

Peoria

Philadelphia

Phoenix

Pittsburgh

Providence

St. Louis

San Antonio

San Francisco

Savannah

Syracuse

Toledo

Trenton

Washington, D.C.

Wilmington

Worcester

"This is where our new
dormitories ore." Presi-
dent Sochar indicates the
site of the newly-construct-
ed residence halls on the
Saarinen Master Plan map
to Milton Kahn, National
Chairman of the Brandeis
University Associates (cen-
ter) ond George Alpert.
President of the Board of
Trustees (right).

Dr. Bernard Mishkin joins

the social science faculty as

Lecturer in Anthropology.

A Guggenheim Fellow and

former consultant to

UNESCO. Dr. Mishkin is

the author of several studies

in anthropology. He is a

graduate of Columbia

University from which he

received his doctorate and

has done field work in New

Guinea, Peru and Mexico.

Carl J. Sindermann is the

recently-appointed Stonehill

Teaching Fellow in Biology.

He is a former teaching

fellow at Harvard University

and last year was

Parasitologist in the

Biological Survey of the

Massachusetts Department

of Conservation. The young

biologist was the winner in

1949 of a scholarship for

study at the Marine

Biological Laboratory In

Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Instruction In Government

will be supplemented this

year with the addition of

Richard G. Axt as a

Teaching Fellow. Mr. Axt

comes to Brandeis from a

post as Research Associate

with the Commission on

Financing Higher Education.

He received his Bachelor

of Arts degree, magna cum

laude, in political science

from Harvard and was

awarded the Faculty

Scholarship at the Harvard

University Graduate School

where he majored in Public

Administration.

In the broadened program
on Near Eastern Civiliza-
tion Mrs. Yemema Seligson
is a recent addition to the
faculty as a Teaching Fellow
in Hebrew. Mrs. Seligson
brings to Brandeis a wide
range of experience In
Hebrew and history which
she has taught for more
than 15 years. She holds a
Master of Arts degree from
New York University, and a
Bachelor of Science degree
from the Columbia Univer-
sity Teachers College.

Dr. Albert Guerard
Professor of Com*
parative Literature

# Dr. Svend Laursen

Associate Professor
of Economics

Dr. Robert A.
Thornton
Lecturer in Physics

the new faculty

literature • physics • music • chemistry

The academic year 1950-51 brings to Brandeis a
distinguished roster of newly-appointed educators who,
together with the other eminent members of the
faculty, will identify their creative and teaching talents
with the University's educational ideals. The new faculty
members who assume their teaching posts this year will
enable the University to maintain the student-faculty
ratio of nine to one.

The study of Comparative Literature will be extended
with the addition of Dr. Albert Guerard, the interna-
tionally noted author, educator and critic. Dr. Guerard
has long been regarded as a leading authority on the
background of French thought, and has also received
wide recognition for his studies of the literary history
of civilization. The author of some twenty-four works
and Professor of General Literature at Stanford Uni-
versity for twenty-one years. Dr. Guerard brings a rich
background of cultural and educational experience to
Brandeis.

Associate Professor Saul G. Cohen is the first incum-
bent of the Rita hi. Aronstam Chair in Chemistry at
Brandeis. A summa cum laude graduate of hiarvard
University, Dr. Cohen is the recipient of the National
Research Fellowship in Chemistry from the National
Research Council, and has served on the faculties of
Harvard and the University of California. In 1941, Dr.
Cohen served as Research Associate on the National
Defense Research Committee, hlis research articles
have appeared in numerous scientific publications.

In the field of economics, the University has a valu-
able addition in Associate Professor Svend Laursen who
formerly held a post at Williams College. Dr. Laursen
has conducted research on international economics with
the Institute of Economics and History in Copenhagen,
and during World War II served with the O.S.S. and
the Department of State as a Senior Economist and
Economics Attache. He is a graduate of the University
of Copenhagen, attended the London School of Eco-
nomics, and holds his doctorate from Harvard.

Dr. Robert A. Thornton, Lecturer in Physics, will
help meet the growing need for educational techniques
in the physical sciences. A former Associate Professor
of Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago, the
noted physicist last summer participated in President

at brandeis in 1950

languages • economics • history ■ sociology

Conant's Seminar on Teaching Science at Harvard
University, and has been invited by the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences to serve as a collabora-
tor in the preparation of a bibliography of general
education. He is former Professor of Physics and Direc-
tor of General Education at the Engineering School of
the University of Puerto Rico, and was Professor and
Chairman of the Department of Physics at Talladega
College in Alabama for fifteen years.

With the addition to the faculty of Irving Fine, the
noted young composer, conductor, and pianist, as
Lecturer in Music and Composer in Residence, the de-
velopment of the music faculty takes another major
stride forward. He comes to Brandeis from an Assistant
Professorship at Harvard University. Since 1946, Mr.
Fine has been a faculty member of the Berkshire Music
Center at Tanglewood, Massachusetts, which is directed
by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. (Dr. Koussevitzky is the
University's Consultant in Music.)

For the past year, the young composer has been in
Paris surveying contemporary trends in French music
on a Fulbright Research Fellowship and has also re-
ceived a Guggenheim Fellowship for further study. This
spring he was elected Composer-Member of the League
of Composers.

Marie Syrkin, author, lecturer, and educator, joins
the Brandeis faculty as Lecturer in Humanities. As
associate editor of Jewish Frontier and the author of
"Your School, Your Children," Miss Syrkin incorporated
much of the first-hand material she gathered on her
many visits to Palestine, the DP camps, and Israel in
her book "Blessed Is the Match." She also contributed
the chapter on the "Cultural Scene: Literary Expression"
in the "American Jew."

The Chief Editor of Schocken Books and former Pro-
fessor of History at the Yeshiva University, Nahum
Glatzer this year assumes his post as Visiting Lecturer
in Jewish History. Dr. Glatzer, who is a member of the
American Academy of Jewish Research and the Amer-
ican Jewish Historical Society, has conducted research
at the British Museum on Rome and Israel, and is the
author of numerous books and articles on Jewish history.
He is the former Registrar of the Teachers Institute of
the Hebrew Theological College.

Marie Syrkin <
Lecturer in
Humanities

Dr. Saul Cohen 9
Associate Professor
of Chemistry

Irving Fine •
Lecturer in Music
and Composer
in Residence

A newly-appointed member
of the Romance Languages
faculty, Mrs. Susan Sharkey
Is Instructor In Spanish and
formerly taught at Brown
University. She Is a
graduate of the New Jersey
College for Women, Rutgers
University, and received
her Master's degree from
the University of Havana.
She was the recipient of
the New Jersey State
Federation of Women's
Clubs grant for the Univer-
sity of Havana and was
awarded the Institute of
International Education
Scholarship for Havana
Summer Session in 1945.

Prospective authors in the
Brandeis student body will
be guided In their creative
efforts by John B. Wight,
Instructor In English
Composition and former
member of the editorial
board of the Harvard
Educational Review. The
author of "U.S. History In
Basic English" (English
Language Research, 1948)
Mr. Wight is a graduate of
Harvard and has his Master
of Education degree from
the Harvard Graduate
School of Education.

Dr. Beatrice BIyth Whiting,
Instructor in Social Psy-
chology, has done research
with John Dollard at Yale
University on the psychology
of women. She holds her
doctorate in anthropology
from Yale and her Bachelor's
degree from Bryn Mawr
College.

Robert L. Edwards, author
of several zoological studies
and former Teaching Fellow
in biology at Harvard, joins
the science faculty as an
Instructor in Zoology. He is
a member of such learned
societies as the American
Society of Mammalogists,
the Cambridge Entomologi-
cal Society and Sigma XI.
Mr. Edwards Is a graduate
of Colgate University and
has his Master's degree from
the Harvard Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences.

adult

The Institute of Adult
Education, currently in
its fourth term, features
as lecturers such es-
teemed authorities as
Thornton Wilder (top,
left), who speaks on
the Playwright in the
American Theater in the
course on the "Survey
of the American Thea-
ter"; Aaron Copland
(top, right) who shares
the platform with Irv-
ing Fine in "The Anat-
omy of Twentieth Cen-
tury Music" course; Dr.
Gregory Zilboorg, (bot-
tom, left) devoting six
lectures to "Psychoan-
alysis — Ito Growth aid
Expansion"; and Max
Lerner (bottom, right),
whose course is called
"Modern Idea Systems.'

education

"Each week, people had been coming from hlarvard
and Wellesley, from Boston and ofher nearby towns,
to attend Brandeis' Institute of Adult Education. For
so new a university, ambitious little Brandeis was
attracting more than its share of attention." So Time
Magazine (November 28, 1949) summed up the im-
pact on the community of the nation's youngest uni-
versity and the auxiliary Institute of Adult Education.

Since Time's visit to the campus a year ago, the Institute has con-
tinued to maintain the high standards established at its inception in
the spring of 1949 when it was designed as a medium for bringing
authoritative and expert discussion of contemporary social and intel-
lectual problems to the community. The Institute met with such enthu-
siastic response that it simultaneously filled and
created the demand for more adult education on a
high level.

The serious level of the Institute is indicated by the
courses offered and the faculty assembled. Last fall '^
five-course curriculum embraced poetry, the cinema,
the theater, American foreign policy, and Jewish
literature. Lecturers were chosen from among the
foremost in their respective fields, and included such poets as E. E.
Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, W. hH. Auden, Karl Shapiro; theater
personalities like Marc Connelly, Jo Mielziner, Arthur Miller, Kermit
Bloomgarden, Margaret Webster, Louis Kronenberger; and other noted
authorities in their fields such as Maurice Samuels, noted exponent
of Jewish values, and Ludwig Lewlsohn.

Last spring's program featured courses In con-
^■^M^ temporary music, modern literature, and problems of

^^H American civilization. Some of the acknowledged

^^^Pr__-pf^ authorities in their respective fields included Aaron
^Bl,^ _ ', Copland, Roy tHarris, Lukas Foss, William Schuman,
^B ^^'^^H '^°''C Blltzsteln, James T. Farrell, Dylan Thomas, Oscar
^^ ^ni^l Williams, and Max Lerner.

This fall marks the Institute's fourth term comprised
of seven courses. One of the featured lecture series is a survey on the
American theater with Harold Clurman, the noted director, and
Thornton Wilder, world-famous playwright, heading the list of partici-
pants. Max Lerner is conducting a course dealing with "Modern Idea
Systems ", and Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, the eminent psychoanalyst. Is
presenting a course on 'Psychoanalysis: Its Growth and Expansion."
The young composer-conductor Irving Fine, together
with Aaron Copland, will analyze Twentieth Century
music; and three courses will be offered by members
of the faculty on poetry, the State of Israel, and on
hiassidlsm.

The Adult Education program, in broadening its
curriculum and increasing its subscriptions, has already
enhanced the Intellectual life of the community. Now
firmly established as an Important phase of cultural activities in the
area, the Institute looks forward to the continuance of its contribution
in fulfilling the intellectual demands of an adult population.

the writing faculty

Ludwig Lewisohn

completed his third book on the Brandeis campus. "The
American Jew, Character and Destiny" to be published
by Farrar, Strauss on November 2, will be featured by
the Jewish Book Council in connection with Jewish
Book month which opens November 3. Last spring Dr.
Lewisohn published "The Magic Word, Studies in the
Nature of Poetry", consisting of three extensive essays
on hlomer, Shakespeare and Goethe.

Frank Manuel

has contributed a volume to the Cornell University
Press Series on the "Development of Western Civiliza-
tion, Narrative Essays on the hHistory of Our Tradition
from the Greek City-States to the Present." Dr.
Manuel's volume, dealing with the Eighteenth Century,
is entitled "The Age of Reason", and will be forth-
coming in three months. Dr. Manuel is Associate Pro-
fessor of Modern hHistory.

Milton Hindus

is the author of "The Crippled Giant", published by
Boarshead Books. The book is the journal which the
author kept of his visit to Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
French novelist in Denmark who had written tracts
prior to and early in the war, and who had been accused
by the Resistance Movement of collaborating with the
Nazis. Mr. Hindus is Assistant Professor of hlumanitles.

Shlomo Marenof

presents in biographical form sketches of outstanding
Jewish personalities in the awakening of Jewish life
during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in his
book "A People and Its Leaders." The book is written
in Hebrew and is being published by the Hebrew Pub-
lishing Company of New York. Dr. Marenof, who is
Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Near Eastern Civili-
zation, is planning a second volume.

Claude Vigee

was praised by the 1949 Nobel Prize winner Andre
Gide for his volume of poems "La Lutte Avec L'Ange"
(The Battle With the Angel), published by Libraire Les
Lettres, Paris. Gide termed the verse as "ranking
among the best I have read in a long time." Dr. Vigee
is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and
Literature. In December his translation of 60 of Rilke's
poems will be published in connection with the 75th
anniversary of Rilke's birth.

brandeis plays host

On October 28 the Annual
Fall Conference of the New
England Section of the Col-
lege English Association will
assemble on the campus. Dr.
Osborne Earle, Brandeis As-
sociate Professor of English,
and Chairman of the Program
Committee, has announced
that Thornton Wilder, Bernard
DeVoto, and the Rev. Carol
Bernhardt, S.J., of Weston
College and Boston Col-
lege Graduate School, will be
among the principal partici-
pants.

In commemoration of the
three hundredth anniversary
of the death of Rene Des-
cartes the University is spon-
soring an institute during the
first two days of November
at which Professor Alexandre
Koyre of the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, will
be the guest of honor and
featured lecturer. A sympo-
sium, presented on the first
day of the commemorative
program, will include Profes-
sors I. Bernard Cohen and
Philippe Le Corbeiller of Har-
vard University, and Professor
Albert Guerard of Brandeis.
The program was arranged by
Dr. Aron Gurwitsch. Assistant
Professor of Mathematics at
Brandeis, who will chair the
event.

President Gregg M. Sinclair
of the University of Hawaii
will visit the campus in the
course of his annual trip to
the United States Mainland.
Another University President
from abroad who was a recent
guest is Dr. J. Max Bond of
the College of Liberia, Mon-
rovia, who conferred with Dr.
Sachar on Brandeis educa-
tional policies.

music . . .

scored for brandeis

by Adolph Ullman

The Friends of the School of Music is one of fhe
newest of Brandeis University's auxiliary groupings and,
understandably, its most ambitious. There is no alterna-
tive, however, if the School of Music Is to emerge in
a form befitting the lofty ideals motivating the Uni-
versity. As Dr. Serge Koussevitzky said in a recent
planning conference, "Brandeis must create the very
finest of musical education, else it is better that we do
not start."

The Friends have a four-fold program of action: the
establishment of an auxiliary University organization of
music lovers to further the knowledge and enjoyment of
the art; the support of a faculty in Music in the under-
graduate curriculum; the development of musical
activities on the campus; and cooperation with the
Institute of Adult Education in offering music courses
to enrich the enjoyment of lay persons.

The inspiring leadership of Dr. Koussevitzky as Con-
sultant for The School of Music and the cooperation of
Leonard Bernstein, Professor Alfred Einstein and Aaron
Copland as members of the University's Advisory Com-
mittee on Educational Policies in Music indicate the
goals which are being set. hlaving completed our
first year with a large and active membership in Boston,
we are now preparing to create units in other com-
munities.

Dr. Erwin Bodky, the pioneer faculty member in
Music, has this year been joined by Irving Fine, brilliant

young composer and music educator. Last year's cata-
logue listed one full course in Music; the 1950-51
catalogue offers three full courses and three half-courses.
This carefully planned program of expansion will be
continued in the next few years.

Last year the Friends presented three concerts for
the campus student family, and plans this year call
for semi-monthly concerts In Nathan Seifer Hall. The
ambitiously planned and brilliantly executed Bach
Festival, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the
death of the master, presented last year by mem-
bers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of Dr. Bodky, received widespread acclaim
from both audience and critics.

In cooperation with the Institute of Adult Education,
The Friends offered a survey course last spring in con-
temporary music in which Roy hHarris, William Schuman,
Rene Leibowitz, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Marc
Biitzsteln lectured, under the chairmanship of Dr.
Bodky. This fall the cooperative arrangement continues
with a course in "The Anatomy of Twentieth Century
Music" offered jointly by Professor Fine and Aaron
Copland.

The Friends of The School of Music view these activi-
ties as a prelude to the establishment at Brandeis of a
significant repository of musical knowledge, a dwelling
place for creative musicians, a fertile training ground
for students and a center for the dispersal of musical
enjoyment throughout the nation.

Doniels Printing Company, Boston

a message from
george alpert,

president of the board of trustees

On behalf of the Board of Trustees of Brandels University I am delighted to
welcome the appearance of this first issue of the Brandeis Review.

Since its birth a few years ago, our University has celebrated many "firsts".
To begin with, Brandeis is the first representative of the Jewish community in
America's family of nonsectarian universities founded by denominational zeal.
Once the idea of a group contribution by American Jewry to nonsectarian higher
education in this country was given tangible form through the acquisition of the
beautiful Brandeis campus, the Founders were faced with the task of selecting
the University's first President. Then came the appointment of the first Professor,
the admission of the first Students, the formation of the first Freshman Olass.

Now the Brandeis family enters its third academic year. We are still elated at the
remarkable achievements of the past, but it is the present and future of this still
fledgling institution which command our energies and challenge our initiative.
There is much in the way of tradition yet to be established; we can anticipate
the celebration of many, many more premieres.

I am confident that the pages of future issues of the Brandeis Review will continue
to attest the determined effort asserted by Founders, Trustees, Faculty and friends
of Brandeis to assure that at each new stage of its career the University will
maintain that high standard of quality which is its hallmark.

Brandeis
University

President of the University
DR. ABRAM L. SACHAR

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Fellows
HON. HERBERT H. LEHMAN

Chairman of the Board of Fellows
FRANK L. WEIL

The Board of Trustees

GEORGE ALPERT, President
JAMES J. AXELROD
JOSEPH F. FORD
MEYER JAFFE
DUDLEY F. KIMBALL
PAUL KLAPPER
ADELE ROSENWALD LEVY
ISADOR LUBIN
DAVID K. MILES
JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER
NORMAN S. RABB
ISRAEL ROGOSIN
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
JACOB SHAPIRO
MORRIS SHAPIRO

President of the National Women's Committee
EDITH G. MICHAELS

National Chairman of the Brandeis Associates
MILTON KAHN

Chairman of the Friends of The School of Music
ADOLPH ULLMAN

Chairman of the Brandeis University Athletic Association
JOSEPH LINSEY

''mr.fS ^^

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JUSTICE LOUIS DEMBITZ BRANDEIS^
November 13, 1856 — October 5, 1941

FFTriAI. PUBLICATIDN DF BHAOEIS UNIVEHSITY,

NEWS ISSUE

SENATOR LEHMAN AND FRANK WEIL HEAD

UNIVERSITY'S NEW BOARD OF FELLOWS

1000 BOSTON ASSOCIATES HEAR

LERNER AT SECOND ANNUAL DINNER

PICTURED Jl head uble ivilh guesi
speaker Max Leriier. right, is Jacob
Shapiro, member of the Board of
Trustees Building Committee and a
leading proponent of the Univers-
ity's athletic development. One of
20 Associates groups throughout the
nation, the Greater Boston Chapter
numbers 1.000 members.

Before the more than 1,000 persons who
attended the Second Annual Membership
Dinner of the Greater Boston Brandeis
Associates Chapter, Dr. Max Lerner, Bran-
deis Professor of American Civilization,
delivered the featured address of the eve-
ning on "The Dimensions of a Liberal
Education." The meeting was held in the
Main Ballroom of the Statler Hotel on
December 5.

The theme for the dinner meeting was
a review and interpretation of the achieve-
ments and future plans of Brandeis Uni-
versity in terms of modern trends in edu-
cational philosophy. Sharing the speaker's
platform with Dr. Lerner were Milton
Kahn, National Chairman of the Brandeis
University Associates; President Sachar;
and President of the Board George Alpert.
Presiding over the meeting was Harold
Sherman Goldberg, Chairman of the Din-
ner Committee.

Working with a committee of 128 com-
munity leaders, Mr. Goldberg arranged a
musical program presented by Zvi Zeitlen,
Israeli concert artist; Erwin Bodky, Bran-
deis Assistant Professor of Music; and
Irving Fine, Composer in Residence.

The Chapter's officers include President
Hyman Cohen, Vice Presidents Goldberg,
Sidney Kaye, George Shapiro, and Benja-
min Ulin, Secretary Harold Widett and
Treasurer Max Chernis.

Cover: Bu.st by Eleanor Piatt In the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston.

SYDEMAN FUNDS UNDERWRITE
NEW SCIENCE HALL ANNEX

The executors of the estate of the late
William H. Sydeman, Dr. Solomon Rubin
of Boston and Arnold Lichtig, New York
attorney, have directed $46,800 to the
University to underwrite the construction
of the Science Hall Annex, now nearing
completion. The two-story structure which
adjoins Science Hall will be named for
the New York merchant and philanthropist
who died June 9, 1948 at the age of 61.

Dr. Rubin, who is the late Mr. Syde-
man's brother-in-law, was one of the first
members of the Brandeis University Asso-
ciates and was instrumental in directing
the major portion of the charitable funds
from the estate to Brandeis. He is Assist-
ant Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts Medi-
cal School and one of the Supervising
School Physicians for the Boston Public
Schools. His co-executor, Mr. Lichtig, was
Mr. Sydeman's attorney.

Sydeman Hall will house classrooms,
reading rooms, and faculty offices in addi-
tion to the Breitman Family Physics Lab-
oratory, the Falk Nuclear Physics Labora-
tory and other scientific facilities.

Mr. Sydeman, who was a graduate of
the Harvard Class of 1907, left his native
Boston in 1918 and went to New York
where he founded a successful chain store
business. That he gave generously of his
time and money to worthy causes is at-
tested in his will.

The appointment
of Hon. Herbert
Lehman, United
States Senator from
New York, as Hon-
orary Chairman, and
of prominent New
York attorney Frank

L. Weil as Chair- Senator Lehman

man of the newly-formed Brandeis Uni-
versity Board of Fellows has been an-
nounced by George Alpert.

The Board of Fellows at Brandeis will
act as an advisory group to the Board of
Trustees and base its activity on a continu-
ing evaluation of all phases of the Uni-
versity's operation.

Mr. Lehman, who was three times Gov-
ernor and twice named Senator by the
New York electorate, is Honorary Per-
manent Chairman and former Director
General of U.N.R.R.A., and Vice Chair-
man of the American Jewish Committee.
He is also Vice Pres-
ident of the Wel-
fare Council of
Greater New York
and a Trustee of the
Institute for Ad-
vanced Study and of
the National Con-
ference of Christians
and Jews.

Mr. Weil served as a member of the
United States National Commission to
UNESCO and is Chairman of the Presi-
dent's Committee on Religious and Moral
Welfare in the Armed Forces. He is Co-
founder and Director of the United Serv-
ice Organizations and former President of
the National Jewish Welfare Board. He
is Chairman of the National Executive
Committee of the National Social Wel-
fare Assembly and Vice Chairman of the
Board of Governors of Hebrew Union
College. He was awarded the Medal for
Merit by President Truman in 1946.

Frank

BRANDEIS IN "PEOPLE TODAY"

People Today, the new pocket news
magazine put out by the publishers of
Neusweeik devoted two pafi^s to Bran-
deis football and Director of Athletics
Benny Friedman recently.

The story praised Benny for the suc-
cess of his athletic program and praised
the spirit of the Brandeis Freshman
Football Team in its successful first
season.

Sample: "Twelve months ago Bran-
deis didn't have a bowl to sing in or
a school song. Of the 2 SO freshmen
students (40 percent women) he didn't
expect more than 30 players on the
first practice call; 50 turned up."

VOL. I, NO. 5

DECEMBER 20, 1950

Official Publication of Brandeis University published /? times during the year (once in the months of September, October. Sovember.

/March, June, July and August; twice in the months of December, February, and May) at Brandeis University, 41 y South Street,

Wallham 54, Mass. Entered as second class mailer at the Post Office at Boston. Mass.

NEWS ISSVE

Lena Seillen
has been offered

LENA SEITLEN MEMORIAL
ESTABLISHED IN LIBRARY

A fund to provide for the Lena Seitlen
Memorial Collection as the first group of
hooks on art in the Brandeis Library has
luL-n established by the family of the late
Miss Seitlen who turned over the balance
oi her estate for that purpose to the Uni-
versity.

Accepting the
fund in behalf of
Brandeis, President
Sachar declared in
a letter to Mrs. Leon
S. Medalia of Bos-
ton, sister of the
late Miss Seitlen:
"I am privileged to
accept this gift which
for the establishment
of the Lena Seitlen Memorial Collection,
which will be placed in a special section
of our Librar)'. I need not add what a
joy it is to have this area of the Library
ot Brandeis inaugurated in such a creative
way, and I feel sure that the establishment
of this collection will serve as a lasting
creative memorial to your dear sister."

Miss Seitlen taught for 30 years in the
Boston schools and held her last teaching
post at the Solomon Lewenberg School
before her death in 19-48. She was gradu-
ated from Salem Normal School and also
studied at Harvard, Columbia and Cornell
and taught in the Religious School at
Temple Israel under the late Rabbi Levi.
As an amateur artist of note, Miss
Seitlen exhibited her work at Jordan
Marsh's in 1939 and 1940 and at the
Independent Artists' Show at Paine's for
two successive years, 19-17 and 1948. In
addition to her teaching and artistic activi-
ties. Miss Seitlen together with two other
teachers founded Camp Greggmere for
girls, which continued successfully for
nearly two decades.

In tribute to Miss Seitlen, Frank J.
Herlihy, Principal and Mary A. Brennan,
Vice Principal ot the Solomon Lewenberg
School have written: "Thirty years of un-
selfish devotion to the interests of hundreds
of energetic young Americans might be
sufficient to sap the strength and quench
the enthusiasm and idealism of the aver-
age soul. But . . . neither time nor famil-
iarity dimmed her idealism and enthusiasm
for her profession . . . Her sympathy and
love for her fellow man were not subjects
which she taught, but qualities that per-
meated every word and action, and which
her pupils caught' from her example.
Therefore, we do not grieve that her in-
fluence for good has been lost. Rather, we
are pleased by the realization that she has
earned a kind of immortality, for the
hundreds of students whom she inspired
in turn pass on this inspiration to others,
projecting her influence far into the fu-
ture . . ."

TWIN MEETINGS COMMEMORATE

JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS

Scores of friends of the University
gathered at meetings in New York and
Philadelphia on November 13 to com-
memorate the 94th aniversary of the birth
of Louis D. Brandeis, the late Justice of
the Supreme Court whose name the Uni-
versity bears.

Former United States Assistant Attorney
General Thurman Arnold was the princi-
pal speaker before more than 700 who met
m the Plaza Hotel in New York. Mr.
Arnold hailed the late Justice as one of the
most significant social and educational
thinkers of our time and termed the philos-
ophy of Louis Brandeis still vital in these
days.

A host of University officials attended
the commemorative meeting which was
jointly sponsored by the New York Chap-
ters of the Brandeis Associates and the
Greater New York Chapters of the Nation-
al Women's Committee. Judge Joseph M.
Proskauer, Honorary President of the Am-
erican Jewish Committee and a Trustee
of the University served as Chairman for
the meeting. Among those present was
James M. Landis, former Dean of the
Harvard Law School, who began his legal
career as a law clerk to Justice Brandeis.

"Brandeis University — The Great
Trust" was the theme of addresses made
by Dr. Sachar who spoke on "The Steward-
s!iip" ; Board President George Alpert who
discussed "The "Vision"; Milton Kahn,
National President of the Brandeis Asso-
ciates who talked on "The Responsibility";
Mrs. Harry L. Michaels, National Presi-
dent of the Women's Committee, who
spoke on "The Challenge"; and Miss
Ruth Abrams, an undergraduate, who ad-
dressed the group on "The Future."

CHARTER PRESENTATION to the Phila-
delphia Chapter of the National W'umeii'i
Committee took place at the November 13
luncheon which was co-sponsored by the
Brandeis Lawyers Society oj Philadelphia. Judge
l(/itph Sloane. President of the Society, chaired
the meeting. Above, left, Mrs. Harry L. Alichaels.
National President of the Women's Committee
presents the charter to Mrs. Max L. Margolis.
President pro tern of the newly-formed Women's
Committee Chapter.

DR. WAKSMAN HONORED

Rhode Island State College in King-
ston, R. I., has conferred an honorary
Doctor of Science degree on Dr. Sel-
man A. Waksman, discoverer of strep-
tomycin, and Consultant to the School
of Science at Brandeis.

Dr. Waksman, who is the director of
the Institute of Microbiology at Rut-
gers University, was cited as the "fore-
most authority on the microbiology of
the soil. " Dr. Waksman visits Brandeis
on December 23 to confer on Brandeis
University's senior year curricular de-
velopments in science.

THRFF LEGAL
LIGHTS met on

November 13 in
New York at the
meeting commemo-
rating the 94th an-
niversary of the
birthday of justice
Louis Dembitz
Brandeis. Left to
right are George
Alpert, President of
the Brandeis Board
of Trustees, Thur-
man Arnold, form-
er United Stales
Assistant Attorney
General, who wai
principal speaker,
and Judge Joseph
M. Proskauer, Uni-
versity Trustee and
Chairman of the
meeting.

NEWS ISSUE

MIAMI LEADERS PLEDGE SUPPORT

AT FIRST BRANDEIS MEETING

Gifts totalling more than $50,000 were
contributed in a stirring show of support
for Brandeis at a dinner meeting held on
November 8 at the Delano Hotel under
the co-chairmanship of Miami Mayor
Harold Turk, Carl Weinkle and Samuel
N. Friedland. President Sachar was guest
of honor and main speaker at the event
which was attended by more than 200
members of the Greater Miami Committee
for Brandeis University.

Among the prominent Miamians who
served on the dinner committee were
Leonard L. Abess, Jack Ablin, Sidney D.
Ansin, Sam Blank, Shepard Broad, Jack
Dubinsky, Abraham Goodman, Dr. Mor-
ris Goodman, Louis Heiman, Ben Kane,
J. Gerald Lewis, Marcie Liberman, Joseph
M. Lipton, Max Orovitz, Sam A. Rivkind,
Sam Prosterman, Leo Robinson, Daniel B.
Ruskin, Monte Selig, Jacob Sher, Harry
Simonhoiif, William D. Singer, Harry Sir-
kin, and Mitchell Wolfson.

Miami activity on behalf of Brandeis
was heightened two days later by the or-
ganizational meeting of the Miami Wom-
en's Committee Chapter of which Mrs.
Harold Turk is temporary chairman.

PRINCIPAL PERSONALITIES who tu<,k p.trt
in the Mnimi dinner Me, left tu right, (seated)
President Abram L. Siichjr and Carl Weinkle
and (standing) Mayor Harold Turk of Miami
Beach and Samuel N. Friedland. Messrs. Fried-
land and Weinkle and Mayor Turk, co-chair-
men of the Greater Miami sponsoring commit-
tee, are prominent in Jeirish and general com-
munity activities in South Florida.

NUCLEAR PHYSICS LAB ESTABLISHED
BY FITCHBURG INDUSTRIALIST

Morris Falk

Responding to the
current need for
basic training in at-
omic energy and re-
search, Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Falk of
Fitchburg, Mass.,
have contributed
$15,000 to Brandeis

for the establishment of the Morris Falk
Nuclear Physics Laboratory. The newly-
endowed laboratory is being built in Syde-
man Hall.

Mr. Falk, who is the owner of the In-
dependent Lock Company, is a noted in-
dustrialist and philanthrojsist. He has for
many years been strongly interested in the
development of scientific research and in
furthering the education of young men
in science and engineering. Several years
ago he established a sizeable scholarship
to be awarded annually to an outstanding
student of the Fitchburg High School.
His contribution to Brandeis is another
extension of his interest in scientific study
and research.

The Falk Nuclear Physics Laboratory at
Brandeis will be equipped with the most
up-to-date facilities for study in this area
of science, and will form an integral part
of the broadened science curriculum.

LENDING A HAND on the Abraham
Marcus Athletic Field conslruction are
Joseph Linsey (left) Chairman of the
Brandeis Athletic Association and Harold
Sherman Goldberg, Membership Chair-
man of the Greater Boston Associates
Chapter. The field will be readied for
next year's sports program.

UNIVERSITY MOURNS

WILLIAM LEIBOWITZ

On Thursday, Oc-
tober 19 William
Leibowitz, Brandeis
University's first lib-
rarian died of a
heart ailment in
Waltham Hospital
at the age of 47.
Well known to the

Brandeis family and recognized as a lead-
ing library administrator, his loss was
keenly felt on the campus.

The University suspended classes in his
memory and services were held in Nathan
Seifer Hall where President Sachar de-
livered the eulogy and Rabbi Irving Man-
dell of Temple Shalom, Newton, officiated.

Mr. Leibowitz was a native of New
York City. He came to Brandeis in 1948
when the University first began to func-
tion and immediately set about laying the
plans for the future growth of the Bran-
deis Library. His understanding of admini-
strative problems allowed him to work ef-
fectively with the National Women's Com-
mittee for the expansion of the library
which contained 2,000 volumes two years
ago and which contains more than 40,000
volumes today.

Officials paid tribute to Mr. Leibow-
itz in these words; "William Leibowitz
brought to his tasks not only the skills of
a fine librarian, but the zeal of a pioneer.
Always conscious that he was laying the
foundations for a great Library his under-
standing elicited from him a devotion
which made him one of the most valued '
members of the University's stafi^. He will
be sorely missed."

Mr. Leibowitz is survived by his widow,
the former Belle Levin of Barberton,
Ohio, and a three-year-old daughter, Carol
Ann. Burial was in New York.

MANCHESTER ASSOCIATES

HEADED BY SILVER

Manchester, N.H.,
leaders gathered for
their first meeting
on behalf of Bran-
deis on November
20 at the home of
Morris Silver, spon-
sor of the meeting
and, upon hearing
the address of George Alpert, President
of the Board of Trustes, formed a Bran-
deis University Associates Chapter.

Mr. Silver, who chaired the meeting,
became chairman of the new Associates
Chapter. Samuel Green and Samuel Ca-
mann are Secretary and Treasurer respec-
tively. Long identified with many com-
munity interests, Mr. Silver is President
of Silver Brothers Company, New Hamp-
shire's largest food distributors, and of
Cott Beverages.

Morris Silver

NEWS ISSUE

NOTES ON

cJne vl/onien's (committee

On November 3 a group of 38 leading
women of Greater Miami gathered to
consider the formation of a Chapter —
one week later 200 women met at the
Delano Hotel where Dr. Sachar ad-
dressed the meeting and announced
their temporary officers. Thirty of those
present became Charter Life Members
and the rest of the group enrolled as
Annual members. Greater Miami offi-
cers pro tem include Mrs. Harold Turk,
Chairman; Mrs. Aaron Farr, Co-chair-
man; Mrs. Louis Heiman, Secretary;
and Mrs. Louis Sherman and Mrs. Ben
Zion Ginzberg, Co-treasurers.

HENRY FEIL LEAGUE CONTRIBUTION

SUPPORTS UNIVERSITY INFIRMARY

In Brockton, Mass., a new chapter is be-
ing organized with what is reported as
"fantastic success." Brockton women held
a preliminary tea on November 29 when
their membership enrollment up to that
date was announced as 130 Annual and
10 Life members. Mrs. Kenneth Dorn,
President of the recently-formed chapter,
is the daughter of the late Abraham
Shapiro, one of the original members of
the Brandeis Board of Trustees.

Detroit women held a membership drive
luncheon on October 16 when 55 new mem-
bers enrolled. The Chapter's scroll was
presented to Mrs. Harry L. Michaels, Na-
tional President and guest speaker before
the 250 women attending. By December 31,
Detroit Chapter President Mrs. Oscar
Zemon has announced, the group hopes to
have 600 charter members — the Chapter
now numbers 517.

Officers have been announced for the
newly-formed Philadelphia Chapter which
held its organizational meeting on Septem-
ber 19 and was addressed by George Al-
pert, President of the Board of Trustees.
Mrs. Max L. Margolis is President; Mrs.
Benjamin Wasserbly, Vice President; Mrs.
Jack M. Korn, Secretary; Mrs. Norman
S. Gorson, Treasurer; and Mrs. Sidney
C. Orlofsky, Publicity. Their second meet-
ing was held on December 6.

Indianapolis officers pro tem are Mrs.
Jack A. Goodman, Chairman; Mrs. Alex-
ander S. Wolf, Co-chairman; Mrs. Leonard
A. Solomon, Secretary; and Mrs. Bess
Dobrowitz, Treasurer. The addition of this
new chapter brings the total number of
Women's Committee Chapters to 54.

The 200 Lynn, Mass., Life members
heard faculty member Dr. Robert A.
Thornton, Brandeis Lecturer in Physics,
speak on the "Teaching of the Physical
Sciences" at a tea on November 14. The
meeting was one of a series in the Chap-
ter's fall membership campaign. President
of the Chapter is Mrs. Ellis Michelson.

Atlanta Charter Life Members sponsored
a meeting on November 7 at which Presi-
dent Sachar addressed the group. Mrs.
Sidney Q. Janus is President of the southern
chapter which was one of the first to form.
The Atlanta Charter Life membership has
increased from 28 to more than 70.

AT DEDICATION of
the Uiiivenity Health
Office, underwritten by
the Henry Fell Philan-
thropic League are, left
to right, Mrs. Harry
Feil, mother of 2nd Lt.
Feil in ivhoie memory
the League was estab-
lished, and Mrs. Sol
Grossman, of New York
City, President of the
League.

PIANO RECITAL OPENS
N£IF CONCERT SERIES

The first of a series of six concerts to
be presented this season by the Friends of
the School of Music took place on Decem-
ber 3 with a piano recital by pianist
Herman Godess in Nathan Seifer Hall.

Mr. Godess presented selections by
Schumann, Prokofieff, Brahms, Scriabin,
and Chopin. Mr. Godess' Brandeis recital
was one of the first landmarks in his
American career.

Other programs planned by the Friends
of the School of Music for the coming
season include a song recital by soprano
Norma Farber; Music for two pianos by
Irving Fine and Erwin Bodky; Irving Fine's
sonatas for violin and piano performed
by Zvi Zeitlen and Irving Fine; a song
recital by Paul Matthen, bass-baritone;
and a trio concert by Alfred Krips, violin;
Samuel Mayes, cello; and Erwin Bodky,

The University's new health office, fully
equipped and modern in every way has
been underwritten with a gift of $5000
by the Henry Feil Philanthropic League
of New York in memory of 2nd Lt. Henry
Feil who was killed in action August 25,
1944 with the American infantry in
France. Mrs. Sol Grossman, President of
the League, was instrumental in directing
the gift to the University where her
daughter Leila, Class of '53, is enrolled.

Lt. Feil, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Feil of New York, was 25 years old when
he died. He was a graduate of New York
University with the class of 1940 and
played varsity football for N.Y.U. from
1937 to 1939. The Henry Feil League
was formed in May, 1948, by 13 women
who have perpetuated Lt. Feil's name in
deeds of assistance for the Jewish people.

piano. The dates of these concerts are to
be announced.

BOOKS FOR BRAN-
DEIS from French
teacher Elizabeth M.
Craighead, recently re-
tired from the Wor-
cester, Mass., School
System, were donated
through the W^orcester
Chapter of the Wom-
en's Committee. Miss
Craighead, (left) pre-
sents two of her collec-
tion of rare technical
French Books to Mrs.
Harry Ports s, (right)
Chairman of the Book
Fund Committee as
Worcester Chapter
President Mrs. Joseph
Goldberg looks on.
The Worcester Chapter
held their latest meet-
ing on November 9.

NEWS ISSUE

BRANDEIS BOWS TO FORT DEVENS
IN FIRST FRESHMAN BASKETBALL GAME

SPEEDY BRANDEIS FORWARD Duk Jones
'54, Scranloii, Pa., goes up in the air to sink
a basket and put his team in the leaJ. Jones,
who played right halfback in the University's
freshman football squad, changed into basket-
ball togs the day after the last grid game.

The Brandeis University freshman
basketball team lost its first game of the
season to the highly-touted Fort Devens
squad, 70-59, on December 2. The Bran-
deis team battled its way down the stretch
but lost the game in the last few minutes
of play.

It was a moral victory for the Brandeis
hoopsters who were playing the first
basketball game in the University's history
against a strong Fort Devens team com-
prised of men who had played varsity and
professional basketball.

A cheering section of Brandeis students
made the trip to Fort Devens in Ayer,
Mass., to support their team which con-
tinually swapped leads with the Army
men throughout the game and finally
yielded to the superior opponent.

CRIMSON REVIEWS BRANDEIS

The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Uni-
versity's undergraduate daily, sent a
battery of journalists to the campus
last month for a story on Brandeis.

The resulting full page spread in the
Crimson depicted Brandeis to Harvard
men in terms that could make Harvard
men very happy indeed.

Sample: "Often in the past, the Uni-
versity has helped a new college . . .
get its start. It did so for the first
time in 1701 in New Haven and the
result was Yale. It did so two years
ago in Waltham and the result was
Brandeis . . ."

FRESHiVIAN BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE

December 2 Fort Devens

December 9 St. Anselms

December 12 Boston College

December 15 City College of N.^'.

December 16 Hofstra

December 20 Syracuse University

January 6, '51 West Point

January 10 Fort Devens

January 13 Harvard

February 8 Univ. of Massachusetts

February 10 Springfield College

February 17 Bates

February 21 Boston University

February 24 M.I.T.

March 3 Dartmouth

To be annorniced - -. .Holy Cross

PAUL KLAPPER HONORED
BY UNIV. OF CHICAGO

An award for
teaching excellence,
the first of its kind,
has been given Dr.
Paul Klapper, Bran-
deis Trustee and
President Emeritus
of Queens College,
by the University of
Chicago.

Dr. Klapper has been named to the
William Rainey Harper professorship for
his study of University of Chicago under-
graduate teaching methods and his direc-
tion of a movie based on the subject.

The newly established professorship,
named for Chicago's first president, is
given persons "who have achieved dis-
tinction in teaching and in reflection upon
the problems of undergraduate education."

Paul Klapper

W'ERMAN SUCCEEDS ULLMAN

AS FRIENDS OF MUSIC HEAD

Mark Werman,
noted insurance
man, has been el-
ected to succeed
Adolph Ullman as
Chairman of The
Friends of The
School of Music, it
was announced by
President Sachar. Mr.
Honorary Chairman.

Mr. Werman was
University and the
servatory of Music.

Mark Werman

Ullman will serve as

educated at Harvard
New England Con-
He has long been

associated with musical activities and is
a member of The Friends of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Ullman, prominent Boston busi-
nessman, founded the Friends of The
School of Music and served as Chairman
since the group's inception more than a
year ago. He has been active in music
circles in Greater Boston for many years.

The Friends of the School of Music is
an organization of music lovers who work
with Brandeis University officials for the
establishment at Brandeis of a School of
Music and who have sponsored numerous
musical events at the University.

PRESENTATION OF TROPHIES for the best hackfield and line performances of the
season highlighted the close of the 19^0 football program. Coach Benny Friedman, left,
made the presentations at the first athletic banquet to Ed Manganiello '34 for his superb
line play and to quarterback Dick Cunningham '54 for his outstanding job in the hackfield.
ffneph Linsey, right. Chairman of the Brandeis Athletic Association, was featured speaker.

NEWS ISSUE

:HICAG0 WOMEN'S GROUPS
ZONTRIBUTE TO LIBRARY

Two Chicago women's organizations
lave provided funds for the expansion of
he University Library. Members of the
Vlusarts Club, a group of women devoted
o furthering the arts, have made available
t gift to form the basis of a Drama Library
it Brandeis. The Musarts Club will supplc-
nent this initial gift with additional con-
ributions to the Drama Library which
he group has created. Mrs. Louis M.
Jrown is Philanthropic Chairman of the
)rgani2ation.

The Greater Chicago Alurnnae Chapter
)f Alpha Epsilon Phi, National Collegiate
Jorority has adopted for its project aid
:or the growth of the psychology library
It Brandeis. The project is under the
eadership of Mrs. Maurice Mandel,
Zhairm.an of the Chicago Chapter of the
SJational Women's Committee.

SAUL FECHTOR CREATES
NEW SCHOLARSHIP

Saul Fechtor, prominent community
eader and President of the Kingston
Clothing Company of Boston, has created
[he Saul and Sarah Fechtor Scholarship
Fund at Brandeis, it has been announced
5y Morris Shapiro, member of the Bran-
deis Board of Trustees and Chairman of
:he Board Scholarship Committee.

At a recent testimonial dinner honoring
lis 50th birthday, Mr. Fechtor was pre-
sented with a check in recognition of his
Dutstanding communal activities. A mem-
ber of the Brandeis University Associates
md a firm supporter of education, Mr.
Fechtor increased the amount of the check
ind turned it over to Brandeis.

Mr. Fechtor attended both Northeastern
ind Boston Universities but because of
financial circumstances was unable to pur-
sue his studies to graduation. Aware of
the financial obstacles to a college educa-
tion, he has created the Fechtor Scholar-
ship Fund to aid deserving students.

Long active in the Greater Boston com-
munity, Mr. Fechtor is a Trustee of the
Combined Jewish Appeal, the Associated
Jewish Philanthropies and the Beth Israel
Hospital.

$163,000 PLEDGED TO UNIVERSITY

AT FIRST CHICAGO BRANDEIS MEETING

NEW ASSOCIATES CHAPTER
FORMED BY CLEVELAND MEN

Cleveland community leaders assembled
on November 21 to launch the Cleveland
Chapter of the Brandeis University Asso-
ciates at a dinner meeting held at the Oak-
wood Club. The Cleveland Chapter joins
with its brother groups across the country
who support the University as "foster"
alumni.

Highlighting the dinner meeting were
addresses by President Sachar and Benny
Friedman, Athletic Director. Coach Fried-
man this fall fielded a freshman football
squad which scored four victories and
suffered two defeats in the University's
first intercollegiate competition.

Co-chairmen of the meeting were Al-
fred A. Benesch, Eugene Freedheim, Max
Freedman, Eugene H. Goodman, Samuel
Horwitz, Nathan Loeser, A. M. Luntz
and Leonard Ratner. They were assisted
by more than 60 men who served on the
committee.

BRIDGEPORT MEN HOLD

BRANDEIS MEETING

One hundred leading citizens of Bridge-
port, Conn., were guests of Philip Carlson
at the first dinner meeting held in that
community on behalf of Brandeis Univer-
sity on November 21. Board President
George Alpert, guest speaker at the meet-
ing, told the group that "although indivi-
dual Jews have made generous gifts to
existing centers of learning, Brandeis Uni-
versity is the first non-sectarian university
which is the corporate responsibility of the
Jewish community. "

Assisting Mr. Carlson on the meeting
committee were Dr. Max Alpert, Walter
Breslav, William Carlson, Sam Engelman,
Sam Friedman, Harry A. Goldstein, Robert
Hirsch, Jacob Kunin, Sam Kunin, Law-
rence Lesser, Robert Lesser, Harry Leven-
thal, Sigmund Miller, Gustave Rosen,
Philip Sagarin, Isaac E. Schine, Nathan
H. Schine and Joseph Spector.

In an impressive show of support for
Brandeis, 200 key Chicago community
leaders pledged $163,000 at a dmner
meeting, the first to be held in the inter-
ests of the University in the Windy City.
President Sachar was the featured speaker
at the gathering at which Philip Klutznick
presided. The meeting took place on De-
cember 6 at the Palmer House.

Co-chairmen of the Committee were
Samuel W. Banovitz, Henry Crown, John
J. Mack and Morton Weinress. Associate
chairmen were Abel Berland, Harry
Joseph, Joseph Schatz and Saul Weinress.

Serving on the Committee were Alfred
Benesch, Milton Callner, Marvin H. Cole-
man, Lester Crown, Nathan Cummings,
Julius Kelly Don, Edwin W. Eisendrath,
Benjamin Fohrman, William J. Friedman,
Gerald Gidwitz, James H. Goodwin, Har-
old Green, Jules Green, Michael Hammer,
Mrs. Walter Heller, Walter Heller, Luis
Kutner, Philip Klutznick, Mrs. Harold
Lachman, Joseph Makler, Mrs. Maurice
Mandel, Max W. Petaque, Sidney R.
Robinson, Orville Rosen, Arthur Rubloff,
Sanford Ruttenberg, Edgar Schoen, Nath-
an Schwartz, Saul S. Sherman, Alfred W.
Stern, Mrs. Morton Weinress and Max E.
Weinstock.

GREATER BOSTON WOMEN he.ird ■uuliy
member Mjne Syrk/ii (lejl) speuk uii Your
School. Your Children" at a Noiemher 14
meeting ivhich sparked the Chapter' i member-
ship drive. Mrs. Irving Abrams (right) is Presi-
dent of the Chapter which culminated its
campaign with more that 20 teas throughout
the city oil December 14.

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FROM BRANDEIS CAMPUS STORE

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graphs picturing student, faculty and cam-
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The Brandeis Calendar, which is the
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PHOTO ROUND-UP

Lere in photographs is a record of the week of October
30, a pictorial agenda illustrating the variety of events
sponsored by and for the University and typical of virtually
any week in the University's calendar of activities.

Brandeis people were in all parts of the country during
that week — President of the Board of Trustees George
Alpert was in California making new friends for Brandeis.
Inspired by his recount of the University's history and
plans, Los Angeles leaders contributed $50,000 for the sup-
port of Brandeis.

Later in the week Dr. Sachar was greeted in Ohio and then
in Florida. Director of Athletics Benny Friedman and faculty
member Marie Syrkin spoke in Chicago and Instructor
Thomas Savage addressed a group in Hartford.

On the campus the student body was preparing for its
final football game with Boston University, The New Eng-
land College English Association held its annual confer-
ence with Thornton Wilder, Bernard De Voto and Crane
Brinton on hand, and the University's philosophy depart-
ment sponsored a two-day commemoration of the 300th
anniversary of the death of Rene Descartes.

That was Brandeis during the week of October 30 — it
could have been any week.

AT THE NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION Conference
were, left to right, (seated) President Sachar; Dr. Rosemary Park,
President, Connecticut College for Women; Dr. Morse Allen, of
Trinity College, President of the Association; (standing) Bernord De
Voto, Editor of "The Easy Chair", Harper's Magazine; Dr. Osborne
Earle, Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis and Chairman of
the Conference Program Committee; and Crane Brinton, Professor
of History, Harvard University.

SADIE HAWKINS DAY DANCE v/as held by stu-
dents in the Usen Commons Room following the
final football game of the season with Boston
University. Students dressed "Dogpatch" style,
awarded prizes for the best costumes, sang hill-
billy songs.

"^^C^^^Jfi^,

FFICIAL PUBLICATION

OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

contents

Brandels — 19' I

In retrospecf 2

Brandeis and the military crisis 4

pioneer publications 6

cross-country tour 7

our acquisitions in art 8

the athletic association 10

Vol. I, No. 6 Feb. 25, 1951

Official Publication of Bran-
deis University published 13
times during year (once in
the months of September,
October, November, March,
June, July and August;
twice in the months of De-
cember, February, and May)
at Brandeis University, 415
South Street, Waltham 54,
Mass. Entered as second
class matter at the Post
Office in Boston, Mass.

Ino Curelop, Editor

Art work and cover design
by Donis Asnin; campus
photographs by Ralph Nor-
man.

teaching the sciences

the dinnensions of a liberal education 12

the story of castle B-503 14

scholarships 16

Brand

eisiana

On the cover: S+udenfs gather around Ludwig Lewisohn, Professor of Comparative
Literature, for an infornnal discussion before the fire in the Connmons Room of Smith Hall.

Brandeis- 1950

The University's major 1950
announcement was the
adoption of the $22,000,-
000, 10-year Saarinen Mas-
ter Plan (top). Another
significant event was the
dedication of Nathan Sei-
fer Hall. One of the sym-
bolic sculptured plaques
especially designed for the
Hall is reproduced in the
circle. (Below, right) In
the newly-dedicated Usen
Commons Room students
entertain each other. The
plaque in the background
commemorates the Usen
benefaction. Brandeis stu-
dent spirit reached a peak
with "Boost Brandeis
Week" (bottom, left).

■fe^

i? ^

in retrospect...

. . . 1950 was a year crowded with growth and innovation in every phase of the
University's development. In long-range terms the most Important project yet
launched at Brandels — the 10-year Saarinen Master Plan — was announced
officially early in the year, and construction of several buildings envisioned In
the plan was begun soon afterward .... October saw the completion of the
Ridgewood Quadrangle, now in use as men's dormitories, and Sydeman Hail,
housing supplementary science laboratories and classrooms .... Meanwhile,
on the 27-acre Memphis Tract construction was proceeding on the Abraham
Marcus Athletic Field .... Judge Joseph M. Proskauer and Mrs. Adele Rosen-
wald Levy were named Trustees and Senator hHerbert hH. Lehman and Mr. Frank
L. Well were chosen hHonorary Chairman and Chairman, respectively, of the
Board of Fellows. Milton Kahn was appointed National Chairman of the Bran-
dels Associates .... Seventeen new faculty members, Including Dr. Albert
Guerard, Dr. Robert A. Thornton, Miss Marie Syrkin, Dr. Svend Laursen, Mr.
Irving Fine and Dr. Saul Cohen, augmented the Brandels teaching staff .... In
September, 240 incoming freshmen brought the student body to 470 ....
Among them were the members of Coach Benny Friedman's first Brandels foot-
ball sguad which launched Intercollegiate athletic competition on the freshman
level for the University .... the frosh "Judges" won wide acclaim by winning
four out of six encounters, including a choice triumph over hlarvard .... Also in
action were freshman soccer and basketball teams .... The University con-
tributed to the cultural life of the Greater Boston area with its Adult Education
programs and with a commemoration of the death of Rene Descartes, a music
festival honoring Albert Schweitzer, and a Bach Festival .... Brandels was host
to the Fall Conference of the New England College English Association and in
May celebrated its Second Annual Convocation, highlighted by the address
of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt .... Extraordinary growth in membership and
scope of activities were noted by the Brandels Associates, the National Wom-
en's Committee, and the Friends of the School of Music .... The development
of these Brandels "foster alumni" groups paralleled the advances made within
the University Itself .... Many gifts received during the year accounted for
other developments .... The Usen Commons Room, Breltman Physics Labo-
ratory, Falk Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Richard Cohn Chemistry Laboratory,
Fell hJealth Office, Shapiro Athletic Center, and Sydeman hiall all were the
result of benefactions received in 1950 .... The Tuch Chair In hiebrew Litera-
ture and Ethics, the Aronstam Chair In Chemistry, ihe four Stonehill Teaching
Fellowships, the William C. Whitney Foundation Grant were also added, and
22 scholarship funds Including 16 which provide for a total of 21 full tuition
scholarships were established during the year .... The largest single contribu-
tion was received from Israel Rogosin who provided his second $100,000 gift
.... The University Library was the recipient of many outstanding gifts in-
cluding the Blumberg Mathematics Collection, the Cuppy, Hill-
quit and Manishen libraries, the Weil first editions and the
Jacob White Fund. The gratifying development within every
sphere of endeavor in 1950 augurs well for the coming years.

J^%tiM .^*S*- 1

(Top to bottom) More than
6,000 people convened on the
campus in May to participate
in the University's Second
Annual Convocation and hear
featured speaker Eleanor
Roosevelt. The Ground-break-
ing Ceremony for the Abra-
ham Marcus Playing Field
took place with Board Presi-
dent George Alpert and Trus-
tees Morris S. Shapiro, Jacob
Shapiro, Dudley Kimball and
Coach Benny Friedman look-
ing on as Joseph Linsey, Ath-
letic Association Chairman,
officiated. In the fall, con-
struction of Sydeman Hall,
underwritten by funds from
the estate of the late William
Sydeman, was completed. The
University launched its inter-
collegiate athletic program
with Coach Friedman's fresh-
man football squad. By Octo-
ber, construction was also
completed on the Saarinen-
designed Ridgewood Apart-
ments serving as men's dormi-
tories and comprising the
Ridgewood Quadrangle.

In a specially-called
student convocation
Dr. Sochar candidly
discussed the possi-
ble repercussions on
campus of the na-
tional state of emer-
gency, and exhorted
students to continue
planning careers.

Brandeis and the

President Sachar

The international crisis has produced a
state of emergency within the nation which
has already had its impact upon every phase
of our society. It is inevitable that each of
us should attempt to assay the probable im-
pact upon the institutions and activities in
which we are integrally involved.

Of course there are defeatists who feel
that there is little point in making such ap-
praisals, hiaving swooned into despair, they
conclude that nothing matters now. Such
Cassandras are the weak links in our democra-
tic society, dangerous to themselves and a menace to the survival of a
free world. Our enemies want nothing better than to sap our confidence in
the validity of our democratic heritage and in our capacity to face the
challenges of today and tomorrow. It is our obligation to prepare for all
the exceptional demands of a period of emergency re-armament. But it
is also our obligation to prepare for the long-term affirmative needs of
normal democratic living. It Is in this framework that I wish to consider
the questions most frequently posed by our friends. I shall try to deal
with them frankly and realistically.

Can Brandeis survive during a war period?

Brandeis is in a far better position to face a critical period than the
majority of American colleges and universities. Our disadvantages during
normal times become elements of strength during a crisis. The school Is
new and extremely flexible. It Is possible to adjust curriculum, faculty,
physical facilities and plans with a minimum of dislocation. In truth, be-
cause Brandeis is In-being, or better still. In process-of-becoming, it can
react with boldness and imagination.

How will the draft affect enrollment at Brandeis?

The major consequences of the draft will be experienced by all-male
colleges and by the large-size universities. Small, co-educational Institu-
tions such as Brandeis will not be jeopardized. Depending upon the nature
of the final draft law enacted by Congress, it is probable that the
Brandeis student body will shift in its proportions and register many more
women than men, during the transition to a war basis. Applications for
the coming academic year have run far ahead of the numbers of previous
years. It can therefore be said, with a high degree of certainty, that
Brandeis enrollment in the foreseeable future will continue to expand at
its normal pace.
Will Brandeis facilities and personnel be utilized in the preparedness effort?

If they can be of use to the nation, they will be made available. At
present, no branch of the armed services has announced any program

• . r-\njT>r

military crisis

by Dr. Abram L. Sachar

comparable to the A.S.T.P. of World War II.
If emergency programs similar to those
devised for college campuses in World War II
are launched again, Brandeis will offer its full
cooperation and participation.

Is the curriculum to be altered?

There is no plan at the present writing for
any major revisions in the Brandeis curriculum.
It was devised to prepare young men and
women for full-orbed, constructive lives. There
is even greater need today to make sure of
a continuous pool of mature and well-trained
leaders. It is quite logical, however, to expect
that a prolonged state of emergency will in-
fluence the interests of students and con-
sequently require shifts in emphasis from one
field to another, for example, from the fine
arts and humanities to the sciences and the
social sciences.

Does the University contemplate
an accelerated program?

This question can be answered only after an
examination of the full effects of projected
draft legislation. The experience of the major
colleges and universities demonstrated that
there was very little integrity in the acceler-
ated programs of World War II. There was too
much strain and pressure, too little permanent
impact. hHowever, if circumstances compel
some form of acceleration, Brandeis will follow
the practice of similar institutions even though
It will do so reluctantly.

Will the Brandeis program of physical
expansion continue?

It will follow the time-table of the Master
Plan until such time as national needs compel
curtailment. During the calendar year 1950,
the University completed the construction of
six new buildings and has begun the develop-
ment of the Abraham Marcus Athletic Field.

The buildings included Sydeman \-\a\\, a class-
room building for the sciences, and the five
Saarlnen-deslgned dormitories comprising the
Ridgewood Quadrangle. At a recent meeting
of the Board of Trustees, it was unanimously
voted to adopt the report of Meyer Jaffe,
speaking for the Building Committee, which
called for a capital expansion expenditure of
nearly one million dollars during the first six
months of 1951. Architects' plans are now be-
ing rushed for a new grouping of dormitories,
a Social Union building, an additional class-
room building, and the Abraham Shapiro Ath-
letic Center. Such action not only assures the
strengthening of the physical facilities of the
University, but represents an act of faith, a re-
affirmation of the determination of the Trus-
tees to treat obstacles as a springboard of
achievement.

One other thought may be added, not to
answer any specific question but rather to
point up the climate in which all questions are
considered at the University.

Because of Russian aggression, it has be-
come essential to prepare for possibilities of
danger that stagger the imagination. It is
equally essential to live for the fulfillment of
every creative hope. There is an obligation to
marshal our national resources, to apply our
manpower and our productive capacity so that
our strength will deter our enemies, or, failing
this, will be adequate to meet any assault.

But when the sacrifices have been made, it
is the obligation of every element In society
to live as normally as possible within the frame-
work of assigned responsibilities. Students
must go on with their regular studies. They
must do each day's job as best they can. Their
finest contribution for ultimate usefulness is to
avoid paralysis of will because of the present
anxiety. Both as a long-term philosophy of
life and as a strategy for the imme-
diate crisis, it Is best to prepare for
the worst, but to live for the best.

The Justice staff at work:
Ruth Abrams, New
Rochelle, Ruth Cohen,
Brooklyn, N.Y., Burton
Berinsky, Dorchester
Mass., Carl Werner
Brookllne, Mass., and Da
vid Van Praagh, Gaffney
S.C. Below, the Year
book's Editor-in-Chief
Jason Aronson, Revere
Mass., and an illustration
from the Turret.

pioneer publications

One of the most significant phases of Brandeis undergraduate activity has
been the creation and development of three publications, separately main-
tained by staffs comprised of members of all three classes and unified in their
adherence to the best standards of creative writing, reporting and reviewing.
The bi-weekly newspaper, The Justice, was the students' first publishing
venture. Begun as a monthly news organ by a handful of freshmen in 1948,
The justice has kept pace with the expansion of the University. The present
staff of 30 puts out the four-page tabloid-size paper under the Co-Editorship
of David Van Praagh, Gaffney, S. C, and Carl Werner, Brookline, Mass.

The literary periodical, the Turret, is also in its
third year of publication. The staff, headed by
Lora S. Levy, Boston, Mass., selects, edits and
processes the short stories, poems and articles
which comprise the contents of each issue.
Thomas Savage, author and instructor in English,
is faculty advisor to the Turret.

The prospective senior class is eagerly antic-
ipating the completion of its most ambitious
publishing enterprise which will be a review of
the Brandeis "pilot" class and the University's
first four years. Jason Aronson, Revere, Mass.,
is Editor of the Yearbook which will make its ini-
tial appearance in 1952 when the University's
first Commencement Exercises take place. It Is
the goal of the staff to make the Yearbook
worthy of being called "another Brandeis first"
and to establish precedent for succeeding classes.

cross-country , tour

by George Alpert

President of the Board of Trustees

Eighteen months ago when we first undertook
to tell the story of Brandels University to groups
in distant parts of the country, my feelings were
much like those harbored, I imagine, by the an-
cient explorers as they set out on their voyages
across the uncharted seas. What would be the
difficulties encountered? What opportunities
presented? And what, finally, would be the
fruits of such arduous efforts?

Prior to that time the endeavor to secure
support for the University had been fairly
closely confined to New England where, by their
relative proximity to the campus, people had
become familiar with the concept underlying
the development of Brandeis and with the
record it was achieving. On the other hand,
people in sections of the country more remote
from the University knew little about its ac-
complishments and purposes.

Accordingly, itineraries were planned for
trips from "the rockbound coast of Maine to
the sunny shores of California" — trips which
were to bring the exciting story of Brandeis into
many of the great communities in this land. The
list of cities compiled for my excursions read
like a railroad schedule covering Albany, Louis-
ville, Cincinnati, Toledo, Kansas City, Chicago,
Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Washington, D. C.,
Atlanta, Memphis, Los Angeles, San Francisco
and compass points between.

I found the Jewish people in all these cities
to be generous, interested, and warmly respon-
sive to the story of this pioneering contribution
by American Jewry to higher education in our
country. I found them anxious about the success
of the undertaking but certain beyond doubt
of its inestimable value and proud be-
yond measure of what the University
has already accomplished. And I found
them ready and willing to demonstrate
iheir faith in the ideals and values
upon which Brandeis University was
founded.

I had entertained many a doubt
concerning the ability of these com-

munities, already
burdened by the
demands of other
worthy appeals
for support, to
give sufficiently
of their effort
and resources In
order that the University might receive the wide
and solid support so urgently needed.

But my doubts and trepidations were rapidly
dispelled. I found, to the great gratification of
everyone connected with the founding of Bran-
deis, that American Jewry can be counted on
to display unbounded generosity and devotion
to a cause which Is close to their hearts. In all my
travels I never once heard a voice raised in
reluctance to undertake this extra burden.
Never did I have to "sell" Brandeis to evoke
interest. All I had to do was to lay the problem
squarely in front of them without dross or gloss
— the will to help was already there.

In the course of my travels there occurred
many outstanding and gratifying manifestations
of friendship for Brandeis. I wish that space per-
mitted my mention of every heartwarming ex-
perience and all the equally stirring demonstra-
tions of enthusiasm for Brandeis which I met
during my peregrinations on behalf of the
University.

But perhaps the most heartening experience
of all has been the unanimous loyalty of the men
and women who have formed and joined chap-
ters of the Brandeis Associates and of the
National Women's Committee of Brandeis
throughout the country.

I shall consider my mission accom-
plished If for every mile I traveled
during the past year and a half the
University can secure a member of
the Associates and a member of the
Women's Committee. If that objec-
tive can be attained — and I have
every confidence that It can — my
odyssey will have been well made.

our acquisitions

by Marvin Small

I. Rice Pereira is a native of Boston
now working in England. Her paintings
hang in Annerica's leading museunns.

Philip Evergood paints sharply
satiric representations. Here "The
Senators" is reproduced.

Tolstoy has said that "art is a human
activity having for its purpose the transnnis-
sion to others of the highest and best feel-
ings to which nnen have risen." The art
of any era has always been a key synnbol
of the cultural climate of the society which
produced the artist and of the intellectual
and emotional levels of that society.

In undertaking the collection of paintings
and other objects of art, the University is
building a reservoir of contemporary crea-
tive endeavor. This collection will not only
represent the currents of thought and ex-
pression which characterize twentieth cen-
tury civilization, but will also embody the
personality and sensitivity of some of the
foremost artists of the day.

Cognizant of the significance of art, the
Brandeis Art Collection Committee has
gathered a nucleus to serve both as a source
of study and inspiration to undergraduates
and as a contribution to the cultural life of
the community.

Though to date the collection is predomi-
nantly drawn from the works of contem-
porary artists, It Is hoped that a balance
between the modern and the classic, the
advance guard and the traditional, will de-
velop so that students of art and art lovers
may become familiar with representations

Milton Avery paints softly and simply,
often with a deep undercurrent of
ennotion.

in art

The paintings repro-
duced liere are rep-
resentative of the
woric of our fore-
most artists and sev-
eral of them are on
view in the Usen
Commons Room.
Marvin Small, New
York, is Chairman of
the Brandeis Art
Collection Committee.

from every major period and phase
of the visual arts. The Collection
•will figure strongly in the curriculum
of the Creative Arts Center for
those students who are preparing
for a career In the arts.

The University's Art Collection
now numbers close to three hundred
paintings and sculptures. It includes
the paintings reproduced on these
pages and others by such noted
artists as George Grosz, Martin Friedman,
Tchackbasov, and Gwathmey. They have been
donated by the artists, by prominent art col-
lectors, or acquired through funds specifically
designated for the enlargement of the Collection.
Two such gifts have been the Louis Schapiro Mod-
ern Art Collection and the Lena Seitlen Fund.

In enhancing the walls of present and future
buildings, the paintings will serve as adornment
and will also fulfill the more far-reaching purpose
of furthering the knowledge and appreciation of
art, for by their presence at the University they
will stimulate pleasure in sensitively created
works of art. The Art Collection Committee
anticipates the time when the University will have
established Its reputation as a repository of some
of the highest artistic achievements of man and
as a medium for the extension of that achieve-
ment to the community and to the nation.

Noted art collector and publisher
Harry N. Abrams donated this
painting by Ferdinand Leger.

A landscape by Stuart Davis, who Is
recognized as one of the nation's most
distinguished artists.

the

athletic association

by Joseph Linsey, Chairman

The past few months have seen the initiation of another Brandels "team of
destiny", for in basketball, too, we have entered the field of Intercollegiate
competition. On the basketball court, as on the football field, we are meeting
the challenge of our hloly Cross, Dartmouth, West Point, and hiarvard oppo-
nents. In the typically American tradition of fair team play and healthy com-
petition, athletic activities at the University are off to a good start.

This fine beginning has been given impetus by the united action and co-
operation of a group of men who, with foresight and spirit, have dedicated
themselves to promoting the Brandels ideals on the athletic field. Working in
conjunction with Benny Friedman, our able Director of University Athletics, this
nucleus of men forms the basis of the Brandels University Athletic Association.

Within a short time we shall break ground for the Abraham Shapiro Ath-
etic Center which will accommodate the athletic activities of our student popu-
ation, and we look forward to the dedication of the Abraham Marcus Playing
Field this spring. This winter we are extending our activities io New York, where
we expect to unfold the Brandels story to new friends of the University. The
enthusiasm and vigor of our group is sure to spread across the count'-y, for we
have the utmost confidence in our objective.

It is the fervent desire of all of us connected
with the organization to provide the opportunity
for the complete development of the Individual
student, not only on the Intellectual, cultural
and social levels, but on the physical as well.
Soundness of mind and body — achieved only
through a well-rounded educational program —
are the true characteristics of responsible, ma-
ture citizens, able and willing to assume their
duties In a democratic world.

Brandels vs. Harvard

Brandeis vs. West Point

teaching the sciences

by Dr. Robert A. Thornton

Dr. Thornton, Lecturer in
Physics at Brandeis, and
former Professor of Physi-
cal Sciences at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, has suc-
cessfully combined a career
in the field of physics with
a study of the techniques
of teaching the sciences.

The physical science component of the gen-
eral education curriculum at Brandeis is being
designed to accomplish two aims, namely, to
provide a basic understanding of physical sci-
ence in terms of its own activities, and to show
its relations to other intellectual disciplines.

The kinds of problems the physical scientist
investigates, how he formulates them, and the
methods and devices he uses to solve them form
the core of the course. Emphasis is placed on
the means of acquiring facts and the reasoning
processes used in interpreting them. Our pri-
mary concern is with these processes, which con-
tain the conceptual and logical schemes of
science, rather than with the memorization of
an accepted body of information. The subject
matter of physical science must, however, be
mastered at some depth.

Here the idea of teaching physical science as
a neat package of information breaks down be-
cause any discussion of the elements of scientific
thinking and conceptualizing overflow into other
areas of knowledge. For example, a discussion
of the "operational definition", so much in
vogue today in science, has little meaning unless
the "process of definition". Including by con-
trast other types of definitions. Is discussed.
Again, the special uses of "explanation" in the
physical sciences should be accompanied by a
more general discussion of the process of ex-
planation Itself. Such Intellectual excursions
break down the false conceptual barriers sep-
arating the various fields of learning. This Is the
humanistic approach to science and, as such,

helps the student Incorporate his sci-
ence education Into his total, inte-
grated personality.

The construction of this human-
istic science course compels us to
consider the aims and purposes of a
general education and the basis of
selecting the material for the
courses. The subject matter should
be selected in order, first, to initiate
the student into the overlapping
mental disciplines of formal thinking,
empirical inquiry, controlled hypoth-
esis, and appreciation. In both the
actual teaching situation and the life of the
student these four disciplines occur simulta-
neously and connectedly in various degrees. Since
many different arrangements of subject matter
are possible in terms of these disciplines, it is
necessary to keep In mind a second principle
of selection, that of choosing material to give
the student perspective in his own strategic de-
cisions; to provide insight Into current problems
of social policy; to feel, through a ^ personal
Interpretation, the importance of man's literary
and artistic contributions; and to promote in-
telligent living in the sort of universe which
science is continually revealing to us and in-
creasingly enabling us to adapt and control.

In giving a flexible content to general educa-
tion, these two principles of selection provide
for the achievement of certain meaningful and
defensible objectives, for example, the con-
ception which the sciences give of the physical
world today, the nature and functioning of living
organisms, and the psychological processes that
determine the behavior of men.

This approach helps the student realize that
theoretical knowledge is
not opposed to applied
knowledge, that his sci-
ence education Is one of
inter - relationships, that
abstract thinking does not
exclude concrete thinking,
and that these activities
cooperate in all mature
persons and societies.

the dimensions of a

In December of last
year Max Lerner,
Brandeis Professor of
American Civilization
and Institutions, de-
livered the feature
address at the Sec-
ond Annual Dinner
of the Greater Bos-
ton Brandeis Associ-
ates to the 1100 peo-
ple who assembled
to participate. Mr.
Lerner prepared this
condensation of his
address exclusively
for the Review.

by Dr. Max Lerner

We who are trying our best to carry on the process
of education are aware that we are doing so on the
edge of an abyss. It is extremely difficult to be
teaching young men and women at this time because,
as we teach, we perceive the truth of H. G. Wells'
remark that civilization is a race between education
and catastrophe.

Nevertheless, at Brandeis we have a sense of ex-
citement in being able to build from the bottom up.
Anatole France once said that a child born Into any
society is born with a beard. Often that is the case
in a university that has been made and finished for
hundreds of years, but here we can shape things
creatively according to our best thinking.

Brandeis University has divided itself Into three schools: the School of Sci-
ence, the School of Humanities and the School of Social Sciences, each of
them corresponding to a portion of the effort that the world, and our country
especially, has to make. It is the world of science that must give us the
weapons with which to defend ourselves in the event of war. It is the world
of the humanistic tradition for which we shall be fighting if we have to. It is
the world of society, Including our own civilization and those of our potential
allies and opponents, which we have to understand in all its intricacies.

The sciences that we are cultivating must be used not to destroy, but to
build and to enlarge the dimensions and graciousness of life. The society that
we are studying must eventually become a world society, in which men re-
discover that they are not enemies, that they can live together even while
they differ. The humanistic tradition is something we must always renew
and enrich. It must always be transcended by fresher appreciations of what
men have wrought and thought and done, and by new creativeness. The
responsibility of a university is to continue nurturing the competition of ideas,
to keep open the channels of communication among scientists on every side
of every boundary line, and among social thinkers in every civilization.

Deeply implicit in the whole of American history have been certain life
purposes, namely, freedom and equality and a career open to the talent and
the dignity of the person. We intend to link the design of our university with
those basic life purposes. But a number of accretions have overlaid them and
have become, in a way, so important that they have almost displaced those
life purposes. hHow shall I enumerate them: acquisitiveness, prestige, the
concern not about what you are but of what others think of you, the worship
of surface values, the cult of what William James once called in a rough Amer-
ican phrase "the bitch goddess. Success." It is not the function of a university
to minister to those purposes.

Part of the difficulty with our society is that we have developed so magni-
ficently our splendid, gleaming weapons of destruction without developing the
knowledge of what we want to live by. R. H. Tawney, an Englishman, once
wrote a book called "The Sickness of an Acquisitive Society." It has been
suggested that Tawney's phrase might also be reversed to denote the acquisi-
tiveness of a sick society, that people think In terms of power lust because of

liberal education

a deep sickness in world society as a whole
today. As we lay out the design for a univer-
sity, it is necessary for us to reaffirm the vitality
of those goals in life which are beyond the heap-
ing up of material things, to reassert that there
is something to be done to heal this sick spirit,
and to fill the vacuum of emotional emptiness.

We at Brandels have activated our idea of a
university with the heavy consciousness of the
extent to which the basic business of democracy
in America is still unfinished. Too many times
the universities of America have asked the
wrong questions of the young people, but we
are trying to ask the right questions — "Who are
you? What kind of person are you? What are
you dreaming of? What is in your heart and
what skills do you have? What skills can you
develop? What passion is there in you for
learning, what passion of heart and mind? Do
you want to dedicate yourself to this?"

Teaching students democracy means practic-
ing democracy on the campus, in the student
body, in the faculty. In that way we can have
some Influence, not only on our own campus but
in the rest of the country, as a focal center for
the democratic idea In practice.

In a university such as Brandels which Is
oriented toward the students, the course of
study ought to be directed toward understand-
ing the human being as a growing organism, and

the phases of that growth from its inception up
to manhood and womanhood. We must try to
understand what goes on in the minds of college
students, not only In their studies, but also their
daydreams, the deep frustrations, the sense of
ambition, that wonderful Idealism which can be
so deeply-rooted In young people, their tough-
mlndedness and their sense of heroism when
confronted with something difficult to achieve.

What we need In the world today more than
anything else Is the education of the heart. We
must understand that the education of the ra-
tional and the logical Is only one phase of edu-
cating the whole student. The understanding
of the non-rational and the irrational Is also es-
sential. And it Is to that concept of education
that Brandels dedicates Itself.

Brandels University Is perhaps the only really
strong and spontaneous Idea that has emerged
out of our Jewish community of America since
the heroism of the soldiers and settlers of Israel.
It has captured the Imagination and the hearts
of many people. It Is an Idea which needs only
to be grasped in Its full Implications In order for
us to see how deeply it reaches to the crisis
of our time and the paths towards the solution
of that crisis.

Someone has said that nothing In the world
compares with the power of an Idea whose hour
has struck. All of us are enlisted in the collabora-
tion on an Idea whose hour has struck.

the

B-503 is an Impersona
number. It designates one of
the many dormitory rooms in
the Castle where the majority of the
women students live, and which has become
the landmark of the University. But It is unique
because, paradoxically enough, it typifies
through its three occupants, the Brandeis pat-
tern of successful communal living. This facet
of college life, the mutually rewarding experi-
ences drawn from diversified regions, nation-
alities, backgrounds and interests, is rarely
brought so sharply into focus as it is in
Castle B-503.

Tamar Soloff, '52, Theresa Danley (Terrey
to her classmates) and Lois Spiro, both '53, are
the three girls who share the room on the fifth
floor in one of the towers of the Castle. Within
the suspended ceiling and stucco walls, which
still recall the room's conversion from a medi-
cal laboratory, are enclosed the beds, the
dressers, desks and metal wardrobes of the
three students.

In this setting has evolved one of the campus'
most marked instances of harmonious living.
Lois and Terrey, who roomed together last
year, and Tamar, who is a transfer student,
tacitly demonstrate that they have learned to
accept the responsibilities and duties of com-
munity life, and to contribute towards the wel-
fare and happiness of the group. They have In
fact learned to live together and like It.

Tamar had her first two years of college
education at the University of Maryland. hHer
home is In Baltimore where her father, a Rabbi,
is Director of the Reform Jewish Educational
Board. Tamar has lived In many cities because
her father's occupation has taken the Soloffs
throughout the country. An English major hop-

story

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V ^^^El^^ '"^9' Tamar was attracted to

I ^P^^ Brandeis because of Its small size
and the opportunities of Its ideal faculty-
student relationship.

Terrey Is a sociable, lively sophomore. She
Is a Negro, daughter of a government official
In the Labor Department and hails from Wash-
ington, D.C. In Woodstock, Vt., where she
attended a private school, she first became in-
terested In Brandeis. With an excellent record
behind her, she was readily admitted to the
University, where she has still to decide on
her major field of concentration.

Lois Is the first recipient of the Mayper
Award at Brandeis for her outstanding contri-
bution in promoting inter-faith understanding
and Is the active and energetic president of the
Newman Club, an inter-campus organization of
Catholic students. Lois attended high school
In Falmouth, Mass., where she was awarded a
scholarship for her achievements. At Brandeis
she Is earnestly at work on her time-consuming
major, biology, spending most of her afternoons
In lab sessions, hier fifteen-hour-a-week job in
the Registrar's office will supplement her schol-
arship In seeing her through college.

These diverse strands of backgrounds have
been woven Into a fabric of accord in Room
B-503. hiere in typical college fashion the girls
find sympathetic ears awaiting their problems,
however simple or complicated they may be.
Like a closely-knit family group, their unity Is
strengthened by sharing both their pleasures
and complaints, gripes and good times, and
their differing viewpoints on the deeper ques-
tions of truth and life.

In B-503 Lois, Terrey and Tamar often discuss
religion. Each has found that she has come

of castle B-503

by Ina Curelop

Theresa Danley,

to know more about her own religion through con-
tact with the others, and the experience has been
a rich and broadening one for all of thenn.

Lois, for instance, has been asked questions that
have been difficult to answer because her religion
has always been a sanction which never needed
explaining to others. Before coming to Brandels
she had never associated with Jewish people, and
only a little with Protestants. She was afraid
to enroll in the University but her parents con-
vinced her that a good, small school would suit
her. During her first few months at Brandeis she
was extremely self-conscious, but soon found that

religious beliefs, as Intensely meaningful as they are to the individual, need
not be the only frame of reference In forming the solid foundation for
lasting friendships.

Tamar, who was anxious to test her Ideas of liberality and Inter-racial un-
derstanding, transferred from the University of Maryland and found, through
Brandels campus life, that she can live with others of varying backgrounds
and respect their ideas. A highly adaptable girl, she easily integrated into
Brandels life. She Is an honor student and an active member of the hiebrew,
hflllel, Outing and Drama Clubs.

Terrey had always been the only Negro in the schools which she attended.
Before coming to Brandels she had never had the opportunity to learn about
Jews as a group, but because she is so interested In people as individuals, she
has learned much, and has had little difficulty in
getting along. This year she was elected one of
two representatives on the Castle hHouse Council.

Though the three sleep, study and relax In the
same room, each finds no conflict in her personal
program with that of the other two. With such
varied courses of study, moreover, it is not un-
usual to drop in on an evening and find one girl
sleeping, a second typing, and the third at work
on her laundry. Their amiably planned schedule
allows for adequate privacy for each individual in
an atmosphere of conviviality. A little considera-
tion goes a long way, they all assert, in maintain-
ing accord and understanding.

Tamar Soloff, '52

Lois Spiro, '53

Morris S. Sh

scholarships

by C. Ruggles Smith

Director of Adm'iss'ioni

Brandels University's quo+a-free admissions policy is
dedicated to the eradication of the economic discrimina-
tion which so often bars worthy young men and women from
the opportunities of higher education. In a recent report submit-
ted to his fellow-members of the Board of Trustees, Morris S. Shapiro, Chair-
man of the Board's Committee on Scholarships and Aid, announced that
Brandeis this year has awarded more than 150 scholarships or other forms of
financial aid. Sixty-seven members of the third freshman class are recipients of
these scholarships for the current academic year and at least half of the sopho-
mores and juniors receiving financial aid are on the Dean's List.

At present close to one-third of the total student body is receiving scholar-
ship, loan or student employment assistance. Older and more liberally endowed
universities such as Wellesley and Harvard maintain 35% and 42%, respec-
tively, of their student bodies on scholarship or other forms of financial
assistance. The Brandeis student aid program approximates those of longer-
established colleges, though, unlike other Institutions, the Brandeis scholarship
needs continue to increase in proportion to the expansion of the student body.

The 150 scholarship funds have come from Individuals and groups through-
out the country, for example, the Justice Cardozo Scholarship Fund for a
gifted student from New York City; the B. M. Goldberger Scholarship for a
student from hHollywood, Fla.; and the Sam Abraham Memorial Scholarship for
a Memphis student. Other funds benefit students of a particular category: the
Sidney hHIIIman Scholarship for those "interested in world peace, Improved race
relations and a strengthened labor movement"; the Gottfried and Doris Bern-
stein Scholarship for a blind student; the Elson Alumnae Club Scholarship for a
musically talented student. The largest single fund is the Joseph and Lottie
Rabinovltz Scholarship Endowment Fund established in 1949 to provide two
full tuition scholarships yearly.

The advent of each new class has multiplied the
cost of financial aid until it has now reached a total
of over $90,000 for an enrollment of 470. Whether
the Committee on Admissions will be able to con-
tinue to disregard the economic status of appli-
cants, looking only to the merit of the individual, is
now wholly dependent on the receipt by the Uni-
versity of substantial additional funds for scholar-
ships. The generosity of benefactors is enabling
many qualified students to receive the education
that one day will be repaid by service to the com-
munity and nation. To sustain its idealistic admis- ^^^^^^^^^^

slons policy, Brandeis must rely on the charitable JH^^I^^^^L^C.

selflessness of donors throughout the nation. c. Ruggles Smith

Brandeisiana

The Friends of the School of Music is sponsoring a series
of six concerts on +he cannpus. Irving Fine and Erwin Bodky
of the Brandeis Music Faculty will perform in three of the
concerts and guest artists are Zvi Zeitlen, Israeli violinist,
Paul Matthen, bass-baritone, Alfred Krips, violin and

Samuel Mayes, cello. Recitals by Herman Godess, pianist,
and Norma Farber, soprano, have already taken place.

Justice Felix Frankfurter delivered the first Annual Louis

Dembitz Brandeis Lecture on February 14 at the University on

"How the Supreme Court decides cases: disclosure of the familiar".

Among the prominent personalities who have visited the Brandeis

campus recently were Mrs. Pierre Monteux, wife of the eminent

conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Meyer Jaffe, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Building Committee,

announces that two women's dormitories and a student center

building will go under construction In the spring and

will be readied for the 1951-52 academic year. This

next phase of the building program Is estimated to cost $800,000.

Marie Syrkin and Merrill Peterson, of the Brandeis faculty,
were guests of radio station WCRB in Waltham in a round-table

broadcast concerning the current Korean situation. Faculty members
from M.I.T. and Boston University also participated.

A 35mm. film strip on Brandeis, comprised of 65 photos depicting

all phases of the University, has been prepared under the

auspices of the National Women's Committee and is available

to groups who wish to show it. The film is

accompanied by a recorded commentary.

Jan Peerce, famed operatic tenor, whose home is In New Rochelle,
New York, has become a member of the New York
Chapter of the Brandeis University Associates.

Through the facilities of the American Broadcasting Company,

Brandeis students competed in an international quiz contest
with students from Bangor University in Wales, England,
via short wave, on February 26.

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Brandeis
University

President of the University
DR. ABRAM L SACHAR

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Fellows
HON. HERBERT H. LEHMAN

Chairman of the Board of Fellows
FRANK L WEIL

The Board of Trustees

GEORGE ALPERT, President
JAMES J. AXELROD
JOSEPH F. FORD
MEYER JAFFE
DUDLEY F. KIMBALL
PAUL KLAPPER
ADELE ROSENWALD LEVY
ISADORE LUBIN
DAVID K. NILES
JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER
NORMAN S. RABB
ISRAEL ROGOSIN
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
JACOB SHAPIRO
MORRIS S. SHAPIRO

President of the National Women's Committee
EDITH G. MICHAELS

National Chairman of the Brandeis Associates

MILTON KAHN I

Chairman of the Friends of The School of Music
ADOLPH ULLMAN

Chairman of the Brandeis University Athletic Association
JOSEPH LINSEY

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As George Alpert, President
of the Brandeis Board of
Trustees, looks on, Massachu-
setts Governor Paul A. Dever
signs the Brandeis Charter
Amendment Bill broadening
the University's degree-grant-
ing powers and removing
restrictions on holding assets.
(Story, page 2)

NEWS ISSUE

BRANDEIS RECEIVES AUTHORITY TO CONFER

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREES

BOSTON ASSOCIATES

NUMBER MORE THAN 1000

The 1000th iiit-iiibi-r of the Boston
Chapter is l^ou Periiii, building ron-
Iractor and owner of the Boston
Braves, who «as made an honorary
member in recognition of his out-
standing efforts on behalf of Brandeis.
Mr. Perini is President of B. Perini &
Sons, Inc., General Contractors.
Enrollment in the Greater Boston
Chapter of the Brandeis llniversity
Associates has exceeded 1000 fulfill-
ing the Chapter's membership goal.

Charter Amendment Lifts Restriction on Assets

The right to confer both graduate and
undergraduate degrees was granted to
Brandeis University last month by the
Massachusetts State Legislature when
Paul A. Dever, Governor of the Conunon-
wealth. affixed his signature to a bill
amending the Ihiiversity Charter.

Before Gov. Dever signed the hill.
Brandeis was able to grant only the
degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of
science, and medical and dental degrees.

LOU/5 EMERMAN HALL UNDERWRITTEN BY
LATE CHICAGO INDUSTRIALISTS FAMILY

Louis Emerman Htitl,
one of the men's resi-
lience halls iihich form
ihe Soar in en-designed
Hidgewnod Quadrangle,
is named in honor of the
late Louis Emerman oj
(Jiicago, u'hose family
provided the funds for
its construction.

POLIVNICK WILL ENDOWS
SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND

The estate of the late Morris Polivnick,
in accordance with the terms of his will,
has set aside $10,000 for the establish-
ment of a scholarship trust fund at Bran-
deis, it was announced by Morris S.
Shapiro, Chairman of the Board Commit-
tee on Scholarships and Aid. Morris
Polivnick, Brooklyn builder and real
estate man. died last year.

Mr. Polivnick was a veteran of World
War II and well known as a philanthro-
pist among educational institutions and
Jewish charitable groups in this country
and in Israel, where he visited in 1949.
He had developed through his travels an
intimate knowledge of this country,
Europe and Israel.

Mr. Polivnick died on May 31 of last
year leaving his widow and two young
daughters. His father, two brothers and
a sister also survive him.

The family of Louis Emerman, late
Chicago businessman. has donated
$50,000 to underwrite one of the recently
completed residences in Ridgewood Quad-
rangle. To be named Louis Emerman
Hall, the dormitory is among the first of
the I'niversity's Master Plan buildings,
designed by Saarinen, Saarinen and Asso-
ciates, to be erected.

Mr. Emerman served in the LI. S. Army
during World War 1 and during the
second World War he produced Oerlikon
gun mounts for the Army. He devoted
much of his time and efforts to helping
young business firms become established.
He was founder of the Emerman Machin-
ery Corporation of Chicago and at the
time of his death was Chairman of the
Boards of the Unit Crane and Shovel
Company and of the Davis and Thompson
Company of Milwaukee.

Funds for the construction of Louis
Emerman Hall were the gift of Mrs. L. E.
Emerman ; the Emermans" daughters Mrs.
Perry Cohen and Mrs. Saul S. Sherman;
and the Emerman family.

The Charter amendment empowering
Brandeis to confer all further degrees con-
sistent with the educational purposes of
the University was hailed by George
Alpert. President of the Board, as "a
great step forward for the LIniversitv.

Another limitation removed by the
amendment was the $5,000,000 ceiling on
assets which Brandeis is authorized to
hold. With the lifting of the restriction,
Brandeis is enabled to accept large gifts
for expanding the University's educa-
tional resources.

In connection with the expanded degree-
granting powers, the development of
graduate and professional schools at
Brandeis will be explored by a committee
appointed by the Board. L'niversit)
officials indicated that Brandeis is con-
sidering launching a graduate School of
Arts and Sciences in '52-'53 leading to
the master of arts and doctor of philos-
ophy degrees. Brandeis will graduate its
first class in 1952.

Other educational areas on the gradu-
ate level which the Board is expected to
analyze are education, law, business and
public adininistration, social work, and
the creative arts.

The action by the State Legislature and
Gov. Dever came as a climax to the Uni-
versity's first three years. Other notable
developments have been the growth of
the campus from 100 to 160 acres, the
expansion from 8 to 14 major buildings,
and the increase of the faculty and
student bodies.

/VEB ORLEANS SUPPORT ADDED
TO VIMVERSITY AFFILIATES

The National Women's Committee and
the Brandeis Associates gained more
affiliates recently when new chapters were
formed in New Orleans. La. Meetings in
the Delta City were the culmination of
organizational activity which took place
over a period of several months.

Elected to head the New Orleans men's
group was Harry J. Blumenthal. Other
members include Dr. Samuel Carlin,
Moise Dennery, Frank Friedler, Shepard
Latter, Leo Mervis, Harold S. Mayer,
Harry Nowalsky and Simon K. Marx.

Mrs. Leo Mervis was elected President
of the New Orleans Chapter of the Wo-
men's Committee. Assisting her will be
Mrs. Sidney Rudman, Secretary; Mrs.
Leon Rittenberg, Treasurer; and Mrs.
Paul Getzoff, Membership Chairman.

VOL. I. NO.

APRIL. 1951

Official Publication of Brandeis University published 12 times a year (published twice in June and December, not published in January and
March) at Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham 54, Mass. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Boston, Mass.

NEWS ISSUE

HIE U EARISG OF THE GKEE.\—Muur,'e,i
ikiTrigan, '54, pins a shtimrocf,- on Richard
k'.ollins. '54. at the St. Patrick's Day Dance on
iMarcli 17. The .Mewman Club, a student organi-
iziition of Catholic stuilenis, sponsored the dance
\nliich was open to all students.

HUB PHILATELIST GIVES
HISTORICAL COLLECTION

The initial portion of the extensive and
valued stamp collection of Joseph B.
Abrams. prominent Boston attorney and
well-known conmiunitv leader, has been
turned over to Brandeis Universitv.

Comprising nearly 30 complete albums,
the collection contains several Civil War
items, one of which is valued at SK'OO.
Mr. Abrams. in presenting this portion of
his collection, explained that he considers
the gift of his philatelic material the most
valuable contribution which he could
make to Brandeis.

During the next five \ears, Mr. Abrams
intends to turn over to the University his
entire collection, valued at an estimated
.fl5.U(J0. To be used for display and re-
search purposes, the collection may later
be sold by the Universitv and converted
into the Joseph B. Abrams and Anna T.
Abrams Scholarship Fund.

A stamp collector for more than 20
years. Mr. Abrams numbers some 100
albums in his extensive collection.
Largely devoted to Americana, and espe-
cialK the Civil War period, the collection
will prove valuable as source material
for students of the period.

STUDENTS ORGANIZE

PROTESTANT CLUB

Th«' ISraiifleis I'niversitv Student
Christiun A-isoriation has taken it^i
place on campus alongside the llillel
and Newman Olubs, organized for
Jewish and Catholic students, re-
spectively. Officers of the newly-
formed Protestant group are Jean
Mecham, Keene, N. H., President;
Richard Smith, Wellesley, Mass.,
Vice President; Cora Grouse, Dix-
field. Me., Secretary ; and Esther
l.arkin, Chatham, Mass.. Treasurer.

BEVERAGE INDUSTRY LEADERS PLEDGE
TRADE ASSOCIATES CHAPTER SUPPORT

Three hundred of the country's top
leaders in the beverage industry met at
the Hotel Pierre on Januarv 16 and voted
unanimousl) to establish a permanent
chapter of the Brandeis Lniversity Asso-
ciates. The group contributed S7o.000 in
Associates memberships and special gifts.
and pledged the enrollment of at least
1,000 new members through the industry
before the end of the year. Joshua H.
Gollin of Schenley's made a stirring
appeal which resulted in the pledge.

One of the highlights of the affair, the
first major event conducted by a trade
division in New York City, was the
announcement of a special meeting on
April 17 of leaders in the industrv to
create a scholarship in memory of the late
Major Jack Kriendler. IISMC. co-founder
of the famed "Club 21." Proposal for the
memorial scholarship fund was made by
Major Kriendler s former business asso-
ciate. Charles "Jerry" Berns. and Major
Pete Barron. USMC. All were members
of the same high school fraternity.

Another high point of the meeting was
the presentation of a .S1200 check by
Julius Schepps. Dallas. Tex.. President of
National Wholesalers, for the enrollment
in the Associates of 12 members of his
family including grandchildren and great-
grandchildren.

Featured speakers at the unprecedented
meeting were George Alpert. President of
the Board of Trustees, and President
Abrani L. Sachar. Other speakers were
Joseph M. Linsey, Chairman of the
Brandeis Athletic Association: Benny
Friedman, Director of Athletics; and
Morris S. Shapiro, Chairman of the
Boards Committee on .Scholarships and
Aid. Tubie Resnik. executive vice presi-
dent of Calvert's, presided.

The committee in charge of the meet-
ing unanimously elected Harold L.
"Sonny" Renfield of the Renfield Import-
ers, Ltd., as the permanent chairman of

the Brandeis Universit) Associates for
the beverage industry. In his acceptance
address Mr. Renfield paid tribute to the
leadership of Mr. Linsey and emphasized
that the entire beverage industry will
support the University in all its endeavors
and especially in the Associates program.
The affair was under the co-chairman-
ship of Morris C. Alprin, Counsel of the
Greater New York Wholesale Liquor
Association; Charles A. Berns of 21
Brands; Victor A. Fischel of Seagram's:
John L. Leban, Schenley's; Jerome W.
Picker, From & Sichel; Sonny Renfield:
Tubie Resnik; and Hiram Srenco of
Erin Wine and Liquor Shop.

ISEW' YORK PHILANTHROPIST
GIVES ANTHROPOLOGY CHAIR

The endowment
of the Samuel Ru-
bin Chair in An-
thropology, named
for the donor, Sam-
uel Rubin of New
York City, has been
aiuiounced b) Presi-
dent Abram L.
Sachar. The crea-
tion of the Rubin Chair, the fifth to lie
established at the Lhiiversity. enables
Brandeis to expand its curriculum on a
permanent basis in the social studies.

Mr. Rubin is the President of Faberge.
the New \ ork perfume firm, and is a
widely known philanthropist. He is one
of the original founders of the New York
University Bellevue Medical Center,
served as cosmetic industrx chairman of
the March of Dimes (.am|)ai'zn for several
vears. and has held a similar post for the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
Appeal. He has provided ijenerous sup-
port for Sydenhani Hospital, and for the
Institute for Research in Psychotherapy.

Samiii-l Hahin

•^m. -_.

.AT THE FIRST As^.MJAL DINNER of the Neiv York Men's Apparel and Allied Trades on helndi
of the Linicersily. 200 men were present. Left to right are Ralph M. Shall. Chairman of the Murcli /i
affair; Ma.x Lerner. I'nijessor of American (Virilization, gues! speaker; Isidore S. hnmcrnuiii.
Brandeis Lniversity Chairman for retailers: and If. I'. Cuhen. Hnindeis tdrisiir for nuniiiituinrers.

NEWS ISSUE

2ND SEMESTER CURRICULUM EXPANDED
WITH DRAMA, RUSSIAN, GERMAN COURSES

Three new nieiii-
iiers have joined the
Brandeis University
faculty for the sec-
ond semester of
19 10-51.
^^fc__y '-'^^ Strasberg.

Hj^J ^H^^ ""^ ^^ Broadway's
^Km ^^HW^ leading stage direc-

Lce .Snasberg ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^

named Visiting Lecturer in Theatre Arts.
Mr. Strasberg is offering a course this
spring in "Introduction to Theatre Tech-
nique." Two courses in Drama are
currently being offered at the Universit>
and a field of concentration in the theatre
for next year is planned.

A co-founder of the Group Theatre, Mr.
Strasberg has staged such productions as
"Men in White". "All the Living".
"R.L.R.". "The Big Knife", and the recent
Broadway success "Countr) Girl. Known
for his brilliant innovations of stage tech-
nique, he is the editor of the qiiarterh.
Film, and a contrib-
utor to theatrical
publications. Last
fall he was a guest
lecturer in the "Sur-
vey of the American
Theatre" Course of-
fered by the Univer-
sity's Institute of
Adult Education.

The University's first course in Russian
is being conducted by John Codman
Fiske. The concentrated course offers
Brandeis students intensive instruction in
the Russian language. Mr. Fiske is a
graduate of Harvard University, where he
earned his A.B.. and Colundsia I niversity.
where he received his Masters degree.

Mr. Fiske has held a fellowship at the
Russian Research Center at Harvard since
194o and is currently doing research there
on Soviet Criticism. He is also a member
of the Visiting Conmiittee on Modern
Languages and Literature at Coe College
in Cedar Rapids. Iowa, where he was an
instructor in the French. Spanish. Latin

John C. FisKe

and Russian lan-
guage from 1941 to
1943.

Harry Zohn also
joins the faculty to
teach German lan-
guage and liter-
ature. He is co-
editor of the recent-
ly published "Wie

sie es Sehen " and is currenth translating
some of the works of Stefan Zweig.
Continuing his teaching of advanced Ger-
man at Harvard, he devotes himself to
a more enlightened understanding of
German literature and culture.

MORTOIS WEINRESS LEADS
CHICAGO ASSOCIATES

The rapid rise of
Brandeis L niversity
to its present status
is due in no small
measure to the dili-
gent and unceasing
efforts of its devoted
friends in every com-
munity throughout
the country. Typical
of these loyal pioneers is Morton Wein-
ress. spearhead of the Chicago Chapter of
the Brandeis Associates.

A busv executive and mendier of the
Stock Exchange. Mr. Weinress has been
identified with many Jewish and com-
unal activities for over a quarter of a
century. In 19.50 he served as an overall
Associated Chairman in charge of Invest-
ment and Securities Division. Finance
Division and Banks Division of the
Combined Jewish Appeal.

The ke\ organizer and presiding officer
of the recent Chicago meeting at which
200 communit\ leaders assembled and
pledged $163.600, Mr. Weinress is now
devoting his efforts toward putting the
Chicago Chapter on a firm and ])ermanent
footing.

Mnrh'ii It cinres.s

THE EHRLICH FAM-
ILY of Springfield, Moss.,
has established two sec-
tions in the Brandeis
Library to pay tribute to
jriends. Left to right are
Arthur J. Ehrlich, his
lather. Judge Harry Ehr-
lich. and his uncle.
Robert Ehrlich.

NOTES ON THE *

National Women's Committee

A permanent constitution was adopted by
the Baltimore Chapter at its first annual
meeting held in January at the Phoenix
Club. Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn was the
guest speaker. Officers elected include |
Mrs. I. E. Rosenbloom. President: Mrs.
1. B. Terrell. Vice President: Mrs. Paul
Cordish. Recording .Secretary: Mrs.
Fabian H. Kolker. Corresponding Sec-
retary: Mrs. Abraham Mahr. and Mrs.
Kennard Yaffe. Financial Secretaries: and
Mrs. Michael Offit. Treasurer.

At its charter inenibership meeting in
December, the Queens, N. Y., Chapter
enrolled 100 new members. Officers
Pro Tem of the newl.v-organized Chap-
ter are Mrs. Irving Kahn, Chairman;
Mrs. Ted Ricken, Co-Chairnian ; Mrs.
IVathan Seltzer, Treasurer; Mrs. Wil-
liam Adelman, Secretary; Mrs. Her-
bert Wartel, Secretary; Mrs. Seymour
Karger, Publicity; and Mrs. Leo Brown,
Program Chairman.

Brandeis Director of Student Personnel
Clharles Duhig was guest speaker at the
inendjership tea in .January of the New
Bedford. Mass.. Chapter. The enrollment
of 50 new members was announced. Re-
cently elected officers are Mrs. Harry
Zeitz. President; Mrs. Joseph Jaslow,
Vice President and Membership Chair-
man; Mrs. Leon Cooperstein, Vice Chair-
man; Mrs. Jacob Genesky. Secretarv; and
Mrs. Harry Silverman. Treasurer.

Among new chapters to join the
National Women's Committee are the
following: Larchmont, N. Y., Mrs. Ray-
mond W. Ehrenberg, Chairman Pro
Tem ; Essex County, N. J., Mrs. Louis
E. Frankel and Mrs. Joachim Prinz,
Chairmen Pro Tem; New London,
Conn., Mrs. Isser Gruskin, President
Pro Tem; Lexington, Ky., Mrs. Milton
Baer, Chairman Pro Tem; and Haver-
hill, Mass., Mrs. Abraham Margolis
Chairman Pro Tem.

Board President George Alpert discussed
the latest developments of the LIniversity
at a meeting of Canton. O.. women on
P'ebruar) 12. Canton Chapter Head Mrs.
Paul Heller presided at the luncheon.
Mrs. Ernest H. Cohen was chairman of
the meeting.

The Worcester, Mass., Chapter's mem-
bership campaign, under the chairman-
ship of Mrs. Edward Budnilz, Mrs.
David Gorman, and Mrs. David L.
Michelson was highlighted by a local
radio interview with Mrs. Joseph Gold-
berg, President. The December cam-
paign added over 100 new members to
the Chapter.

Among Chapters which were organized
less than a year ago and which have been
increasing their membership figures rap-
idly is Detroit, which now has nearly
1,000 members. President of the Detroit
Chapter is Mrs. Oscar Zemon.

NEWS ISSUE

sCHWEITZERS UNDERWRITE
TEACHING FELLOWSHIP

YEAR-OLD CINCINNATI WOMEN'S CHAPTER
DOUBLES MEMBERSHIP, GIVES $10,000

Kurt mill Hoitnit.te SchiiritziT

A teaching fellowship in American
Civilization has been underwritten by
Kurt and Hortense Schweitzer of Okla-
loma City, Okla.. it has been announced
3y President Abrani L. Sachar.

Mr. Schweitzer is Vice President and
General Manager of the Folding Carrier
Corporation in Oklahoma City. He came
o this country in 1926 to establish a
permanent home and launch a business
areer. He is active in the fields of in-
vestment, realty and oil production. Mrs.
Schweitzer, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Kahn. is Vice President of the Sis-
terhood of Temple B'Nai Israel in Okla-
homa City.

The Schweitzer Fellowship is one of

number of grants which have been
established to enable gifted graduate stu-
dents to continue their specialized studies
and at the same time provide capable
instructors in the undergraduate school.

CiyCIVNATI IfO\IE\

iirtive in the affairs of
the one-year-old Chapter
are. left to right. Mrs.
George W. Rosenthal .
Mrs. Dana N. Cohen,
and Mrs. Philip Meyers,
Founder and President
of the Chapter.

CITY OF BOSTON HONORS
WOMEN'S BOARD MEMBER

Miss Fanny Golclslrin, West End
Branch Librarian of the Boston Pul>-
lic Library and a member of the
National Board of the Women's
Committee, was recently awarded a
citation by the City of Boston for
her ''outstanding contributions to
the public service." Singled out as
"the Library lady of the year," Miss
Goldstein was one of six municipal
employees to receive public tribute
for her work and interest in better-
ing the social and civic welfare of
the citv.

ANNUAL ST. LOUIS MEETING REPORTS

WOMEN NEARING 1000 ENROLLMENT

Contributions to the I'uiversity total-
ling almost $10,000 and a doubled mem-
bership have been announced bv the Cin-
cinnati Chapter of the Women's Commit-
tee which now tmmbers 635 Annual and
74 Life members.

The stimulus to the young chapter's
growth was given by President Abram L.
Sachar when he addressed a membership
drive luncheon in Cincinnati last fall. On
January 26. Mrs. Harry L. Michaels, Na-
tional President of the Women's Commit-
tee, was guest speaker at a Life Member-
ship luncheon.

Officers of the Chapter are Mrs. Philip
Meyers. President; Mrs. Edward Kuhn.
Vice President: Mrs. Howard UUman.
Treasurer: Mrs. Sol Luckman and Mrs.
Ben Bernstein. Secretaries: Mrs. Robert
Goldman. Membership Chairman: Mrs.
J. J. Smith. Jr.. Publicity: and Mrs.
Edward Kuhn, Book Fund.

An impressive record of membership
figures has been reached by the St. Louis
Chapter of the National Women's Com-
mittee which has enrolled 96.5 members,
including 65 Life Members. Announce-
ment of the membership figures was made
at the Second Annual Meeting of the
group by Mrs. Morris M. Sachar. St.
Louis Chapter President.

Further announcements disclosed that
more than $11,000 had been transmitted
to the National organization for the
University. Of this amount $10,000 was
comprised of dues and the remainder of
Book Fund contributions. Guest speaker
at the annual affair was President Abram
L. Sachar.

St. Louis Chapter officers elected at the
meeting include the following: Mrs.
Morris M. Sachar, President : Mrs. Sam
("ohen, Mrs. Samuel F'leischman. and Mrs.
Max C. Jackman. Vice Presidents: Mrs.
Maurice Schweitzer. Financial Secretary;
Mrs. Joseph Oxenhandler, Recording Sec-
retary: Mrs. Sidney Strauss. Correspond-
ing Secretary; Mrs. Oscar Brand. Treas-
urer: Mrs. Harry E. Lieberman. Book
Fund Chairman: Mrs. Alviii Barnett.
Hospitality Chairman.

I'RE.^IOEM OF THF: BO I HI) George Alpert, second jrom right, visited the If est Caa.st luslaiuiuh
and was honored at a San Francisco luncheon on March 9 sponsored hy Benjamin H. Suig, left.
If ith Mr. Sicig and Mr. Ilpcrl are Miss Lnlie Goldstein oj .San Francisco nho recently endowed the
Alexander Goldstein Teaching Felhmship in the Social Sciences at the ( niversity in honor oj her
late hrother. anil lilolph I llman. liuslon. Chairman oi the Creative Arts Center Committee.

NEWS ISSUE

JAMES HENRY YALEM COMMEMORATED BY
ESTABLISHMENT OF ECONOMICS CHAIR

James

\ersitv
Mr.'

The James Heii-
r\ Yalem Chair in
Economics has been
established at Bran-
d e i s through the
beneficence of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles
Yalem of Clayton.
Mo., who presented
a gift to the Uni-
memory of their late son.
Yalem is President of the Aetna
Finance Company, a member of the
Board and Director of the Jewish Federa-
tion of St. Louis, the Shaare Emeth Con-
gregation, and of the Children's Research
Foundation. Mrs. Yalem. niece of the
Detroit philanthropist and civic leader
David Brown, is also active in local
philanthropic and cultural endeavors.

James Henry Yalem. for whom the
new Economics Chair is named, was a
graduate of Culver Military Academy and
enlisted in the Air Force in 1943. He
lost his life during a training program in
1944 at the age of 20. He is survived by
his parents, his brother. Richard Lewis,
and his sister. Carolyn Jane Kutten.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yalem

BRANDEIS GAINS SUPPORT
AT CHATTANOOGA MEETING

In its first campaign to enlist support
for Brandeis. the Chattanooga. Tenn.,
community sponsored a dinner recently
at which Trustees President George Al-
pert was the featured speaker. Presiding
at the meeting were Harr\ Miller and
Manuel Russ. co-chairmen of the Chatta-
nooga Chapter of the Brandeis Associates.

Mr. Miller has recently re-entered the
business world after 12 years of retire-
ment in which he devoted himself to
community service exclusively. Mr. Russ.
a prominent businessman, is also highly
esteemed among Chattanoogans for his
long record of public-spirited service.

HAROLD COHN GIVES PAINTING
Harold Cohn, Detroit artist, has given
one of his paintings, "Wind and
Sand", to the L'niversitv. The winner
of six prizes at the Detroit Institute
of Art, Mr. Cohn is represented in
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
the Detroit Museum, and private
collections in Detroit.

COPLAND AND EINSTEIN JOIN
MUSIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Composer Aaron Copland and musi-
cologist Alfred Einstein have accepted ap-
pointments to the Educational Policies
Advisory Committee on Music, President
Abram L. Sachar has announced. Mr.
Copland, well known for his concert,
film and ballet theatre scores, was a guest
lecturer at the Institute of Adult Educa-
tion last fall. He is Director of the Kous-
sevitzk\ Music Foundation, the Edward
MacDowell Association, and a member of
the League of Composers. Last month he
was appointed to the Charles Elliot Norton
Chair in Poetry at Harvard.

Dr. Einstein, music historian, author
and critic, has been on the Smith College
nmsic faculty since 1931. He is a mem-
ber ol the American Musicological SocietN
and of the Music Library Association.

Mr. Copland and Dr. Einstein join
Leonard Bernstein on the committee which
is headed by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. Con-
ductor Emeritus of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra and Director of the Berkshire
Music Festival.

ROSE SCHLOW AWARD CRE.^TED
^lllld^ pro\iding for the ereali«»ii
of the Rose Schlow Annual Av»ard
have been donated by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Schlow of Stale College, Pa.,
and Mrs. A. Leopold of Philadelphia.
The award is in memory of the late
Mrs. Rose Schlow, mother of Mr.
.Schlow and Mrs. Leopold.

To be preseiil4'fl at the Annual
Convocation Exercises in June, the
awaril will be gi\eii to a student out-
standing for his good citizenship and
contributions to the welfare of the
student body. A faculty committee
will be designated to screen the
award candidates.

GUEST SPEAKER at the Queens, N. Y .,
Women's Committee Chapter meeting was Dr.
Luduig Lewisohn, Professor of Comparative
Literature. He is shown with Mrs. Irring Kahn,
President of the Chapter.

ATLANTA SOMEN'S MEETING
FEATURES ANNUAL ELECTIONS

(Capitalizing on the prominence and
athletic prowess of their guest, Head
Coach Benny Friedman, the active and
growing Atlanta Chapter of the Women's
Conmiittee last month received consider-
able attention in the community with
their annual meeting on January 29.

Close to 200 women attended the des-
sert tea meeting, and a number of Atlanta
high school athletes were also on hand
to hear Coach Friedman talk about the
Brandeis sports program. Decorations
which were arranged by Mrs. David L.
Slann. Board Member, featured miniature
footballs and goal posts on all tables.

Highlighting the meeting was the re-
election of Mrs. Sidney Q. Janus as Presi-
dent. Vice Presidents in charge of mem-
bership Mrs. Harold Marcus and Mrs.
Louis Smith ex])ressed the hope that total
chapter membership would increase to
1.000. Mrs. Joseph Pintchuk. Treasurer,
reported that the Chapter s contribution to
the National organization had reached
almost .SIO.OOO.

COLUMBUS, O.. El\-
ROLLME.\T in the local
If' omen 's Committee
Chapter has soared to
5.iiS members, including
h3 Life Members, it was
announced at the Char-
ter Membership Meeting
on January 26. Left to
right are the Chapter's
officers: (front) Mrs.
Theodore Schlonsky .
Membership; Mrs. II-
jred Kobacker. Presidrnl
and .'\ational Boa id
Member; (rear) Mrs.
Harry Kollus and Mrs.
Louis .Mark, Board .Mem-
bers; and Mrs. Herbert
Fenburr. I ice Chnirmirn
of the Book Fund.

NEWS ISSUE

PITTSBURGH LEADERS

SUPPORT BRANDEIS

More than 150 community leaders of
Pittsburgh, Pa., gathered at the Schenley
Hotel recently at an Associates dinner
and heard the Brandeis concept outlined
and interpreted. Pittsburgh Committee
Chairman Leonard Krieger who presided
at the meeting announced that $34,000
was pledged, bringing the community's
total pledges to Brandeis close to $70,000.

Among the speakers at the meeting was
Dr. Solomon Freehof who has donated a
library of Judaica and philosophy to the
Brandeis Library. The collection con-
tains many volumes now out of print and
others printed in Europe. Dr. Freehof
is Rabbi at Rodef Shalom Temple.

FIRST BRANDEIS POPS NIGHT SET FOR
JUNE 23 IN BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL

I' ORMV LATINO
FLANS for Bran-
deis University Fops
Night are, left to
right, Sidney L.
K are. Program
Committee Chair-
man of the Greater
Boston Chapter of
the Brandeis Asso-
ciates ; Hyman Co-
hen. Chapter Presi-
dent; Mark If^er-
man. Chairman of
the Frientls of the
School of Music:
and H. Leon Shar-
mat. mem her of the
Steering Committee
of the Boston Asso-
ciates.

BRANDEIS ONE OE EIGHT UNIVERSITIES
TO RECEIVE HAY DEN FOUNDATION GRANTS

The establishment by the Charles Hay-
den Foundation of ten scholarship grants

ALPHA EPSILON PHI AIDS

STUDENT COUNSELLING

Proceeds of the Annual liall of
the New York Graduate Association
of Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority were
presented to Brandeis University to
be used for its Student Counselling
Service.

Officers of the Alpha Epsilon F'hi
New York Graduate Association are
Mrs. Olga Goodman, Chairman of
the Dance; Mrs. Joseph Sheldon,
Project Chairman ; and Mrs. Vera
Sundelsoii and Mrs. Sid Cantor,
Dance Committee.

to aid deserving male students has been
announced by President Abram L. Sachar.

J. Willard Hayden. President of the
Foundation, stated in a letter to President
Sachar that the Foundation will make the
scholarship grants available to Brandeis
for the coming academic vear. Brandeis
will join the eight educational institutions
now receiving Hayden Foundation grants
including New York Universitv. Colum-
bia, Fordham, Stevens, Boston I niversity,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Northeastern.

Created in 1937 by Charles Hayden.
the Foundation assists young men
through financial grants. It also has
offered scholarship aid through a limited
number of educational institutions.

STUDENTS MEET DIFLUMAT James G. McDonald, first United Stales Ambassador to Israel, ivho
recently resigned from his post. Shown with him during his recent visit to the campus are Vera
Rabinek, '54, Baltimore, Md., ivhose parents are nou in Israel: anil \adar Safran. '.5t. one of the
(^nii'ersity's two Israeli students.

The Greater Boston Chapter of the
Brandeis Lfniversity Associates in con-
junction with the Friends of the School
of Music will sponsor the first Brandeis
University Pops Night on June 23. Hyman
Cohen. President of the Chapter, has an-
nounced. Adolph Lillman. one of Bran-
deis' leading benefactors and Chairman
of the (ireative Arts Center Committee.
was named honorary chairman for the
musical event to be held in Boston's
Symphony Hall.

The decision to sponsor the affair was
unanimously endorsed at a meeting of the
program committee for the Boston Chap-
ter of the Associates with representatives
of the Friends of the School of Music.
Co-chairmen of the Pops Night Commit-
tee are Mark Werman, Chairman of the
Friends of the School of Music and H.
Leon Sharmat. a mendaer of the Steering
Committee of the Boston Associates.

The Greater Boston Associates Chapter
will also sponsor a football smoker on
September 2.5 prior to the clash with the
University of New Hampshire. Brandeis"
first varsity game.

GLADYS K. STER1\ ISAMED
ASSOCIATES DIRECTOR

Gladys K. Stern
has been appointed
Director of the
Brandeis University
Associates, it has
been an n o u n c e d .
Mrs. Stern joined
the Brandeis staff
last year as a Field
Representative of
the Office of Development and Resources.

In her new post Mrs. Stern will service
the activities of the various Brandeis
llniversity Associates chapters throughout
the nation. Milton Kahn, Boston philan-
thropist and businessman, is National
Chairman of the Associates.

Mrs. Stern

NEWS ISSUE

DETROIT PHILANTHROPIST UNDERWRITES
RICHARD COHN CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

SRA.\DEIS DIRECTOR OF I'iBLlC AF-
FAIRS Emanuel Gilbert, lejt. confers iiith
Norman Rabb, Secretary of the Brandeis Board
ol Trustees and Chairman oj the Board Pub-
licity Committee. Mr. Gilbert succeeds Clar-
ence Q. Berger icho was recently appointed
Executive Assistant to President Sachar.

HASKELL EPSTEIIS HONORED
BY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

The establishment of the Haskell
Epstein Memorial Scholarship, to be
awarded annually to a graduate of the
Newburgh Free Academy, N. Y., has
been announced by Morris S. Shapiro,
Chairman of the Board Committee on
Scholarships and Aid.

An active civic leader until his death
in 1930. Mr. Epstein was the owner of the
Newburgh Up-To-Date Company. Mr.
Epstein is survived by his widow Mrs.
Pearl Epstein, and two children. Mrs.
Norman S. Rabb of Boston and Mrs.
Philip Zimet of New York City. His son-
in-law, Mr. Rabb, is Secretary of the
Brandeis Board of Trustees.

The Scholarship was awarded for the
current year to Sheldon Shatz. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Shatz of Newburgh.

Through the generosit) of the Richard
S. Cohn Foundation of Michigan, an
additional laboratory has been added in
the William H. Sydeman Building.

To be designated as the Richard Cohn
Chemistry Laboratory in honor of the
retired Detroit philanthropist, the new-
unit will contain equipment for organic
and physical chemistry. Modern facilities
will be provided for undergraduate in-
struction in organic chemistry and for
advanced work in the chemical sciences.

Long active in philanthropic and civic
affairs. Mr. Cohn served as President of
the Telephone Directory Advertising
Company of Michigan, until his retire-
ment. He was one of the organizers ol
the Rotary Club and a charter member of
the Adcraft Club of Detroit.

The gift was directed to Brandeis by
Nate S. Shapero. President of the Cun-
ningham Drug Stores. Inc.. of Detroit, one
of the Trustees of the Cohn Foundation.

GEORGE LEWIS LEADS
PORTLAND ASSOCIATES

In Portland, Me.,
George I. Lewis
accepted leadership
of the local Associ-
ates program at a
meeting of more
than 40 prominent
people in his home.
Active in the plans
for the meeting were Sidney Wernick.
President of the Portland Federation:
Israel Bernstein, and Harold Nelson,
widely known in Portland communal
affairs. Milton Kahn. National Chairman
of the Associates, and Clarence Q. Berger.
Executive Assistant to President Sachar.
were guest speakers.

IN LOS ANGELES last month Brandeis Board President George Alpert met with three outstdiidmii
couples who have established .scholarship funds at Brandeis. Left to right are Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Press (Morris and Mary Press Scholarship) ; Jay Kasler; Mr. Alpert; Mrs. Kasler (Jay and Marie
Kasler Foundation Scholarship) : and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Shane (John and Joan Shane Trust Fund
Scholarship).

ATLANTA COUPLE

CREATES SCHOLARSHIP

RECIPIENT OF THE BEN CAVALIER
SCHOLARSHIP, George Nemetz. ',54, Clifjside
Park. N. J., gets a word oj advice from Coach
Benny Friedman during spring football training.
Nemetz starred in both the freshman football
and basketball intercollegiate programs.

A recent addition to the University "s
scholarship funds is the Ben Cavalier
Scholarship Fund established by Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Cavalier of Atlanta, Ga., in
the name of their 5-year-old son Benjamin
who is a victim of infantile paralysis.

In presenting the fund to the Llniver-
sity Mr. Cavalier wrote: "I desire that
my pledge be set up ... to assist other
boys who are able to do the things which
[my son] cannot. The onlv stipulation
is that the recipient of each annual award
be a bov of any faith, who meets a proper
standard of scholarship, athletic ability,
and character. The Hebrew translation
of the name Benjamin is 'son of my right
arm." We hope that Brandeis will be a
strong right arm for all who need it. "

This year's recipient of the scholarship
is George M. Nemetz. "54. of Cliffside
Park. N. J.

SPRING DANCE CLIMAXES
YOUNG LEAGUE ACTIVITY

The Young League for Brandeis Lhii-
versity, a year-old organization comprised
of young executives and professionals in
New York City, will hold its first major
event of the year on behalf of the Uni-
versity on May 19 in the form of a Spring
Dance at the Ryewood Country Club in
Westchester.

The Young Leagues objective is the
purchase of scientific equipment for the
University. The group was formally
organized when two of its founding mem-
bers. Carl Rice and Bernard Grossman
of New York, heard President Abram L.
Sachar and Board President George
Alpert introduce the "Brandeis Story."

Young League officers are Carl Rice,
President: Bernard Grossman. Vice Pres-
ident; Arnold Gotthilf, Treasurer: and
Terrey Harwood, Recording Secretary.

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FFICIAL PUBLICATION

OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

contents

looking ahead

Brandeis adds to Its academic staff 2

buildings going up 4

the varsity line-up

a visit from Israel 6

meet the freshmen 7

the third annual convocation ceremonies

on the distaff side 8

convocation highlights 10

Vol. II, No. 2 Sept. 15, 1951

Official Publication of Bran-
deis University published 10
times during the year (twice
in September and June;
once in October, December,
January, March, April and
July) at Brandeis University,
415 South Street, Waltham
54, Mass. Entered as second
class matter at the Post
Office in Boston, Mass.

the republic of learning 12

we hereby dedicate 14

men at work

Ina Curelop, Edi/or

Art work and cover design:
Donis Asnin

Campus photographs:
Ralph Norman

campus concerts 17

student life 18

Guggenheim recipients 20

On the cover: Arriving freshmen catch their first glimpse of the University's famous Castle.

looking ahead

Week-long ceremonies and festivities attending the Third Annual Convoca-
tion Exercises on the Brandeis campus in mid-June signalized not only the close
of the academic year but also anticipated the opening of ihe University's
fourth year of functioning, the year which spans its growth from a hopeful
blueprint to a thriving center of learning.

With the admission of its fourth freshman class, the Class of '55, Brandeis
for the first time begins the academic year with a complete undergraduate
enrollment. The 250 freshmen who comprise the youngest class and transfer
students bring the student body total to nearly 700. To maintain its generous
financial aid program for students, the University this year has awarded
scholarships, grants-in-aid and loans to more than one-third of them.

More than 25 faculty members, including noted authorities and scholars In
many fields, have been added to preserve the established low ratio of ten
students to one instructor. The curriculum, too, has been augmented In every
area with 33 new courses and at least ten of these will be taught by faculty
members occupying the teaching chairs provided by benefactors.

In addition to these academic developments the University launches its
fourth year with several new physical facilities Including two women's dormi-
tories, an athletic training area and a playing field on which the games of the
University's first varsity sports season are being held this fall. Directors of the
sports program look forward to the completion of the Abraham Shapiro
Athletic Center for which ground was broken during Convocation week.

Those friends and supporters of the University who have made these great
strides possible will share a sense of deep gratification with University officials
next June when the first Brandeis degrees are conferred at the First
Commencement Exercises.

Leonard Bernitein
Professor of Music
and Director of the
School of the Creative Arts

Henry Steel* Commoger
Visiting Professor of
American Civilization

Rudolph Kayser
Assistant Professor
of Philosophy

Brandeis adds to

The faculty appointments for the academic year 1951-52
conform to the high standards established in the past three
years. The young composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein
joins the Brandeis faculty as Professor of Music and Director
of the School of the Creative Arts. Since his conducting
debut In 1943, the young protege of the late Dr. Serge
Koussevitzky has been one of the leading figures in contem-
porary American music. Mr. Bernstein, who has conducted
the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the
New York City Symphony Orchestra, has also conducted at
Tanglewood, in Israel and in most of the major cities of the
United States. He has scored successes with his symphonies
jereiuicih and The Age of Anxiety and his ballets Fmicy Free and
On The Town. hHe offers the experience and vision necessary
to the creation of a strong curriculum in the arts.

Henry Steele Commager, for many years known as the
"distinguished Columbia University historian," is Visiting
Professor of American Civilization. He is co-author of
The Growth of the Ainericdn Republic with Samuel Eliot
Morison, and author of The American Mind and the monu-
mental work DoaiDients of American History. Though he has
a lengthy roster of books and articles to his credit. Professor
Commager says, "I am not primarily a writer, but a teacher.
That is what I like best and it's what I do best."

Louis Kronenberger, a participant in the 1949 Institute of
Adult Education is Visiting Lecturer In the Drama. The
esteemed Tin/e critic and associate editor Is a member of
the Authors League of America and drama critic of Toivn
and Country. Editor of several anthologies including An
Anthology of Light Verse, he is also represented in numer-
ous collections.

The composer Harold Shapero has been appointed as
Lecturer in Music. A graduate of Harvard University, he was
the recipient of several awards, among them two Guggen-
heim fellowships and a Fulbrlght grant for study In Rome.
His Symphony for Classical Orchestra was commissioned by the
Koussevitzky Foundation. The first faculty member In the
Fine Arts, Mitchell Siporin, brings to the post of Artist in
Residence his valuable talents and creative activities. Win-
ner of two Guggenheim and Prix de Rome fellowships, his
paintings are in major museums throughout the United States.

The eminent Judaica authority Simon Rawldowicz has been
named Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Philoso-
phy. Dr. Rawldowicz is the author of more than 35 volumes
dealing with phases of Jewish history and contemporary
Jewish problems. Formerly Chairman of the Hebrew Depart-
ment at the University of Leeds, England, he is Internationally

its academic staff

recognized as one of the outstanding figures in his field.
Wolf Leslau joins Professor Rawidowicz, Nahunn Glatzer and
Shiomo Marenof in a strong assembly of authorities on the
Near East. A specialist in Coptic, Arabic, Syrian and other
related languages and cultures. Dr. Leslau is Visiting Asso-
ciate Professor of Near Eastern Languages.

Brandeis Ihis year also welcomes Irving Fineman, author
and literary critic, who will be recalled for his works This
Pine Young A\a>i. The Fig-Tree Madnniia, Hear Ye Sons and
Doctor Addains. A graduate of M.I.T., he comes to the
Brandeis faculty from Bennington College. Rudolph Kayser,
philosopher and historian, Joins the University after serving
on the faculties of the Sorbonne, New School of Social
Research and blunter College. He has authored works on
Spinoza, Kant and Jehuda hialevi and for more than ten years
was editor-in-chief of Die Nei/e Riindschdii in Berlin.

The School cT Science expands with the addition of Sidney
Golden, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, who formerly
held a post at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1946
Dr. Golden was made a National Research Council Predoc-
toral Fellow in Chemistry and received the Presidential Cer-
tificate of Merit in 1948. Oscar Goldman joins the facultv as
Assistant Professor of Mathematics after serving on the fac-
ulty of hiarvard University. A frequent contributor to mathe-
matics journals both here and abroad, his extensive work on
the Riemann-Roch theorem on algebraic surfaces was recently
accepted for publication. Albert Kelner, a former Special
Research Fellow of the National Cancer Institute at hHarvard,
comes to Brandeis as Assistant Professor of Biology.
Dr. Kelner was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
where he conducted research at the Medical School.

With the appointment of Abraham Maslow as Associate
Professor of Psychology, Brandeis adds one of the nation's
leading clinical psychologists to the School of Social Sciences.
Dr. Maslow, formerly on the faculty of Brooklyn College,
Is co-author of Principles of Abnomud Psychology with Bela
Mittlemann and author of over 50 articles, many of which
have been translated into foreign languages. James Klee
comes to Brandeis as Lecturer in Psychology from the Univer-
sity of Nebraska. During the last seven years he has combined
teaching with conducting research. Dr. Klee is the author
of Problems of Selective Behavior and Is a regular contributor
to psychology Journals. Lewis A. Coser joins the University
as Lecturer In the Social Sciences. Formerly on the faculty
of Columbia University, his extensive writings cover the
fields of international politics, sociology and literature.

Simon Rawidowici

Professor of Hebrew

Literature and

Jewish Philosophy

Irving Fineman

Lecturer in

Literature

Mitchell Siporin

Artist in

Residence

buildings going up

One of the University's most pressing problems, intensive growth, is being
solved by the steady progress on the physical expansion program adopted in
the spring of 1950. In the year and a half since the inception of construction,
the University has announced the completion of Ridgewood Quadrangle, a
five-unit men's residence, William H. Sydeman hiall, a classroom building, and
the Abraham Marcus Playing Field. Coinciding with the opening of the fourth
academic year, the first two of five structures to form another quadrangle
similar to Ridgewood are being readied on the site of the huge excavations
which were the only evidences of building activity when students and faculty
left the campus for the summer recess.

These first buildings of the projected quadrangle, temporarily to be named
hHamilton, the street on which it faces, are modern women's dormitories now
undergoing finishing touches. Residents fortunate enough to be housed there
will find its facilities more than adequate. Each of the buildings contains a
step-down lounge, proctor's suite, kitchenette, recreation room and music
room. The basements of the three-story dormitories provide wardrobe storage
and trunk rooms for the 144 women who will occupy the 66 double and 12
single rooms. The architect's sketch of the Quadrangle is reproduced below.

As work on the dormitories goes into the final stages the foundation for a
two-story student facilities building is being laid. The entire lower floor will
be a modern dining hall, while on the floor above student organizations will
find ample elbow-room for conducting their business and social affairs. Con-
struction of this third phase of hiamilton Quadrangle will begin as soon as work
is completed on the dormitories which have priority over any other building.
The finished quadrangle, to be comprised of these buildings and three more
still in the blueprint stage, will enclose a fresh-water pond encircled by a
broad walk. Symbolizing the rapid growth of the University, these latest
developments are the tangible results of the vision and foresight of the
Brandeis founders.

Mrs. Abraham Marcus,
Baltimore, at plaque
honoring her late hus-
band (top). Breaking
ground for Abraham
Shapiro Athletic Cen-
ter (below) are Mau-
rice J. Tobin, Secretary
of Labor and Honorary
Chairman of Shapiro
Committee;
Berkowitz,
and Jacob
University

Memorial
Abe W.
Chairman
Shapiro,
Trustee.

the varsity line-up

There's an optimistic atmosphere on the
campus as the time draws near for the Univer-
sity's debut in varsity athletic competition. The
Judges will set forth on the afternoon of Sep-
tember 29 at the Brandeis stadium against the
best in small college football — the University
of New hiampshire Wildcats.

Benny Friedman, an Ail-American if there
ever was one, is the guiding spirit, hie has sur-
rounded himself with a young and capable staff
of assistants who are molding a speedy aggre-
gation that has five home games and three
tilts on the road.

After the New hiampshire opener the
Judges play American International, hlofstra,
Bradley, Wayne, Champlain, Rider and
Arnold. It's an ambitious schedule but one
which Sid Goldfader, one of the best backs in
New England, and his cohorts can handle com-
petently. Freshmen will be available for varsity
competition under the N.C.A.A. ruling to sup-
ply the reserve strength needed in today's
platoon-system football.

Basketball comes on the scene later with a
strong 20-game slate Including all the local
powerhouses as well as several eastern and
midwest quintets. Coach Harry Stein has high
hopes of continuing on the win side where the
Judges finished up last season. In the spring,
baseball will also have a full slate under the
supervision of Walt Mahoney.

But for now, strengthen your vocal cords and
get ready to root the Judges home to victory
against New Hampshire's potent gridmen.

David Ben-Gurion, Is-
raeli Prime Minister
(seated, riglit) witli
Dr. Sachar and Trustees
(standing, left to right)
Jacob Shapiro, Dudley
Kimball, Meyer Jaffe,
Joseph F. Ford, Board
Chairman George
Alpert and Morris
S. Shapiro.

a visit from Israel

"We are a small people and we will always
remain so. Economically and militarily we will
never compare, nor have the ambition to com-
pare, with the great and mighty on the earth.
. . . Our ambition is to be second to none in
the way of humanity, in the way of culture, in
the way of science, in the way of art. . . ."

In a voice tense with emotion, the Prime
Minister of the State of Israel, David Ben-
Gurion, spoke these words in an eventful mes-
sage delivered at a student convocation one
month previous to the Third Annual Convoca-
tion. Nearly 3,000 students from New England
colleges journeyed to the campus to hear the
white-haired "father of Israeli independence."

When the Prime Minister appeared on the
platform in the van of a full-dress academic
procession, he drew a standing ovation from
the crowd which had been gathering in the
Library Triangle for two hours before his
arrival. Addressing his youthful listeners as "my
fellow students," the Prime Minister described

the task of the Jewish people in Israel as a
"Maase B'reshit" — a work of creation. The
establishment of Israel, he said, proves again
"the supremacy of the spirit of man over sheer
physical forces. ... It was that belief In the
spiritual superiority of man which made our
people the eternal people."

His voice carrying to the farthest corners of
the grassy Triangle, the Israeli Chief of State
told the gathering that the immediate task fac-
ing Israel is the rebuilding of the ancient home-
land and the rescue of "our oppressed broth-
ers" in other lands. But the ultimate test of the
new nation, he declared, will be "the test of
the spirit. . . . We came back not merely to
have our own government, our own economy,
our own army, our own independence. We
came back with a great human purpose. We
believe that we can show the world how people
can live without competition, without hatred in
a land where the ruling principle is brotherhood
and cooperation."

meet the freshmen

by C. Ruggles Smith

Director of Admissions

Once again the fall campus is
alive with returning students as
the fourth freshman class at Bran-
deis joins in the excitement of
registration and programming.
But the active discussions of col-
lege curricula are mixed with
talk of graduate schools and
permanent Jobs, for this year
Brandeis University will graduate
its first senior class.

Like their predecessors, the
250 members of the Class of '55
bring to Brandeis a mosaic of
cultures not only of this country

but of many others. More than two-thirds of the class come from areas
outside of Massachusetts. They hail from 15 states and seven foreign
nations, Including England, Canada, Egypt and France. A freshman from
the Netherlands West Indies reports that Brandeis is well known In his city
of Curacao. All totalled, the 700 undergraduates at Brandeis this year
are drawn from 30 states and eleven countries.

To some of these freshmen the question of their future careers is a
hazy one, still to be determined; others have had valuable experience in
their chosen fields. From New York comes a budding scientist with several
summers' study In cancer research behind her at the Jackson Memorial
Laboratory; a former communications chief In the United States Air Force
and executive in an advertising agency from hHaverhill, Mass.; from Lon-
don, England, a former fighter in the hiaganah, worker in DP camps and
co-founder of a collective settlement in Israel.

WHh the Inception of each new class, Brandeis' association with other
colleges and universities grows steadily stronger. This year 30 transfer
students were enrolled with advanced standing. The University now has
representatives from such colleges as hiarvard. Bates, University of Chi-
cago and hiebrew University in Jerusalem. From Boston University comes a
Japanese girl, formerly an Interpreter with the United States Army of
Occupation during World War II, and from Hiram College, Ohio, a stu-
dent from the South African Negro Republic of Liberia, who has been a
secretary to the Liberian delegation in the UN.

As Brandeis enters its fourth year, the students' role in maintaining Its
high reputation grows in importance. To those not associated with the
University the proof of the pudding will be in the eating, and Brandeis'
name will be measured only by Its graduates. Brandeis welcomes the mem-
bers of the Class of '55 as its future representatives with faith and assur-
ance in their success.

(

on the

On a recent occasion President Sachar
was asked by an admiring colleague how his
fledgling university could have achieved the
physical development and academic stature
it has with no endowments, no alumni, and
only a three-year-old undergraduate program.
"That's easy," Dr. Sachar replied, "Cherchez
la jeinme." But continuing less facetiously he
described the role of the National Women's
Committee as one of the most dynamic forces
In the advancement of the University.

Demonstrating how effective a group it
Is, the Women's Committee sent close to 200
delegates from 44 of the 71 chapters to the
Brandeis campus for a five-day conclave to
evaluate the past year's achievements and to
step up the program for the coming year. It
was the third time the women had met for
their Annual Conference, the first time that
they gathered on the Brandeis campus.

Delegates to the Third Annual Conference of the National
Wonnen's Committee held their sessions on the shaded
lawns of the Smith Hall Quadrangle. Above, the women

hold a buffet lunch and below, delegates give their
attention to the speaker in &n afternoon discussion meeting.
The ivied turrets of the Castle are in the background.

distaff side

Mrs. Irving Abrams
National President

The tone of the Conference was set at the
opening banquet on the night of the Third
Annual Convocation with an address by Mrs.
Vera Micheles Dean, distinguished authority
on international affairs and Research Director
of the Foreign Policy Association.

To maintain the same level of cogent
analysis, faculty members Irving Fine, Robert
Thornton, Ludwig Lewisohn and Max Lerner
discussed "Education for Youth in the World
Today." Distilling their views on the arts, the
sciences, the humanities and the social
sciences for capsule presentation, the four
concurred on one basic point: that every
phase of enlightenment and culture should be
exposed to the student during his educative
process to foster his development as a whole
Individual. hHow deeply the faculty's teaching
formula penetrates was substantiated later in
talks by students who transmitted a sense of

purpose and a mature grasp of problems, ab-
stract or concrete.

Through the entire Conference coursed a
powerful undercurrent of responsibility, pride
and rededication. It surged to the surface
when Mrs. hHarry L. Michaels, founder and
three-time president, was paid tribute on her
retirement with a specially inscribed plaque
and unanimous election to the hlonorary Vice
Presidency. It expressed itself in the presenta-
tion to Dr. Sachar of chapter gifts totalling
$172,000, equivalent to the normal income
of a $4,000,000 endowment; or, again. In the
installation of the newly elected officers.

Declared the current presidential incum-
bent, Mrs. Irving Abrams of Boston, "With
Brandels the dramatic success it is, it's small
wonder that the Women's Committee con-
tinues to capture the hearts and Imaginations
of thousands of women."

President Sachar and Professor Lerner enioy the solicitude of
Conference Chairnnan Mrs. Joseph Schneider of Boston be-
fore the dinner meeting featuring a faculty symposium.

Mrs. Irving Abrams, National President, Susan Brandeis, Honor-
ary President, and Mrs. Harry L. Michaels, retiring President,
blow out the candles on birthday cake.

convocation highlights

Marching up to the platform
(above) in the academic pro-
cession Is Dr. Robert Moynard
Hutchlns, left, Associate Direc-
tor of the Ford Foundation,
former President and Chancel-
lor of the University of Chi-
cago, and featured speaker at
the Convocation Exercises. He
Is accompanied by Dr. John J.
Desmond, Jr., Commissioner of
Education of the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts. Three
officials get together (left) for
an informal chat just before
the academic procession. Left to
right are Board Chairman
George Alpert, Dr. Hutchins &
President Abram L. Sachar.

student Marshals Paul Leven-
son '52, Marblehead, Mass.,
President of the Student
Union and Gustav Ranis '52,
Bethel, Conn., lead the stu-
dent procession (right). Mak-
ing his address (below) is Dr.
Hutchins. The Exercises were
delayed at the outset when
the audience of more than
4,000 took cover from a sud-
den downpour; many found
shelter on the platform. Eight
prizes for scholarship and good
citizenship were presented by
Dr. Max Lerner (bottom).
Chairman of the Faculty Com-
mittee on Student Awards.
Receiving his prize is Abraham
Heller "53. Claremont, N.H.

iJ^

the republic

Condensed from the address given at the
Third Annual Convocation Exercises, June 17, 1951

We know that we are closer to war now than we have been In the last five
years and that, If the war connes, It will be the worst the world has ever seen.
It will be the first within the memory of living men in which the cities and homes
of America will be destroyed. Even now, unless some change occurs In the
policy of this country or In the International situation, we know that some of
you will sooner or later be called to the colors and sent overseas to remote
parts of the earth to face danger and death.

If the object of education Is to prepare you for a better job, then there Is
Ittle It can do for you when the only vocation that you are certain to follow
Is soldiering. If the object of education Is to give you a leg up the social lad-
der, then it should be abandoned when society Is In disintegration. If the
object of education Is to adjust you to your environment, then It seems a
footless enterprise when nobody knows what your environment will be. Educa-
tion is a process by which men are made better. The most truly human being
Is the man who has most fully developed his moral, Intellectual, and spiritual
powers. The object of education Is to develop his Intellectual powers. This is
accomplished by persistent Inquiry Into the reason for things.

hience we see why higher education Is likely to be unpopular with the domi-
nant elements in society. They would be perfectly willing to support an edu-
cational program designed to fit the young Into society with a minimum of
discomfort, to have the university perform the same functions as the nursery
school. Persistent inquiry Into the reason for things Is likely to be disquieting.
Independent thought is almost by definition disturbing. Large and Influential
groups In America have therefore always sought to limit the Independence
of the university's thought and the scope of Its Inquiry. Sometimes these
groups have operated In the name of religion; but more often they have car-
ried on their subversive activities, as they are doing now, In the name of
patriotism. A society that limits independent thought and free Inquiry must
die. And the rulers of the Soviet Union will yet learn this to their cost.

When we see that the principal cultural manifestation of our epoch Is the
comic book, when we listen to the radio, look at television, and read the news-
papers, we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon to clv-

of learning

by Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins

ilization that its sponsors have always claimed
that it would be. It is impossible to believe that
an education limited to childhood and youth,
even if everybody has it, is adequate for any
democratic society. The reason is that the
knowledge that the citizens of such a society
need most cannot be fully grasped in child-
hood and youth. They may, indeed they must,
be introduced to these branches of knowledge;
but they cannot comprehend them.

There is one great educational generalization
that I am prepared to assert without qualifica-
tion and that is that one cannot understand
action without acting; one cannot learn to do
anything without doing it; and that since some
subjects, and they are some of the most im-
portant, require experience for their compre-
hension, they cannot be comprehended by the
inexperienced. Among such subjects I Include
history, ethics, economics, politics and litera-
ture. These subjects must be studied in youth;
but to study them in youth and never study
them again is a fatal error, one of which we in
America have always been guilty and for which
we are paying the penalty now in the adoles-
cence of our political reactions.

Montesquieu said that whereas the principle
of a monarchy was honor, and the principle of
a tyranny was fear, the principle of a republic
was education. The goal toward v/hlch we
started with the Athenians twenty-five centu-
ries ago is an unlimited republic of learning

and a world-wide political republic mutually
supporting each other. In the political republic
of today we must see to it that young people
go to school and college, not to get an educa-
tion once and for all, but to begin that which
as citizens of the political republic and the
republic of learning they should pursue as long
as they live.

Specialism, vocationalism, and the elective
system have broken up the community once
formed by the common schools. This is why
the great triumphs of science and technology
have been accompanied by a loss of under-
standing. We have discovered that it is pos-
sible to know more and more and understand
less and less. And so — and this Is a most sen-
sational paradox — the fulfillment of ambitions
that have animated man since the dawn of his-
tory ends In the trivialization of his life.

We must admit that If the American people
had achieved the emotional and intellectual
maturity that they yet show no signs of reach-
ing, Soviet Russia would still be a problem. But
we must admit, too, that America, with great
emotional and Intellectual Immaturity and
tremendous power, is also a danger to the
peace of the world. Emotional and intellectual
maturity Is precisely what Socrates sought to
produce, hie lived too late to succeed in his
own time and country. May heaven avert the
omen and make the republic of learning suc-
cessful in ours.

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An air of profound devotion characterized
the simple cerennony which took place on the
Brandeis cannpus on June 15. To the casual
observer the affair might have been one of
many which occur in the day-to-day routine
of the academic year, yet those families and
friends of the Brandeis benefactors who
gathered for the specially called Dedication
Day Exercises were deeply aware of the
momentous precedent they were setting.

During the Convocation week the Univer-
sity had set aside one day to dedicate the
new facilities named for those whose indivi-
dual affirmations of the Brandeis ideals are
creating a new force in higher education.
The people whose names these facilities bear
came from all parts of the country, but all
shared a common vision. For them the logical
activation of that vision has been the provi-
sion at Brandeis for dormitories, recreation
and teaching facilities and laboratories.

The family of the late Louis Emerman of
Chicago journeyed to the campus to see
Emerman Hall, one of the units of the Rldge-
wood Quadrangle dormitories; the family and
friends of the late William H. Sydeman,
prominent New York merchant, came to see
Sydeman hHall, which houses classrooms,
faculty offices and laboratories; Bostonlans
Edyth and Irving Usen admired the Com-
mons Room which bears their name; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fruchtman, noted Toledo
philanthropists, and members of their family
visited Fruchtman hiall, a double unit of the
RIdgewood dormitories; and the family of the

dedicate

Cutting the ribbon on the main entrance of
Charles Fruchtman Hall, a double unit of the
RIdgewood Quadrangle men's residences, are
(below) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fruchtman of
Toledo, Oliio, who visited the campus for
Dedication Day Exercises. Also present at
the ceremonies were members of the Syde-
man family (left) for dedication of William
H. Sydeman Hall, a classroom building. Left
to right are Dr. Solomon Rubin, Alfred P.
Grossman, Mrs. Grossman, and Mrs. Daniel
Harris.

late Abraham Shapiro, eminent Bostonlan
and one of the original members of the
Brandeis Board of Trustees, was on hand
for the ground-breaking of the Abraham
Shapiro Athletic Center.

Though time limited the Dedication Exer-
cises, benefactors and their families were con-
scious of the heartfelt gratitude expressed
by University officials and students and
in the eloquent tribute from guest speaker
Maurice J. Tobin, United States Secretary of
Labor. In these few words lay their thanks for
the rapid development of the University,
forged with the faith, energy and resources
of supporters who have made Brandeis a
strong pillar in American higher education.

As future Dedication Day Exercises follow,
the present buildings will be succeeded by
yearly additions to the University that will
stand as perpetual memorials to benefactors
whose names will be echoed and re-echoed
by generations of Brandeis students.

men at work

Re-elected National Chair-
man of the Brondeis Uni-
versity Associates was
Milton Kohn of Boston
(below). Getting together
for an informal chat at the
Associates Assembly are
Herman Mintz, Chairman of
the Assembly; Joseph Lin-
sey, Chairman of the Bron-
deis University Athletic
Association; and Harold
Sherman Goldberg, Chair-
man of the Board, Greater
Boston Associates Chapter.

"In order to have a true national organization we must stimulate all
our Associates in every city of the country to feel the spirit that those
near Boston do," said hlerman Mintz of Boston, acting Chairman of the
First National Assembly of the Brandeis University Associates. These
words were the core of the conclusions that came out of the meeting on
campus on June 16.

Until the Assembly the emphasis of the Associates had been mainly on
enlarging the numbers of the energetic and determined group on a nation-
wide scale. The keen discussions of the delegates who journeyed from
Toledo, Ohio, Miami Beach, Florida and Roanoke, Virginia, focused atten-
tion on the importance of a more detailed hierarchy of officers through-
out the country. By next June, the Associates will have extensive develop-
ments in their organization to report to the Second National Assembly.

The Associates has undertaken the salient job of an intensive member-
ship campaign. Its numbers, delegates noted, have swelled from 1,000 to
3,000; its support has grown from a handful of chapters entered in the
New England area to more than 30 units in states across the nation. From
this significant Assembly came the decision to embark on a program for
the enrollment of 7,500 members by Commencement next June. This
figure, almost double the present membership, will enable the Associates
to help bridge the gap between the University's income and expenditures,
a traditional function of university alumni organizations.

Under the vigorous national leadership of Milton Kahn, re-elected to
]he Chairmanship at the Assembly, Brandeis University Associates are
making magnificent contributions as loyal "foster alumni." They can look
forward to a secure future with confidence, for they have laid a firm
foundation upon which to pyramid their prospective activities.

campus concerts

Last year the Friends of the School of Music
launched its first major series of on-campus
concerts. The series marked the culmination
of untiring efforts to bring outstanding, rarely-
performed music to the campus. More signifi-
cantly, it heralded the establishment of a vital
music center at the University.

An enthusiastic audience thronged Nathan
Seifer hiall at the first concert in November to
hear hierman Godess (below) In his Boston
debut, and again in January gave a warm wel-
come to Norma Farber, premier prix winner in
singing, in her gifted recital of Goethe lieder.

Students had the opportunity to hear an
outstanding member of the faculty in a pro-
fessional concert role at the following concert
when Irving Fine and Zvi Zeitlen, Israeli violin-
ist, performed selections by Mozart, Stravin-
sky, Ben Zion Orgad and Fine.

The last two events were a trio concert with
Professor Erwin Bodky and Boston Symphony
Orchestra members Samuel Mayes and Al-
fred Krips, and the performance of Schubert's
Bectutiful Maid of the Mill by bass bari-
tone Paul Matthen. The series has set a
high standard for prospective events
when Brandels will be a center of
great musical activity.

student

students form a grand march
after crowning Evelyn
Rosenkrantz '54, Pottsville,
Pa., Queen of the Spring
Formal, one of the many
successful events of last
season (circle). Vistas of
former centuries appeared
on campus at the Beaux
Arts Ball. Winners and run-
ners-up (below) in Gay
Nineties costumes and Ro-
man togas pose happily for
contemporary cameraman.
(Opposite page, center)
Elizabeth Ward '53, Fall
River, and Robert Griffin
'54, Roxbury, Mass., carry
their trays at the Student
Union Charity Banquet cli-
maxing a week of student
fund-raising activities. Mem-
bers of the Drama Society
(top) in a tense moment from
Aristophanes' comedy Lysis-
trata, major presentation of
the year. (Bottom) Judith
Butman '54, New York, reads
the future for Laurie Braver-
man '53, Chelsea, Mass., at
the County Fair.

Guggenheim recipients

Claude Andre Vigee received consider-
able recognition both In this country and
In France for his first collection of poems, La
Lutte avec I'Ange. published last year In
Paris. He Is Assistant Professor of Romance
Languages and Literature, the same post
he held at Ohio State University where he
received his graduate degrees, hie has also
studied at the Universities of Caen, Stras-
bourg and Toulouse. While he is in Europe
on leave of absence he is preparing a criti-
cal study and translation of Ralner Maria
Rilke's posthumous poetry.

Irving GIfford Fine (left) was awarded a
Guggenheim fellowship In 1951 upon his
return from Paris where he made an exten-
sive study of contemporary trends in French
music. hHe Is Lecturer in Music and Com-
poser In Residence, and former Assistant
Professor in Music at Harvard. He has just
completed his fifth year as a faculty mem-
ber of the Berkshire Music Center at Tangle-
wood. Last May he was elected to the
League of Composers. During his leave of
absence, which begins in 1952, he will
devote himself to musical composition.

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Brandeisiana

Reports from Brandeis students show that the major portion of them, lilte
most college students, spent their time this summer working as waitresses,
counselors, office workers and farm hands to earn money for this year's tuition
and expenses. Some, however, were fortunate enough to jump the line of usual summer
opportunities open to undergraduates.

Two talented music students at Brandeis were at the Tanglewood Summer School
of Music under the direction of Charles Miinch, distinguished conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ray Gilbert '54 was in the Choral Department, and Eliyahu
Ahilea '54 studied conducting.

Pursuing their interest in the theater were three members of the Class of

'52: Eleanor Barron did summer stock with the Group 20 Players in Unionville,

Conn.; Barbara Swett was enrolled in a seminar with the Summer Acting Company

at Tufts College Arena Theater; Audrey Seder studied the dance at Jacob's Pillow

in Lenox, Mass.

David Van Praagh '52 gained fresh journalistic experience for his position as editor of

the student newspaper The Justice as reporter and editorial writer for the Shelby (N.C.)

Daily Star during the summer.

Three seniors were working in mental institutions and found that they gained
insight into normal social behavior from their experiences. Diana Laskin was
employed at the Peoria State Hospital, III.; Joan Garfein worked at the Franklin
Roosevelt Hospital, N.Y.; and Inge Fleishmann was with the Connecticut State Hospital.

Miriam Smith '52 was enrolled at the Encampment for Citizenship at Riverdale,
N.Y. She states that "the camp is based on the same ideals as Brandeis; it is an
experiment in democratic living bringing together many races and religious groups
in seminars, workshops and recreation."

Many Brandeis students continued their studies during the summer months at
other universities, among them Harvard, University of Wisconsin, U.C.L.A., Columbia,
Syracuse and the School of Ceramics at Alfred University. Evelyn Singer '52 attended the
Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Several undergraduates caught a bird's eye view of countries outside the United
States. Among those who toured Europe were Richard Hirshberg '53, Sylvia Neiman '52,
Shayna Patkin '52 and Dan Lourie '54.

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Brandeis
University

President of the University
DR. ABRAM L SACHAR

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Fellows
HON. HERBERT H. LEHMAN

Chairman of the Board of Fellows
FRANK L WEIL

The Board of Trustees

GEORGE ALPERT, Chairman
JAMES J. AXELROD
JOSEPH F. FORD
MEYER JAFFE
DUDLEY F. KIMBALL
PAUL KLAPPER
ADELE ROSENWALD LEVY
ISADOR LUBIN
DAVID K. NILES
JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER
NORMAN S. RABB
ISRAEL ROGOSIN
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
JACOB SHAPIRO
MORRIS S. SHAPIRO

President of the National Women's Committee
MRS. IRVING ABRAMS

National Chairman of the Brandeis Associates
MILTON KAHN

Chairman of the Friends of The School of Music
MARK WERMAN

Chairman of the Brandeis University Athletic Associatioi
JOSEPH LINSEY

Chairman of the Creative Arts Center Committee
ADOLPH ULLMAN

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"HOW IS FALA?" Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt exchanges greetings with
Brandeis student Bernice Miller
as Trustees James J. Axelrod,
Morris S. Shapiro and Mrs. Adele
RosenwaldLevylistcn with interest.

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ULLMAN AND ABRAMS ELECTED

TO UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Adolph Ullman and Mrs. Irving Abranis
have been elected to the Brandeis University
Board of Trustees.

Chairman of the Creative Arts Center Com-
mittee of the University, Mr. Ulhnan was the
first president and one of the founders of the
jf ^^^^B Friends of the School of Music of Brandeis
University. A Harvard Associate and former
Adolph llllman ^^^^^^^ University faculty member, Mr. Ullman
is President of the Northeastern Distributors and has been named to the National Pro-
duction Authority's Wholesale Industry Advisory Committee for Radio. Television and
Household Appliances. He is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the
American Academy of Political Sciences, and is an executive board member of the
American Jewish Committee.

Mrs. Irving Abrams. who was elected National President of the Brandeis Women's
Committee last June, is one of the pioneer members of the Brandeis Women's Committee
movement. Even before the University opened its doors in 1948, Mrs. Abrams was
active in its behalf. As a member of the Women's Scholarship Association of Boston,
she was responsible for the creation of the University's first scholarship endowment fund.
While serving as President of the Greater Boston Women's Committee, Mrs. Abrams
also served as National Vice President and organized chapters throughout New England
and as far south as Washington, D. C. As National President, she has traveled through-
out the nation organizing chapters and speaking on behalf of the University. In joining
Eleanor Roosevelt and Adele Rosenwald Levy on the Board, Mrs. Abrams becomes the
third woman Trustee in the University's history.

With the appointment of Mr. Ullman and Mrs. Abrams, the nmnbcr of Brandeis
Trustees has been increased to seventeen.

BRANDEIS LAUNCHES EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

Brandeis University this semester offers
an innovation in curricular development
with a new course. General Education
F, which will be required of all senior
students. Designed to serve as the cap-
stone course for undergraduates, it will
seek to aid students in analyzing the
basic questions underlying their choice
of values in a real world.

President Abram L. Sachar and Pro-

fessor Max Lerner will coordinate the
course which will bring to the campus as
visiting lecturers eight men and women
whose lives embody a fusion of a working
philosophy with an effective and produc-
tive life. During their residence on cam-
pus, the speakers will also meet with stu-
dents frequently in informal question
seminar sessions to outline and submit to
scrutinv their own philosophies.

MORRIS S. SHAPIRO, Chairman oj
the Trustee Committee on Scholarship,
confirms scholarship aivards to happy
freshmen Regina Doshay oj Mt. Vernon,
V. }'., and Bob Brown, of Falmouth,
Mass. The recipients are among the
265 students who are on scholarships or
other financial aid, comprising 40% of
the student body. Assistance is ren-
dered to needy students in the form of
scholarships, student employment, bur-
sary aid, grants-in-aid and loans.

MANCHESTER ASSOCIATES

ENROLL LIFE MEMBERS

The first three Life Members in New
England of the Brandeis Associates were
recently enrolled at a joint meeting of the
Associates Chapter and Women's Com-
mittee of Manchester. N. H.

Morris Silver, Henry Silver and Samuel
G. Camann, well known community
leaders, signed a life membership pledge
to their Associates chapter. Morris Silver,
Chairman of the Manchester Chapter, has
the distinction of being the second Life
Member to be enrolled in the nation and
the first in the New England area.

This successful dinner meeting was
attended by more than L50 community
leaders. Co-chairmen of the affair were
Mrs. Leonard V. Finder, President of the
Manchester Women's Committee and
Leonard V. Finder.

MARYLAND WOMEN PRESENT

NOVEL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE i

An all-out Brandeis Day proclaimed in
Baltimore. Md.. by a well organized
Women's Committee group inspired a
grand coup of membership enrollment.
A total of 315 new friends and ten life
memberships were enrolled in one day
of intensive campaigning.

While 28 hostesses were serving tea in
15 homes, a flying squad of 30 speakers
addressed their assigned meetings. All
speakers were carefully briefed and
coached by Mrs. I. B. Terrell, who organ-
ized a Speaker's Institute. Fifteen
speakers described the Women's Commit-
tee work, and the other 15 discussed the
history of Brandeis.

The effect of this well-organized speak-
ers' program together with the informal
hospitality provided by home meetings
rewarded the chapter with excellent mem-
bership enrollment. Mrs. Joseph Sher-
bow. Chairman of this successful cam-
paign and her cooperative committee set
a fine example of community planning.

VOL. II

JANUARY, 1952

NO. 3

Official Publication of Brandeis University
published 10 times a year (once in January
and May: twice in March. June, September
and October) at Brandeis University, 415 South
Street, Wallham 54, Mass. Entered as second
class matter at the Post Office in Boston, Mass.

The Board of Trustees: George Alpert, Chair-
man; Joseph F. Ford. Treasurer; Norman S.
Rabb, Secretary: Hannah Abrams, James J.
Axelrod, Meyer Jaffe, Dudley F. Kimball,
Paul Klapper. Adele Rosenwald Levy, Isador
Lubin, David K. Niles, Joseph M. Proskauer,
Israel Rogosin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacob
Shapiro, Morris S. Shapiro and Adolph Ullman.

President of the University: Dr. A. L. Sachar.

Honorary Chairman of the Fellows of the
University, Hon. Herbert H. Lehman; Chairman
of the Fellows of the University, Frank L. Weil.

Editor: Sue Singer; .4sst. Ed: Lorraine Berner

NEWS ISSUE

JUSTICE DOUGLAS ASKS EXTEISSION OF LIBERTIES;
FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND SPEECH
INDISPENSABLE TO SPREAD OF SOCIAL TRUTH

William 0. Douglas. Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, called
for a rebirth of American spiritual strength which "stems from our civil liberties," as
he delivered a stirring address to over 1,000 students, teachers and friends of the
University gathered to hear the Second Annual Louis Dembitz Brandeis Memorial
Lecture at Brandeis Liniversity.

LEGAL ML\DS FUCL:^ U.\ UHAADEIS . . .
Talking over the successful meeting of New
5 orii City's prominent attorneys and account-
ants. Chairman of the Board of Fellotvs of
Brandeis University, Frank L. Weil (right)
corners guest speaker, George Alpert (center) as
Joseph Eisner, Chairman of the Accountant
Committee waits his turn for first hand informa-
tion of University projects.

NEW BIOLOGY TEACHING
FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCED

The Harry and Robert Kangesser
Teaching Fellowship has been established
at Brandeis. Named for its donors, prom-
inent real estate men affiliated with the
H. A. Kangesser Co. of Cleveland, Ohio,
the fellowship is designed to enable a
gifted young man or woman to pursue
graduate studies while instructing Bran-
deis classes on a part-time basis.

Mrs. Nancy Millburn. Radcliffe gradu-
ate cum laude. and Tufts I niversity. M.A..
assumes the Kangesser Teaching Fellow-
ship in Biology for the 1951-1952 year.

BOOK FUND ALBUM INTRODUCED
BY BOSTON WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

A handsome Brandeis Book Fund
Album is now available to all friends of
the University who wish to purchase a
minimum of three books for the Library.

This Album offer was inaugurated to
stimulate donorship to the Liniversity
book fund. Books may be purchased to
honor or memorialize a friend or an
occasion. The book then bears a book-
plate inscribed with the name of the
recipient, who receives a copy of the
bookplate. When three bookplates are
sent to one recipient from one or more
sources, an album will be forwarded to
her as her personal record.

Initial subscription to the Album which
includes three bookplates is $15.00.

Women of the Greater Boston Chapter
are responsible for the innovation of this
Album presentation. Mrs. Irving Gardner
of Belmont, Mass., is General Chairman.

Extolling the man for whom Brandeis
University was named, the Justice de-
clared, "He knew the democratic way of
life is not an inheritance but an achieve-
ment of every oncoming generation. His
views, expressed largely in judicial de-
cisions revealed his belief that the final
end of government was 'to make men
free to develop their faculties" and the
greatest menace to freedom was an inert
people."

The speaker declared that this attitude
was a fighting faith in the democratic
way of life, because it rejected standard-
ized thought and orthodoxy: and encour-
aged constant search for truth at the
periphery of knowledge.

"If we are true to our traditions, if we
are tolerant of a whole market place of
ideas, we will always be strong," the
Justice asserted. "Our weakness grows
when we become intolerant of opposing
ideas, depart from our standards of civil
liberties, and borrow the policeman's
philosophy from the enemy we detest."

Claiming that "our greatest strength,
our enduring power is not in guns, but in
ideas." Justice Douglas said that "the
critical danger is that we will so limit or
narrow the range of permissible discus-
sion and permissible thought that we will
become victims of the orthodox school."

Declaring that youth has played a very
important role in our national affairs
similar to the opposition party in a par-
liamentary system. Justice Douglas com-
mented that a great change has taken
place. "Youth is still rebellious; but it
is largely holding its tongue. Repression
of ideas has taken the place of debate.
Youth, the mainstay in the early days of
the revolt against orthodoxy, is largely
immobilized."

The Justice concluded his address by
stating that the universities are an appro-
priate area to start a revitalization of
ideas in America. "When freedom of
expression is supreme, a nation will keep
its balance and stability."

HONORABLE WILLIAM 0. DOUGLAS, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court oj The United
States, drives home a point to inquiring students (left to right) Agnes Cooper, Monrovia, Liberia;
Sanjord Lakoff. Bayonne. A. J.. Managing Editor of "The Ju.-^lice"; Gustav Ranis. Bethel, Conn.,
President of the Senior CVn.s.s; Joan Hamerman, New York City. Co-chairman of Students for
Democratic Action; and Paul Levenson, Marhlehead. Mass., President of the Student I nion, preceding
the Annual Louis Dembitz Brandeis Memorial Lecture.

NEWS ISSUE

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY GAINS THREE NEW CHAIRS

To Supporf Instruction in the Social Sciences and Mathentatics

The Mack Kahn
Chair in History,
named for the New
York City commu-
nity leader has been
established in the
University's School
of Social Science.

Known for his
leadership in varied philanthropic efforts.
Mr. Kahn is President of Artistic Founda-
tions, Inc., Flexees, Inc. and Kenmark
Textiles, Inc. One of the original
founders of the Bellevue Medical Center.
Mr. Kahn is an energetic supporter of
the United Jewish Appeal and the
National Conference of Christians and
Jews. He is actively associated with the
Red Cross, Princeton University and
Smith College. Dr. Frank E. Manuel will
occupy the Kahn Chair.

The Alfred Hart Chair has been estab-
lished on an annual grant by Mr. Alfred
Hart of Los Angeles, the second Cali-
fornian to set up a University Chair.

Mr. Hart, widely known for his civic
and philanthropic activities, is President
of the Alfred Hart
Distilleries.

The School of So-
cial Science offers
fields of concentra-
tion in American
and European Civi-
lization, Economics.
Political Science,
Social Relations and
Psychology.

Dr. David S. Berkowitz, Professor of
History and Political Science, will occupy
the newly established Alfred Hart Chair
in the Social Sciences.

A/lrfJ Han

A major step in the expansion of the
teaching curriculum in the field of mathe-
matics at the University has been taken by
the Benjamin S.
Katz Family Foun-
dation which
recently endowed
the Ben Katz Chair.

Assistant Profes-
sor Oscar Goldman
has been appointed
to the Katz Chair,
which makes the Ben. Katz

eighth chair created for Brandeis.

Mr. Katz, President of the Gruen Watch
Co. of Cincinnati, is an advisory board
member of the Cincinnati Fifth Third
Union Trust Co., and is a member of the
Board of Governors for the Hebrew Col-
lege of Cincinnati. He is affiliated with
many leading Jewish Philanthropies.

JUSTICE BRANDEIS' BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED

WARSHAW GRANT ACCELERATES i
FUTURE RESEARCH PROJECTS >

The establishment of the Abraham War-
shaw Research Foundation will enable
the University to further important scien-
tific investigation.

The Foundation was initiated by a
grant from Abraham Warshaw. president
of the Warshaw Manufacturing Co.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

in addition to his benefaction, Mr.
Warshaw has also been active as "ambas-
sador." Since his attention was directed
to Brandeis by Meyer Jaffe. Chairman of
the Building Committee. Mr. Warshaw has
made many new friends for the University.

AS NEW YORK INDUSTRY LEADERS paid tribute to Justi.r ll,„n,/r,. ,„ ,,
man Hon. Joseph M. Proskauer, Trustee, (left) and Co-chairman fl . U'
Calvert's Distillers, Inc., discussed program notes with Susan Brandeis.

iiiiirial dinner. Chair-
Wachtel, President of

Over 265 outstanding industrial and
community leaders attended a dinner con-
vened to honor the birthday of Louis D.
Brandeis at the Hotel Roosevelt, Novem-
ber 15, sponsored by the Friends of
Brandeis in the Greater New York Area.

Chaired by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer,
University Trustee, and W. W. Wachtel,
President of Calvert Distillers, the dinner
resulted in direct contributions totaling
over $63,000.

The meeting was addressed by the Co-
chairmen, by President Abram L. Sachar,
and by George Alpert, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees.

One of the highlights of the affair was
the announcement of two special gifts.

The Young League for Brandeis made
known the establishment by William and
Nathan S. Sachs of the Israel Sachs Teach-
ing Fellowship in Social Relations, repre-
senting a gift of 325,000. Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Schwartz of New York also an-
nounced the creation of a scholarship
endowment in memory of their son,
Abbey Surrey Schwartz.

Among those who sponsored the dinner
were Col. Bernard S. Barron, Milton J.
Bluestein, Abraham Feinberg, Tubie Res-
nik, Samuel S. Schneierson, Col. Harry D.
Henshel, Edward F. Kook. Harold L.
Renfield, Samuel Rubin, Teviah Sachs,
Abraham Warshaw and Larry Gluckin.

RESEARCH FOLND.ATION .4T BRANDEIS
CRE.ITED as .Ibraham If'arshaiv (left) of
New York, presents check for the formation of
the Warshaw Research Foundation at Brandeis
University, to Trustee Meyer Jaffe (right) of
Fall River, Mass.

NEWS ISSUE

IRS. ROOSEVELT REPORTS BOSTON ASSOCIATES FETE SENIORS

ON AN OLD FRIEND

For Fala, long retired from White
House politics, life has taken on a slower
)ace. The once shining frisky pet of
'resident Roosevelt who endeared him-
lelf to the public, is really getting on.
''ala is 13.
A concerned Brandeis student rushed

cross campus to reach Mrs. Roosevelt

,s she was leaving a Trustee meeting at
;he University recently . . . just to ask

bout him.

The mention of Fala brought a tender
smile from Mrs. Roosevelt. Fala is well;

Id and grey, yes. but still a very fine dog.
He snores quite loudly, his mistress con-
fided; but no one seems to mind.

lALUMNI JOIN FORCES

IN ST. LOUIS MEETING

Over 400 members of the St. Louis
Chapter of the National Women's Com-
mittee and the newly initiated Brandeis
Associates Chapter indicated their strong
support to Brandeis University at their
first joint dinner meeting held at the
Shaare Emeth Temple.

Melvin Feist, Chairman of the success-
ful event, presented a stimulating pro-
gram for the evening, with the introduc-
tion of guest speakers, Mrs. Irving
Abrams, National President of Women's
Committees, and Dr. Abram L. Sachar.

Mrs. Maurice Schweitzer was installed
as the new President of the Women's
Chapter, succeeding Mrs. Morris M.
Sachar.

Irving Billiard, an editor of the St.
Louis Post Dispatch, presented a book
containing published evaluations of Jus-
tice Brandeis' contributions to American
life. Mr. Dilliard declared that the life of
Justice Brandeis was an example of the
fallacy of bigotry, and contrasted the
furor which greeted Brandeis' appoint-
ment to the Supreme Court with the uni-
versal tributes paid to him on his death.

CELEBRATING FOUR YEARS AT
BRANDEIS . . . Senior President Gus-
tav Ranis blous out candles of the cake
presented to the senior class, honored
guests of the Greater Boston Associates
Chapter Dinner. IT' ell-wishers pictured
left to right are, Harold S. Goldberg,
Chairman of the Dinner, George Alpert,
Trustee Chairman, Hyman Cohen, Presi-
dent and Dr. Abram L. Sachar.

The most successful Associates Dinner
ever staged was tendered by the Greater
Boston Associates, as more than 1200
invited members and guests of the Uni-
versity were in attendance to honor the
100 senior students of the first graduating
class and the pioneer faculty members
of the University.

President Hyman Cohen of the Boston
Associates presented Dr. Abram L. Sachar
with pledges representing 1500 members.

Dr. Selman Waksman, responsible for
the discovery of streptomycin and neo-

FIRST ASSOCIATES LIFE MEMBER

To Willy Nord-
wind, Chicago com-
munity leader and
manufacturer, goes
the honor of becom-
ing the first Life
Member of Brandeis
Associates.

A charter mem-
ber of the Associ-
ates. Mr. Nordwind is President of the
Athletic Shoe Company of Chicago, 111.

He is a member of the University Club
of Boston, Counselor of Vocational Guid-
ance at Northwestern University, and
Director of United Service for New
Americans, Inc.

Mr. Nordwind"s other communal afiili-
ations include the Directorship of Temple
Beth El in Lynn, Mass.

If illy Nordwind

GREENSBORO, N. C ictire

women's chapter takes time out — to read
about Brandeis. Guest speaker, Mrs.
Sidney Q. Janus, National Vice Presi-
dent and President of Atlanta Chapter
(3rd from left) recently addressed or-
ganization meeting. From left to right
are Co-chairmen Mrs. Marie Fried-
laender and Mrs. A. F. Klein; Mrs.
Harry Jacobs and Mrs. Sam Prago.

mycin, was honored with a citation as the
first Fellow of Brandeis University. This
presentation was made by George Alpert,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Chairman Harold S. Goldberg lauded
the efforts of Sidney L. Kaye, Vice Presi-
dent, and members of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Greater Boston Chapter H.
Leon Sharmat and Lawrence Laskey, who
contributed to the success of the dinner.

George Alpert, Dr. Sehnan Waksman,
Gustav Ranis and Dr. Abram L. Sachar
addressed the assemblage.

MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATES MEET

The Brynwood Country Club was the
scene of a well-attended dinner meeting,
sponsored by the Milwaukee Chapter of
Associates and friends of the University.

Seven Life Members were enrolled at
the dinner which was chaired by Judd
Post. Speakers were George Alpert, Chair-
man of the Board of Trustees and Coach
Benny Friedman.

LIBRARY FACILITIES AUGMENTED

A rare grouping of books comprising
over 300 volumes of Judaica, European
and English literature has been donated to
the University library shelves. The group-
ing includes the Alexander S. Wolf col-
lection and the Benjamin L. Gordon
books.

Named for the late Dr. A. S. Wolf of
St. Louis, the handsome volumes of the
Wolf Collection were donated by his
sister. Mrs. Sarah Wolf Goodman; and
son Daniel Wolf, both of Indianapolis.
In addition to the Wolf Collection. Mrs.
Goodman, widow of Jack Goodman, a
well-remembered community leader, has
donated the Jack Goodman Library col-
lection to the University.

The Gordon collection has been desig-
nated to the University by Dr. Benjamin
L. Gordon of Ventnor, New Jersey. In-
cluded in the collection are volumes
authored by Dr. Gordon.

NEWS ISSUE

CHICAGO . . . There's quite a stir in Chicago press circles, with the release of a
newspaper publication created by the National Womens Committee of the Greater
Chicago Chapter. Pin-pointing all eyes on Brandeis, this news vehicle is edited by
Co-chairmen Mrs. Melvin L. Afremow and Mrs. Howard Adler . . LOS ANGELES
. . . Women^s Cotntnittee meeting draws a fine attendance to welcome and
install newly elected officers: President, Mrs. Samuel Moss, Vice President,
Mrs. George B. Taussig, Corr. Secretary, Mrs. Kate Cranon, Rec. Secretary,
Mrs. Benjamin Kapp aiul Treasurer, Mrs. Sol Halperin . . SPRIISGFIELD,
ILL. . . . Chairing a successful dinner meeting, Mr. Benjamin Victor and his
Springfield Associates were host to an enthusiastic group of men and women
gathered to hear more about Brandeis. Representing Decatur, Illinois Associates
at the joint affair were Chairmen Emanuel Rosenberg and Irving Appelbaum. Four
tuition scholarships ivere pledged by Benjamin Victor, Jacob and William Gingold and
Mr. and Mrs. Morton A. Barker. Guest speaker was Dr. Abram L. Sachar. Co-chair-
men of the meeting included Morton A. Barker, Mrs. M. J. Kellner and Harry Stern
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. . . . From the newly-organized Women's Committee, Mrs
Eli Goldstein offered a helping hand in guiding the creation of an Associates Chapter
William Sinkin was elected to serve as Chairman . . HAVERHILL, MASS. . .
Chaired by Earl Ashworth, a new Associates group gathered for their first annual
meeting to hear an address by Dr. Merrill D. Peterson. Instructor in American
Civilization at Brandeis University. Dr. Peterson discussed the University's educa-
tional aims and development . . BUFFALO, N. Y. . . . The tremendous response
of communal leaders to the creation of an Associates chapter was indicated
by the strength of enrollment at a recent luncheon meeting. Michael H.
Cohn became the first life member of Buffalo. Prominent citizens have
joined Edward H. Kavinoky, Chairman, in building the interest of this new
and ambitious chapter. Isadore A. Moss is General Chairman . . WEST-
PORT, CONN, . . . The Birchwood Country Club was the scene of a well-attended
Associates meeting which resulted in increased activity plans ahead for the Westport
chapter. The meeting was chaired by Gustave Rosen and Philip Carlson, Co-chairmen.
TUCSON, ARIZONA . . . Western friends may well point with pride to the strong
nucleus of leadership evident in their newly organized chapter of Associates. The
initial meeting was arranged by Stanley A. Katcher. Ralph Brandes was elected
chairman of the evening. Mrs. Hyman Copins is credited with giving new impetus
to the reorganization of the Associates group . . SAN DIEGO, CALIF. . . . Another
Associates Chapter identifies with Brandeis University, with Morris Kraus' vigorous
support stimulating jar-reaching representation in San Diego. Dr. Abraham Nasatir
chaired the first successjul meeting . . INDIANAPOLIS, IND. . . . Over 70 members
recently enrolled at an Associates meeting bringing closer the pledged membership
goal of 100 new friends of the University, by the end of the year. Well known
community leader L. L. Goodman was chairman of the dinner meeting. Leonard
Solomon was elected to the presidency.

Brandeis' first "Year Book." produced
by the class of '52, is now being
readied for publication. This historic
volume, offering a composite pictorial
review of the first four years at Bran-
deis. will be published in a limited
edition. Yearbooks are $8.00 per copy
and are available to foster alumni.
They may be secured by mailing re-
quests and checks payable to the
Brandeis University Yearbook Asso-
ciation, Waltham 54, Mass.

WOMEN'S PRESIDENT COMPLETES
MID-WEST TOUR OF CHAPTERS

INDUSTRIALIST INITIATES FUND

Approximately $150,000 has been set
aside by Sol H. Friedman of Cleveland,
to provide college educations for the
children of his salaried employees.

Mr. Friedman, president of the Solar
Steel Corporation announced that scholar-
ships have been set up at Harvard. Michi-
gan and Brandeis University.

Benefits will be extended to children
of 125 employees. Ninety per cent of the
college bill, including living expenses,
will be paid by the business concern.

National President
Committee. Mrs. Irvmg

the Women's
g Abrams has
recently returned from an extensive tour
of the far-flung chapters of Women's Com-
mittees in the mid-west.

This ambitious circuit led Mrs. Abrams
to Peoria. Illinois, where she met with
the Executive Board of the Women's
Chapter. In Des Moines, Iowa and Kan-
sas City, Missouri she organized two new
chapters to join the mid- west representa-
tion of friends of the University.

The eleven-day tour was terminated
with a successful dinner meeting in St.
Louis, where Mrs. Abrams joined Dr.
Abram L. Sachar as guest speaker.

BASKETBALL EXPERTS PREDICT
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR JUDGES

Coach Harry Stein's Brandeis Uni-
versity basketball team has been pointed
out by New England hoop experts as a
future team of distinction. The Judges
started out on a rugged 22 game schedule
of their first varsity season by losing four
out of their first seven games. Strangely
enough, the experts are still predicting
great things for Brandeis, but it's going
to take time.

Brandeis started off by losing a three
point thriller to Dartmouth; lost to Provi-
dence and Boston LIniversity by five
points each; defeated Gorham Teachers
and Bates handily; were beaten in the
final seconds by Norwich, then topped
powerful St. Michaels by five.

At this writing, the Judges are 10 points
away from an undefeated season — an en-
couraging record in view of the fine
calibre of opposition.

NEW DIRECTOR JOINS STAFF

Saul Elgart has

been named to a

newly-created post

as Director of Field

Operations. This

appointment was

made known by

George Alpert.

Chairman of the

Board of Trustees.

Mr. Elgart will integrate the field opera-
tions of the University's development pro-
gram, whose expansion continues at an
ever-growing pace.

For the past four years, Mr. Elgart
served as National Campaign Director of
the combined campaign for the Union of
American Hebrew Congregation, Hebrew
Union College and the Jewish Institute
of Religion. Prior to that, he had acted
as Senior Overseas Field Representative
for the American Jewish Joint Distribu-
tion Committee.

.Saul Elgart

NEWS 1 S S V E

COTTRELL GRANT GIVEN

TO BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

A Frederick Gardner Cottrell grant for
the support of scientific research has been
made to the University by the Board of
Directors of Research Corporation of New
York City. The research program will be
directed by Dr. Saul G. Cohen. Chairman
of the School of Science.

The Research Corporation is a non-
profit organization founded by the late j
Frederick Gardner Cottrell. Recently, it
launched a special program of research
funds intended for the support of the
researches of young men in smaller edu-
cational institutians.

CHARLES RIVER AWAITS

JUDGES' FIRST VARSITY CREW

The Brandeis University campus now
extends to the banks of the Charles River,
which also flows past Harvard, M.I.T.,
and Boston University. The purchase of
seven acres of land along the Charles
now makes possible the development of
aquatic sports at Brandeis University.

The acquisition of this land from
private sources gi\es the campus an ex-
tension of 21 acres to Sandy Cove. Now
Brandeis has complete freedom of the
Charles for several miles, and awaits the
time when a Brandeis crew will race
against its up-the-river neighbors.

EXECUTIVE WOMEN
EXCHANGE VIEWS IN
BOSTON . . . (left to
right) National Vice-Presi-
dents, Mrs. Nehemiali H.
Whitman, Boston, and Mrs.
Sidney Q. Janus, Atlanta-
Boston Field Secretary, Mrs.
Louise Rudolfsky; National
President, .Mrs. Irving
.Ibrams; Hon. .National
Vice-President, Mrs. Harry
L. Michaels; National \ ice-
Presidents, Mrs. Milton Call-
ner, Chicago, Mrs. Phillip
Meyers, Cincinnati. Mrs.
Ma.x Slater, Boston, & Mrs.
Louis I. Kramer. Providence.

FOSTER ALUMNI VISIT CAMPUS;

BECOME FRESHMEN FOR A DAY

.4be IValdauer and Blanche Kaplan

Ask any Brandeis frosh if he remem-
bers that first day on campus and the
answer will evoke a stream of jumbled
but happy memories. Pose vour querv
to two foster alumni. Mrs. Blanche Kap-
lan of Chicago. 111., and Abe Waldauer of
Memphis. Tenn. — "Freshmen" for a day
— and you"ll get an ecstatic story that is
being happily retold again and again.

For Mrs. Kaplan, the charm of Bran-
deis University unfolded for the first
time. She joined the chattering, excited
freshmen along the campus paths, passed
the Wishing Well of drowned pennies

(testimonials to passing grades) and on
to the gracious halls of the Castle. Like
any other student. Mrs. Kaplan paid rapt
attention to Doctors Thornton. Gossner,
Lewisohn and other faculty members.
Later, a hurried search ensued for fellow
Chicagoans.

The immediate interests of Mr. Wal-
dauer led him directly to the football
field — and with good reason. For "Fresh-
man" Waldauer this was a homecoming.
Only two years ago. he had seen construc-
tion signs announcing the forthcoming
project of the Memphis Tract. Now a
football soared over a completed stadium
seating 10.000. Heading hack toward
campus, he noted with "Memphian" pride
the miracle of progress in buildings and
cleared areas. Much later, there was time
to enjoy a spirit of camaraderie with his
roommates assigned to sleeping quarters
in the Castle.

Both "Freshmen" were heartily in
accord that there is a real sense of be-
longing and a genuine delight in being
a Brandeis student.

DETROIT ASSOCIATES,
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE,
INTENSIFY ACTIVITIES

PLANS FOR PROMOTING BRANDEIS are
arranged as jellow Detruiiers presiding nt an
eventful luncheon meeting confer tvith Presi-
dent Abram L. Sachar. Pictured left to right
are Nate S. Shapero, General Chairman and
Leonard Sitnons, Co-chairman.

An unprecedented turn-out of member-
ship in the Detroit Associates Chapter
declared their enthusiastic support for
Brandeis University with the announce-
ment of .SIOO.OOO in grants pledged to
University projects.

The ambitious leadership of General
Chairman Nate S. Shapero and Co-chair-
men Sidney J. Allen, Leonard Simons,
and Robert J. Newman provided a color-
ful dinner meeting, feting the Brandeis
football team just arrived for a gridiron
contest with Wayne University. Dr.
Abram L. Sachar was the guest speaker.

For the first time, the Detroit Women's
Committee's persuasive talents were ex-
ercised at the Associates dimier. Acting
as hostesses, one connnittee woman was
assigned to each Associates' table. In this
effective manner, the women were most
influential in encouraging personal schol-
arship pledges, and thus stimulating con-
tributions. Mrs. Oscar Zemon, President,
and Program Chairman Mrs. Lena Brisk-
man deserve credit for this innovation.

The Associates are dedicated to obtain
400 new friends for the University and
plan to raise a minimum of .1250.000.

A scholarship was established by Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Daniels, in memory of
their father. Aaron. Another scholarship
was given bv Mr. George E. Goldberg.
A loan fund was created by Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Caplan and a teaching fellowship
was given bv Nathan and John Lurie.

CALENDARS PUBLISHED
Attractively bound Brandeis Engage-
ment Calendars for 1952, complete vrHh
illustrated photos o( students, faculty
and campus are now available at the
Campus Book Store at $1.00 per copy.
This annual publication may be ob-
tained by mail. Please make checks
payable to Brandeis University.

Daniels Printing Co.. Boston

NEWS ISSUE

HALPERIN FAMILY UNDERWRITES

CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

This semester, the Abraham Halperin
Laboratory joined the impressive list of
endowed facilities and further augmented
scientific research at Brandeis.

Named for the late Abraham Halperin,
the Laboratory was created by his mother,
Mrs. Esther Halperin, Brooklyn, N. Y.;
his sister, Mrs. Nettie H. Melker; and
two brothers, Meyer Halperin of Brook-
lyn, and Samuel J. Halperin of Miami
Beach, Florida. The late Mr. Halperin, a
well-known philanthropist, was owner of
the Traymore Hotel in Miami Beach.

BRANDEIS DAY PROCLAIMED

BY MAYOR KENNELLY OF CHICAGO

The 95th Anniversary of the birth of
the late Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
was honored by the city of Chicago with
the proclamation of Brandeis Day by
Mayor Martin H. Kennelly.

Declaring that Justice Brandeis was of
immeasurable service to his country and
that a great University today most
fittingly perpetuates his name, Mayor
Kennelly pronounced that members of
the community of Chicago will continue
to give their fullest support to Brandeis

INDUSTRY SALUTES BRANDEIS . . . Playing cm active role in jidtUling their pledges to
recruit 1,000 Associates, the Beverage Industry Committee of Neiv York City continues to promote
good will through their newly inspired luncheon club meetings. At Club "21" are (left to right)
William Modes, Harold L. Renfield, of Renfield Importers, Brandeis Prof. .Max Lerner, John L. Leban,
President of Schenley Distillers, Inc., Composer Richard Rodgers and Charles A. Berns.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

^^^ WALTHAM 54. MASS.

The Brandeis University Serv-
ice Bureau is now in the
process of checking all name
plates for duplicates. The Uni-
versity would appreciate it if
you would notify the Service
Bureau at Waltham, Mass., if
you have received duplicates
of University literature or
have changed your address.

University so that, "'the youth of America
may follow paths of idealism for which
the late Justice Brandeis was known."

Coinciding with the meeting date of
the Chicago Associates, Brandeis Day in
Chicago was feted on November 13. At
the Stevens Hotel in Chicago, a brilliant
dinner meeting sponsored by more than
75 community leaders of the Chicago
Associates attracted an overwhelming
attendance of friends of the University.

George Alpert, Chairman of the Board
of Trustees and Professor Alpheus
Thomas Mason, the nation's foremost
auihority on the life of Louis Dembitz
Brandeis were the guest speakers, with
Morton Weinress presiding as toastmaster
of the occasion.

Milton Callner, John Mack and Gerald
Gidwitz were Co-chairmen of the success-
ful dedication dinner which stimulated
gifts to the University totaling the sum
of .$100,000.

A generous fund was designated for a
music room in the new women's dormi-
tory by J. J. Shelley of the Shelley-Levin-
son Foundation. David K. Olin assigned
funds for the realization of a machine shop
at the University, in memory of Louis B.
Olin. Other gifts were directed toward
the purchase of scientific equipment and
designated to supplement scholarship
grants. Unrestricted capital gifts were
also given to University building projects.

The prolific response to Life Member-
ship and the enrollment of more than 100
new members to the Chicago Chapter of
Brandeis Associates indicated the pro-
ductive support of fellow Chicagoans who
paid tribute not only to Justice Brandeis'
Anniversary, but extended their sustained
interest to Brandeis University.

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NEWS t S S V E

OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY LEADERS APPOINTS
AS FIRST FELLOWS OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Forty-one men
and women, distin-
guished in the arts
and sciences and
prominent in busi-
ness and profession-
al liie, have been
selected from com-
munities through-
out the nation as
the first Fellows of
Rrandeis Universilv.
the appointments was

Herht'rt Lclinuiu

Ainiouncement of
made bv George

Alpert. chairman of the Board of Trustees.

First to be appointed a Fellow was Dr.
.'^elman Waksman. distinguished micro-
biologist responsible for the discovery of
streptomycin. Dr. Waksman who serves
as consultant in science to the University
was named a Fellow last December. The
other Fellows were named this week.

Senator Herbert H. Lehman of New
York serves as honorary chairman of
the Fellows. Chairman is Frank L. Weil,
also of New York.

Representing 20 cities in 17 states and
the District of Columbia, the Fellows of
Brandeis include three women: Miss
Susan Brandeis of New York City, daugh-
ter of the late Supreme Court Justice for
whom the University is named: Miss Lutie
D. Goldstein of San Francisco: and Mrs.
Max Richter. New York City.

Also appointed to the roster of Fellows
were Edward Adaskin. Fall River. Mass.
(posthumous): Sid-
ney J. Allen. De-
troit: Samuel E.
Aronowitz, Albany:
Louis Aronstam.
Atlanta: Milton
Callner, Chicago:
Colonel Henrv
Crown, Chicago:
Mose M. Feld.
Houston: Dr. Jo-
seph Frehling. Louisville. Ky.: Charles
Fruchtman, Toledo: Frank Garson, At-
lanta: E. I. Goldstein. St. Louis; Herman
Handmacher. Louisville.

Benjamin Katz. Cincinnati: Cecil D.

Frank IT eil

Kauffmann, Washington. D. C; Leonard

Krieger, Pittsburgh; Morton May, St.

Louis: Philip Meyers, Cincinnati;

Benjamin Ouris-

man. Bethesda. Md.:

Philip Pearlman.

Baltimore; Jack I.

Poses, New York

City; Jacob Potof-

sky, New York City;

Samuel Rapaporte.

Providence.

Harold L. Ren-
field. New York
City: Dr. Julius Rogoff. Rowayton, Conn.;j
Samuel Rubin. New York City: John D.-
Schapiro. Baltimore; Nathan Shapero. De-
troit: Sam S. Schneierson. New York City;
Charles Segal. Larchmont. N. Y.: Judge
Joseph Sherbow, Baltimore: Leonard
Simons. Detroit; Alvin Sopkin. Provi-
dence: Dr. Selman Waksman. New Bruns-
wick. N. J.: Abe D. Waldauer, Memphis;
Joseph Weingarten. Houston; Morton
Weinress. Chicago; Herman Wiener,
Toledo: Charles H. Yalem, Clayton, Mo.

Selman Waksman ]

STERIS LmCOLlSlAf^A

AUGMEJ\TS LIBRARY

Another major step in the rapid growth
of the L^niversitv Librarv has been taken
through the generosity of Alfred Whital
Stern, prominent Chicago community
leader. Mr. Stern has contributed 200
volumes on Aliraham Lincoln to the
Librarv.

Mr. Stern, a well-known authoritv on
Lincoln, gave to the Librar\ of Congress
the finest collection of Lincolniana in the
countrv. His gift to the Lhiiversitv is of
particular value to students and facultv
of the School of Social Science who are
using the Stern Collection of Lincolniana
in their study of the Civil War.

INDUSTRY LEADERS STAGE CAP AND GOWN DANCl

Leaders of the Cosmetic and Drug In-
dustry — the first industry in New York to
organize for the support of Brandeis —
once again are demonstrating their active
interest in the LIniversity. Sparked by
Co-chairmen Samuel Rubin of Faberge
and Jack I. Poses of DOrsav Sales Com-
pany, the frienrls of Brandeis in the Cos-
metic and Drug Inrlustry held a fruitful
meeting to plan a dinner-dance in honor
of the first Brandeis Commencement.

Out of this meeting came the plans for
a major fund-raising event which resulted
in a gala social affair. In honor of the first
Brandeis Commencement this June, the
Cosmetic and Drug Industry members
held a Cap and Gown Dinner-Dance.

Among the early sponsors of the dance
were Isadore Alter. A'Cadia Powder Puff

Co.: Lewis Bernstein. Coty, Inc. (attor-
ney) ; Leo Bertisch. Llnited Cigar Whelan,
Co.; Herbert Brandt. Bloomingdales; Mil-
ton Cohen, Henry B. Cohen Drug Co.;
Irving Feldman. Zelart Drug Co., Inc.;
Louis 1. Furlager, Furlager Mfg. Co.;
Meyer Katz. Gimbels: Louis E. Kalty,
Progressive Drug Co.

Also Oscar Kolin, Helena Rubenstein,
Inc.: Howard Mack, Mack Drug Co.;
Joseph L. Mailman. Pal Blade Co.; Hugo
Mock, Mock & Blum (attorney): Rich-
ard Salomon, Charles of the Ritz; Benson
Storfer, Rudolph Storfer and Herbert i
Storfer, Parfums Corday. Inc.; Stanley
Swabach, Abraham & Straus.

VOL. II

APRIL, 1952

NO. 4

MASSACHUSETTS GOl
ERNOR PAUL A.DEVER

joins the Brandeis Asso-
ciates as the 1200th mem-
ber of the Greater Bo:,ton
Chapter. Pictured receii-
iii;^ his check at the State
House in Boston are (left
to right) Harold Sherman
Goldberg, membership
chairman of the Greater
Boston Associates ; and
Hymati Cohen, president.

Official Publication of Brandeis University pub-
lished 8 times a year (twice in September and:
June, once in January, April. July, August) at'
Brandeis University, 41.5 .South Street. Waltham
.54, Mass. Entered as second class matter at the
Post Office in Boston, Mass.

The Board of Trustees: George Alpert. chairman;
Joseph F. Ford, treasurer; Norman S. Rabb. sec-
retary; Hannjh Abrams. James J. Axelrod. Meyer
Jaffe, Dudley F. Kimball. Paul Klapper (de--
ceased ) , Adele Rosenwald Levy, Isador Lubin, .
David K. Niles. Joseph M. Proskauer. Israeli
Rogosin. Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacob Shapiro, Mor-
ris S. Shapiro and Adolph Ullman.

President of the I'niversity: Dr. Abram L. Sachar.

Honorary Chairman of the Fellows of the Uni- ■
versity. Hon. Herbert H. Lehman; Chairman of
the Fellows of the University, Frank L. \\eil.

.■\ssoc. Editors: Lorraine Berner. Jean Hur\ins

NEWS I S S V E

Paul Klapper
1885—1952

DR. PAUL KLAPPER

The Boaril of
Trustees and the
President express
their profound
sorrow at the
death of Dr. Paul
Klapper of New
York, a member
of the Brandeis
University Board of Trustees.

On receiving word of the passing
of Dr. Klapper, George Alpert,
chairman of the Board stated:

"I was deeply grieved to learn of
the untimely death of Dr. Paul Klap-
per, who has served with us so vigor-
ously as a member of the Board of
Trustees of Brandeis University.
Dr. Klapper's early vision and un-
flagging enthusiasm were in no
small measure responsible for the
founding of this institution nearly
four years ago. Brandeis University
and its Board of Trustees will sorely
miss the firm leadership and in-
spired guidance which Dr. Paul
Klapper brought to us in his role as
one of the founding Trustees."

One of the most valiant and able
proponents of higher education in
this country. Dr. Klapper was
elected first president of Queens Col-
lege in New York and served on the
Board of Trustees of New York
State University.

Dr. Klapper graduated from the
City College of the City of New York
and served there as Professor of
Education, later as Dean of the
School of Education. In 1949-50 he
was a visiting professor at the Uni-
versity of Chicago.

UNIVERSITY BUILDS AMPHITHEATRE
FOR CREATIVE ARTS ACTIVITIES

PROVIDENCE WOMEN MEET;
INSTALL NEW PRESIDENT

Providence. R. I. women gathered at
;he Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel for their an-
nual meeting and installation of officers
to hear Dr. Max Lerner, professor of
American civilization and institutions, dis-
cuss "'Design for Education".

A reception for Dr. Lerner and a coffee
hour preceded the program, during which
Mrs. Louis I. Kramer, president of the
chapter since its founding three years ago,
gave the animal report.

More than 2.50 members witnessed the
installation of Mrs. Arthur J. Levy as
president and Mrs. Kramer as honorary
presitlent. Other officers elected were vice
presidents Mrs. Irving J. Fain and Mrs.
Seebert J. Goldowsky; Mrs. Max Green-
baum, treasurer; Mrs. Archie Fain, re-
cording secretary: Mrs. Abraham Adler.
corresponding secretary; and Mrs. Judah
Senienoff, financial secretary.

Editorial Reprinted from

^f)c Pogton Bail? miotic

For the Humanities

There is something appealing in the
news that Brandeis University is building
an amphitheatre for musical, dramatic and
other cultural activities. Americans have
become so accustomed to think of colleges
in terms of their stadiums and bowls that
this enterprise seems attractively out of
the ordinary.

The structure will be the first unit in a
Creative Arts Center at the university.
It will bear the name of Adolph Ullman,
a Boston businessman friend of the univer-
sity, who has underwritten the cost. The
amphitheatre will be ready for a Festival
of Creative Arts in June.

All these facts make it clear that Bran-
deis is doing something very useful. In
a period when all the public pressures urge
educational institutions to act otherwise,
the university is making a strong effort
to emphasize the humanities, the liberal
studies.

It is not only establishing a position for
itself. It is providing an example which
will have its effect on other American
Universities.

BOSTOfS MEMBERSHIP
REACHES HIGH MARK

Terminating an intensive eight-week
membership drive, the Greater Boston
Chapter of the Women's Committee held
its annual meeting at the Hotel Somerset
under the chairmanship of Mrs. Herman
A. Mintz, president. A large enrollment
of new members swelled their numbers to
5,000.

Highlighting the meeting was a panel
discussion entitled "Education for To-
morrow" which presented four members
of the Brandeis faculty to the enthusiastic
crowd of over 500 women. The partici-
pants were professors of physics, music,
psychology and English.

ACTII E DENVER LEAD-
ERS take time out after
II successful meeting at
the Brown Palace Hotel
to read about Brandeis
with Trustee Chairman
George Alpert. Left to
right are Emmelt Heitler;
Mr. Alpert; David S.
Touff, chairman of the
Denver .4.ssociates ; and
Judge Charles Rosenbauni.
.4s a result of the meeting
everyone present joined
the ranks of the Brandeis
Associates.

The Adolph Ullman Amphitheatre now
being constructed at Brandeis will be com-
pleted in time for the Festival of the
Creative Arts to be held at Brandeis this
June, the University has announced.

The Amphitheatre, which will contain
full facilities for spring and summer musi-
cal, theatrical and other cultural activities,
is the first unit to be built in the projected
Creative Arts Centre of the University.

Cost of the Amphitheatre's construction
has been underwritten by Adolph Ullman,
a member of the Board of Trustees, who
serves as chairman of the Creative Arts
Centre Committee and as honorary chair-
man of The Friends of The School of
Music. Mr. Ullman is president of North-
eastern Distributors in Boston.

Designed by the architectural firm of
Harrison and Abramovitz of New York,
who collaborated in the planning of the
United Nations Secretariat Building, the
Amphitheatre will feature a 62-foot stage,
which with sliding doors can be closed to
40 feet. There will be an orchestra pit
capable of seating 40 musicians.

The lower level of the Amphitheatre
makes provisions for several large class-
rooms, in addition to toilet and shower
rooms, dressing rooms, and storage and
utility rooms. Seating facilities will be
available in this first year for 2000. with
the potential for future expansion.

The structure will be complete with
theatrical lighting equipment, scenery
backdrops, and stage curtains. To be
constructed of wood and concrete, it will
occupy three acres of land on a natural
slope facing the grape arbor on the Uni-
versity's 181-acre campus.

"The new Amphitheatre," President
Sachar declared, "is a tribute to the vision
of Mr. Ulhiian who has, from the begin-
ning of the University's life, been con-
cerned about the creative arts program."

NEWS ISSUE

COLUMBUS, OHIO . . National President Mrs. Irving Abrams installed the
newly-elected officers of the Womens Committee chapter at an eventful membership
luncheon attended by 350 women. Chapter President Mrs. Alfred J. Kobacker
presided .... JACKSONVILLE, FLA. . . Always on the alert for promoting
Brandeis, the enterprising JTonieji's Committee chapter under the chair-
manship of Mrs. Benjamin Stein arranged a television program for Clarence
Q. Berger, executive assistant to the president, on the afternoon of their
annual membership meeting .... LAS VEGAS, NEVADA . . The ever-expand-
ing frontier of friendship for Brandeis has been pushed forward by a new Associates
committee, organized by Jacob Kozloff. A luncheon meeting, sponsored by Mr.
KozlofI, was addressed by Trustee Chairman George Alpert who brought the Bran-
deis story to the Nevada group .... DETROIT . . Three Brandeis stinlerits home on
vacation presented a panel on "The Sludenl's Eye-l ietv of Brandeis" to the W omen's
Committee chapter. Mrs. Oscar Zemon and Mrs. Leonard Kasle were co-chairmen.

WALTHAM . . Brandeis University played host to Dr. Curt Wormann, director of
the Jewish National and University Librarv of Jerusalem, who was observing the
library facilities and methods, in conjunction with a general tour of American
libraries .... DORCHESTER, MASS. . . Over 70 new members enrolled at the
district meeting chaired by Mrs. Edward L. Belkin. Emanuel M. Gilbert, Director oj
Public Affairs, was guest speaker .... WASHINGTON, D. C. . . Unanimous
approval for the revised by-laws of the Womens Connnittee chapter was gained at
a meeting chaired by Mrs. Philip Rosenfeld. president of the group. George Alpert
was guest speaker .... TOLEDO, OHIO . . To organize an Associates chapter,
prominent community leaders held a cocktail party at the Commodore
Perry Hotel, chaired hy Herman Weiner, and co-chaired hy Jerry Baron,
Leonard Fruchtman and Abe J. Levine.

PHILADELPHIA . . This city was a recent stop on the busy itinerary of Professor
Ludwig Lewisohn in his extensive travels for the Women s Committee. He addressed
a dessert luncheon meeting chaired by Mrs. Sidney Krasnoff at the Sylvania Hotel
.... CHICAGO . . The Chicago Chapter oj the Brandeis Associates has scheduled
its second annual dinner jor April at the Standard Club. Herbert Nickelson heads
the chapter .... ATLANTA, GEORGIA . . Resuhs of the annual meeting chaired bv
President Mrs. Harold Marcus showed a new enrollment of 62 annual and 16 life
members .... MANCHESTER, N. H. . . The Currier Gallery of Art was the
scene of the annual spring meeting of the Women's Committee chapter chaired by
Mrs. Fred Bernhard. Many members from other New Hampshire cities joined the
group to hear guest speaker Professor Thomas Savage, who returned by popular
demand after last year's address.

NEW YORK CITY . . Interest in Brandeis has been heightened throughout
the year by a monthly luncheon club for Neiv York friends of Braiuleis
in the liquor, ivines and spirits industry. Under the chairmanship of
Harold L. Renfield of Renfield Importers, Ltd., and Co-chairmen Charles
A. Berns of 21 Brands and Joshua. A. Gollin of Schenley's, the luncheons
have played host to many outstanding speakers .... CANTON, OHIO . . At
a recent luncheon meeting the Brandeis Womens Committee chapter played hostess
to all the Jewish women's groups in that city at which Mrs. Paul Heller, chapter
president, presided .... NEW YORK . . Women's Committee chapters are
joining the journalism circuit in Queens and Manhattan with their individual
chapter publications.

INDIANAPOLIS . . Climaxing a successful membership drive, during which 40
annual and 4 life members were enrolled, the Women's Committee chapter held their
annual meeting at the home of retiring President Mrs. Jack A. Goodman with
Clarence Q. Berger as guest speaker. Mrs. Charles Efroymson was installed as
president .... BROOKLYN . , Women's Committee members assembled at
the East Midivood Jetvish Center recently to hear Dr. Robert Thornton of
the Brandeis faculty and Miss Susan Brandeis, honorary president of the
Women's Committee, speak on behalf of the University. An appeal for
membership was made by Judge Ruth Wurters. Mrs. S. Charles Gardner
is president of the chapter.

ST. LOUIS FAMILY SUPPORTS
SCIENCE RESEARCH WITH LAB

The Frank Mack Research Laboratorj
has been established at Brandeis Univer-
sity in honor of Frank Mack, late St.
Louis philanthropist, by his widow and
children Sol Mack, David Mack, and Dr.
and Mrs. Norman Hankin.

One of the science research laboratories
at the University, the new facility named
for the late St. Louis community leader
will be used for experimental investiga-
tions by advanced students and members
of the faculty. It is located in Sydeman
Hall, new classroom building.

Included among the modern scientific
equipment to be contained in the Frank
Mack Laboratory are a fume hood, vacu-
um distillation equipment, catalytic hy-
drogenation apparatus, and standard
taper class apparatus for synthetic work
in organic chemistry.

CHICAGO WOMEN MEET BRANDEIS PRO-
FESSOR . . . Talking it over with Professor
Ludwig Lewisohn after an open meeting of the
Chicago Womens Committee Chapter are Mrs. ■
Isaac Wagner, chapter vice president, and Mrs.
Maurice Mandel, president (right). Nearly 500
women gathered at Chicago's Congress Hotel fori
the meeting. More than 2600 women are mem-
bers of the Chicago Women's Committee Chapter.

NEW BEDFORD WOMEN CLIMAX
ACTIVE DRIVE FOR BRANDEIS

Featuring a pep-tea for prospective
members in their busy two-week period
of activities to augment support for Bran-
deis, the New Bedford Chapter of the
Women's Committee climaxed their mem-
bership drive with a tea at the Jewish
Community Center.

Over 125 women attended the meeting
addressed by Dr. Robert Thornton, as-
sociate professor of physics. Twenty-eight
annual and three life members were added
to the roster that afternoon.

Elected to head the chapter for the
coming year was Mrs. Harry Zeitz who
presided at the meeting. Other officers
elected were Mmes. Joseph Jaslow and Leon
I. Silverstein, first and second vice presi-
dents who also served as co-chairmen of the
tea; Mrs. Joseph Epstein, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Max Copeland, financial sec-
retary; and Mrs. Louis Narva, treasurer.

NEWS ISSUE

BRANDEIS SENIORS WIN ACCEPTANCE
TO NATION'S LEADING GRAB SCHOOLS

From top colleges and universities
throughout the United States, acceptances
to graduate and professional schools are
being received daily by the members of
:he first graduating class of Brandeis.

Following the approval of Brandeis by
;he Executive Committee of the American
A.ssociation of Law Schools, six major law
schools have admitted Brandeis students.
With several universities yet to be heard
"rem. the following law schools have ac-
epted Brandeis applicants: the University
if Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia,
]ornell. Syracuse, and Boston University.

So far eleven students have been ad-
nitted to medical and dental schools. The
medical schools of Tufts College and Bos-
;on University, and the dental schools of
Tufts, Columbia, and the University of
Pennsylvania have sent acceptances. One
student successfully applied to Columbia
University's School of Optometry; an-
ither will continue her studies next year
it the Simmons College School of Medical
(ocial Work.

iALTIMORE LEADERS COMMENCE
LOCAL DRIVE FOR BRANDEIS

Spearheading a
drive to enroll 225
men for their fos-
ter alumni group,
more than 125
Brandeis Associ-
ates met at the
Woodholme Coun-
try Club in Pikes-
ville, Maryland,
for the first annual dinner of the Balti-
more group. Chairmen of the meeting
were Richard Marcus and Irving Smith.

President Abram L. Sachar addressed
the Baltimore men at the meeting which
apened the campaign for Brandeis.

STATE SENATOR INSTALLS

NEW QUEENS OFFICERS

Celebrating its first birthday, the fast-
growing Queens Chapter of the Brandeis
Women's Committee invited State Senator
Seymour Halpern to preside over the in-
stallation of officers at its meeting at the
Fresh Meadows Inn in Flushing.

George Alpert, Trustee chairman, re-
ported on the progress of the University.

Re-elected president was Mrs. Irving
Kahn; elected with her were Mrs. Richard
G. Haller, Mrs. Seymour Karger. Mrs.
Ben S. Marcus. Mrs. Herbert Wartel. vice
presidents; Mrs. Nathan Seltzer, treas-
urer; Mrs. Bernard Glass, financial secre-
tary; Mrs. Irving Smith, corresponding
secretary; and Mrs. Allan Brosman. re-
cording secretary.

rving Smith

The Business Schools of Harvard. Co-
lumbia, Cornell, and the University of
New Hampshire have replied affirmatively
to a number of Brandeis seniors.

While many graduate schools of arts
and sciences have not yet replied. Prince-
ton has accepted a Brandeis student for
graduate work in political science: Bryn
Mawr has offered an $800 fellowship in
philosophy to an applicant from Brandeis.
One senior has received from both Yale
and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology fellowships carrying a stipend of
$1000 plus tuition expenses, for the study
of economics. The Woodrow Wilson
School of Princeton University also has
accepted a Brandeis applicant, with a
$1600 fellowship.

A fellowship covering tuition and carry-
ing a stipend of $1000 has been offered by
Wayne University in Detroit to a student
to continue work in chemistry. New York
University has accepted a Brandeis senior
for advanced study in biochemistry.

These acceptances of the first graduates
of Brandeis University by graduate
schools of leading educational institutions
of the nation testify cogently to the fact
that four-year-old Brandeis University has
won acceptance into the family of Amer-
ican colleges and universities.

TWO STUDENTS HONORED
FOR PSYCHOLOGY PAPER

Two Brandeis seniors have dis-
covered something new in the field of
psychology. According to Dr. lames
B. Klee. Brandeis lecturer in psychol-
ogy, Leonard Weiner and Herbert
Gross, both of Boston, have developed
a new orientation to the role of ego in
problem solving. Psychologists, say
the students, have neglected to ac-
count for "involvement-of-the-ego" in
problem solving.

As a result of their productive re-
search, the Brandeis students were
selected by the Eastern Colleges Sci-
ence Conference to read a paper on
their study. The joint paper was titled
"A New Approach to Ego Involvement
in Problem Solving".

INDUSTRY LEADERS

SCORE BIG SUCCESS

IN BRANDEIS DANCE

Tubie Resnik; co-chairman of the 1952 Liquor,
Wines, and Spirits Industry Dinner-Dance held
for Brandeis in New York, addresses the audi-
ence of over 1000 men and women who attended
the affair. At right is Co-chairman Harold L.
Renfield. Max Lerner, Brandeis professor of
American civilization and institutions, is seated
at left.

A formal dinner-dance, sponsored by
friends of Brandeis in the Liquor, Wines
and Spirits Industry, drew more than a
thousand men and women to the Grand
Ballroom of New York's Waldorf Astoria
for a gala affair which raised over $85,000
for the University.

Co-chairmen of the dinner-dance were
W. W. Wachtel and Tubie Resnik of
Calvert's; Harold L. Renfield of Renfield
Importers. Ltd.; Victor A. Fischel and
Harold S. Lee of Seagram's; John L.
Liban and David Bunim of Schenley's;
Charles A. Berns of 21 Brands; Morris C.
Alprin, counsel for the Greater New York
Wholesale Liquor Association: and Je-
rome W. Picker. Fronnn & Sichel, who
also served as treasurer of the committee.

Chairman of arrangements for the sec-
ond year was Tubie Resnik. with William
Hodes of Schenley's in charge of co-
ordination and program.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN, MAX LERNER TO LECTURE
IN SPRING ADULT EDUCATION SERIES AT BRANDEIS

Leonard Bernstein, professor of music
and director of the School of Creative
Arts at Brandeis. and Max Lerner. profes-
sor of American civilization, will be the
featured participants in the spring session
of the Institute of Adult Education. These
courses are open to the public.

Professor Bernstein will offer a series
of lectures entitled "Music and People"
which will encompass fo'ir aspects of mu-
sic: "The Language of Music". "You. the

Public". "The Interpretive Mind". "The
Creative Mind". His course will meet on
Tuesday evenings. May 6 to May 27.

"America in a World Framework" will
be the topic of Dr. Lerner's course. In it
he will explore the nature of the American
civilization and the direction of American
policy within the framework of forces and
idea systems in the modern world. Dr.
Lerner's course will meet on Wednesday
evenings. May 14 to June 4.

NEWS ISSUE

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES TO BE HELD JUNE 16
WITH FOSTER ALUMNI MEETINGS FOLLOWING

Completing its first four-year under-
graduate cycle. Brandeis I niversitv will
hold its historv-niaking initial Commence-
ment Exercises Monday. June 16. 1952.
These Exercises will mark the coming of
age of the nations first Jewish-founded
nonsectarian university. With the grant-

FAMED EDUCATOR TO BE
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Dr. Frank Aydelotte. elder statesman of
the pioneers of modern American edu-
cation and one of the foremost educators
in the United States today, will deliver
the principal address at the first Com-
mencement Exercises of Brandeis.

Formerly a professor of English at the
University of Indiana and M. I. T.. the
noted educator was president of Swarth-
more College for nineteen years. He
became the first director of Princeton
University's Institute of Advance Study
in 1939. During World War II, he was
chairman of the committee on scientific
personnel for the governments Office of
Scientific Research and Development.

Dr. Aydelotte is the autht)r and editor
of more than a dozen books and has
contributed numerous articles on English
literature, education and public affairs
to leading periodicals.

ing of degrees to 102 seniors. Brandeis
will take its place in the ranks of the
nation's centers of higher learning.

The University will hold its first Bac-
calaureate Exercises in Nathan Seifer
Hall. Saturday. June 14.

The first senior class will march down
the stately walks of the Library Triangle
June 16. to receive the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. Chairman of the Board of Trus-
tees George Alpert. and President Abram
L. Sachar will present the diplomas. Pro-
fessor Max Lerner. representing the Fac-
ulty Committee on Awards, will present
awards to outstanding students.

Marshal of the Aides for Commence-
ment week will be Harold Sherman Gold-
berg. Osborne Earle. associate professor of
English, as Marshal for the University,
will lead the faculty procession in the
Commencement Exercises. At the head of
the student procession will be Gustav
Ranis, president of the senior class, who
will be Marshal of the students.

Foster .4Iuiiini Plans

The Conmienceinent Exercises will be
preceded on campus by a four-da\ Festi-
val of the Creative Arts, and will be fol-
lowed by meetings of the L niversitys
foster alumni. It is expected that every
State in the I nion will be represented.

Commenvetnpttt Week Calendar

Thursday, June 12, 1952

Openinc Svmposm m of thf. Fkstival of Thk Creativk Arts: Adolph I llman
Amphitheatrf.

Friday. June 13, 1952
Festival Art Showing: Nathan Seifer Hall
Festival Jazz Symposium: Adolph Ullman Amphitheatre
Senior Prosi: Pinebrook Cointry Clib

Saturday, June 14, 1952
Baccalalibe.ate Exercises; Nathax Seifer Hall
Festival Poetry Readixcs; Adolph Ullman Amphitheatre
Festival Theatre Evening: Adolph Ullman Amphitheatre

Sunday, |une 15. 1952
Festival Film Symposrm: Nathan Seifer Hall
Festival Concert; Adolph Ullman Amphitheatre
Senior Class Banquet

Closing Symposium of the Festival of the Creative Arts: Adolph Ullman
Amphitheatre

Monday, June 16, 1952
Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees; President's Office
Commencement Exercises: Library Triangle
First Annual Meeting. Brandeis Alumni Association
Pre-Convention Meeting. National Women's Committee Executive Board
Joint Banquet of the National Women's Committee Conference and the
Second Annual Assembly of the Brandeis Associates: Library Triangle

Tuesday, June 17, 1952

Business Sessions, National Women's Committee Conference; on Campus
Business Sessions of the Second Annual Assembly of the Brandeis Asso-
ciates; on Campus

Wednesday. |une 18, 1952
All Day Business Sessions. National Wcimin's Committee Conference: on Campus