Jewish Daily Bulletin
“Nothing is so chilling to the ardor of a scholar than to have labored for years upon a piece of work and then find that he has no means to give it to the world and no established institution to aid him to that end,” Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, declared last night at the celebration of Founders’ Day of the college.
Deploring the lack of funds available for the encouragement of higher Jewish learning in this country, Dr. Adler said: “I have frequently pointed out and cannot reiterate it too often that this college is in need of a considerable, not a very large, publication fund. This would make possible the prompt publication of these works. This is at the moment our most urgent need.
“While the Jews of America have up to the present time made their impress through a few individuals, through our economic independence and through really notable acts of philanthropy, these are achievements that any body of people can attain, given the encouragement, intelligence and good heartedness we have. I feel it to be incumbent upon us to make an effort to increase our share in the work of rescarch by which all the buried treasures of our literature and of our history should be brought to light and made available to all men who would read them. Nothing short of this would seem to be our duty.”
Dr. Adler related the story of a scholar who came to see him recently and told him he had been engaged for eleven years on a piece of work and now that it was finished, he was undecided whether to burn it or throw it away. Important as this work was, Dr. Adler was unable to give the scholar any assistance due to lack of funds.
Dr. Solomon Grayzel, a graduate of the college who recently returned from a tour through Europe. narrated his unpressions of the libraries of Europe which he visited,
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon the following at the exercises last night: Zvi Cohen, graduate of the Lodz Gymnasium; Abraham Handelman who holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Drake University; Joseph Levitsky, B. S. of Temple University; Albert Akiba Ruskia, M. A. Harvard; Pincus Schub, M. A. Clark University, and Baruch Weitzel, graduate of the Lida Gymnasium.
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