Seventy students attended the courses at Dropsie College, including 20 women.
The fellows for the year 1929-1930 are as follows:
Biblical Department: Mayer Sulzberger Fellow: Leon J. Liebreich, B. A. (C. C. N. Y.) : M. A. (Columbia); Pinchas Romanoff (Gymnasium, Wilna; University of Paris; Hebrew University, Jerusalem). Rabbinical Department: Zalman Slesinger, B. A. (N. Y. U.); Frank Zimmerman. B. A. (C. C. N. Y.) Historical Department: Oscar S. Straus Fellow: Michael M. Zarchin, M. S. (University of California.)
The autumn term will begin October 1, 1929.
The extension courses heretofore given in the evening mainly for the benefit of the students of Graz College have been discontinued in view of the increase of the faculty of that college.
In the library there are recorded a total of 36,658 volumes.
The library now includes about 450 fragments from the Cairo Genizah, in Hebrew and Arabic; 169 Oriental manuscripts (in Arabic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Samaritan. Coptic. Persian, Sanscrit and Turkish); a few fragments of Coptic Papyri; 30 Incunabula; and 257 sixteenth century books.
The college also possesses the collection of Judge Sulzberger, composed mostly of Cuneiform tablets and Assyrian seals, and a collection of the objects secured by Doctor Ephraim A. Speiser in the excavation of the mound of Gawra, near Baghdad, undertaken under the auspices of the college.
During the year a bequest in the amount of $500 was received from the late Doctor I. M. Casanowicz, who for many years was connected with the United States National Museum.
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