Nearly $1,000,000 has already been contributed to Brandeis University, the first Jewish-sponsored secular university in America, which will open in the fall of 1948, it was revealed here today by George Alpert, chairman of the board of trustees. The drive for $15,000,000 for the university has not yet been inaugurated, Alpert added.
Alpert disclosed that several hundred applications have already been received from students all over the country. The university will commence its activities with a core of 1,000 students in a liberal arts college. He said that an educational advisory committee is being formed to choose a president, and expressed the hope that one would be named in the near future.
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