Nearly $1,000,000 was pledged here this evening at a dinner attended by Los Angeles Jewish communal leaders for the creation of a West Coast branch of Yeshiva University of New York. Heading the list of contributors was Samuel A. Fryer who pledged $250,000. A $2,000,000 goal has been set for the erection of the liberal arts university in this city.
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, who was guest speaker at the event, hailed the establishment of the university as “an act of patriotism” as great as any on the military field. “You are to be congratulated for creating an institution for the liberal arts. Technical and scientific education, good as they are, are not fully complete without the humanities. We saw that in Nazi Germany,” he declared.
Rep. James Roosevelt, another guest at the dinner, brought greetings from President Johnson, congratulating Yeshiva University on its new enterprise.
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