Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Fund for the Republic of the Ford Foundation and one-time Chancellor of the University of Chicago, hailed last night the role of the “Jewish community of the United States which has been the staunchest and most steadfast defender of freedom of inquiry in this country and throughout the world.”
Addressing a dinner of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Hutchins said he wished to pay “tribute” to the Jewish community which in addition to its financial help to institutions of learning everywhere has contributed “deep, characteristic devotion to the true purposes of learning and the pursuit of truth.”
Dr. Hutchins, who received a testimonial volume “The Saga of Jerusalem, the Holy City,” at the function, declared that “one shudders to think what American education would be like without the standards that have been set for us by Jewish scholars, students and benefactors.”
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