Annual Speech Day Observed at Jews College

(J. T. A. Mall Service)

The annual Speech Day of Jews’ College was observed here yesterday. Elkan N. Adler, who presided, said that the whole of his family had been connected with the college since its inception in 1885. Jews’ College had been treated as Cinderella, he said, but he was delighted to see what a high place this institution was now occupying in the minds of British Jewry.

Speaking of the standard of the colleges and yeshivahs in different countries, Mr. Adler said that the yeshivah had come to be of primary importance in keeping the ghetto alive and modern Jewry saw the need of educating its rabbis to be not only talmudists but academists.

Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, said that although they had a very adequate staff, they were still in need of lecturers in Jewish theology and philosoplty of Jewish religion. They were finding it very difficult to fill these positions. Dr. Hertz spoke of the asset that the college possessed in its library which was one of the four largest in Europe.

Professor A. Buechler, the principal, said that if Jews’ College were more fully staffed, they would be in a position to extend their work outside the premises of the college. They could even arrange a series of lectures, on the university standard, to be delivered in the evenings. The staff was often called upon to deliver lectures to outside bodies, but their time was fully occupied by the work of the college and they could not therefore comply with these requests.

Mr. S. Japhet said that Mr. Adler who was the son of the founder of Jews’ College, and himself a pupil of the college, was also a great scholar and traveller of renown.

SENATOR METCALF GIVES $500 TO PALESTINE FUND

A Contribution of $500 to the United Palestine Appeal was made by Senator Jesse H. Metcalf of Rhode Island, according to an announcement issued by Morris Rothenberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Palestine Appeal.

Senator Metcalf’s check was sent to Mrs. Archibald Silverman of Providence, R. I., with whom he has spoken at several United Palestine Appeal banquets in the New England Region.

Commenting on the contribution of Senator Metcalf, who has been prominently identified with support for the rebuilding of Palestine, Mr. Rothenberg characterized it as “a most gratifying sign of interest in the rebuilding of the Jewish Homeland, on the part of so prominent a non-Jewish national leader.”