Brandeis University opened its fourth academic year today when some 250 freshmen registered. The upperclassmen are due here Monday and classes will begin on Wednesday, September 19.
This year the University has added a School of Creative Arts as the fourth curriculum division of the three-year-old Jewish-sponsored non-sectarian university. The school will be under the directorship of the famous American Jewish conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, who has also been named to a professorship in music.
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