Sir Philip Joseph Hertog, president of the English Friends of the Hebrew University and prominent educator; Louis Ginsberg, professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, and Professor Redcliffe Salaman, professor of agriculture at the University of Cambridge have been appointed by the board of governors of the Hebrew University to go to Palestine for the “purpose of surveying the actual position of the Hebrew University and formulating plans for its future development, especially with the view of including a number of Jewish scholars dismissed from German universities.”
It was learned that this commission was appointed as a result of an understanding with Professor Albert Einstein, who was reported to have been dissatisfied with the present structure of the Hebrew University.
Professor Einstein’s future relations with the Hebrew University, it was learned, are largely dependent on the investigation to be made by the special commission and the reforms to be proposed by it, on which the board of governors of the Hebrew University will act.
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