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Dr. Bade Heads Palestine Institute on Pacific Coast

April 25, 1928
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(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Dr. William Frederick Bade. world famous archeologist, who returned last year from his second expedition to Palestine, where he unearthed an ancient city believed to be the Mizpah of Benjamin mentioned in the Old Testament, has been appointed director of the Palestine Institute, a new feature of the Pacific School of Religion in this city. A new building will be erected and the institute will house not only the hundreds of rare archeological specimens brought back by Dr. Bade. but will be a teaching museum. where the specimens will be used for research and instruction.

Dr. Bade is planning to return to Palestine. where he will complete the work he began on his two previous expeditions in 1925 and 1927. of uncovering the buried city at Tell-en-Nasbeh, seven miles north of Jerusalem.

Among the twenty-seven students on the highest scholarship list at Harvard College are the following Jewish students: J. M. Alper of New York City. Charles Danzing of Newark. William Finkelstein of Waterbury. Conn. Martin Freedman of Springfield. Mass., Sael Goldwasser of Cambridge. Mass., Abraham Grossman of Beverly. Mass. Z. I. Mosesson of Uniontown. Pa., Saul Roseneweig. of Malden. Mass., and W. V. Strauss of Cincinnatti. O.

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