Funeral services were held here today for Dr. Bernard Floch, professor of Latin and Greek at Yeshiva University. He was 73 years old. A graduate of the University of Vienna, he was assistant professor of classical languages at that institution for 26 years prior to coming to this country in 1940 to join the Yeshiva faculty, from which he retired in 1956.
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