Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard College Astronomical Observatory and Dr. Karl Compton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be among the speakers to welcome Professor Albert Einstein at the Hotel Commodore on March 15th, according to Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, President of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. Mr. James Marshall, and Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, Director of Beth Israel Hospital and Chairman of the American Jewish Physicians Committee, will also address the dinner, at which a thousand friends and admirers of Dr. Einstein are expected to be present. Mr. Sol M. Stroock, Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Theological Seminary will preside.
Dr. Rosenbach, President of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, stated that Dr. Einstein consented to appear at the dinner to be given in his honor only on condition that the proceeds might be devoted to institutions in which he is interested.
“The esteem in which Dr. Einstein is held”, declared Dr. Rosenbach, “is indicated by the many telegrams and letters received by the American office of the Hebrew University, congratulating us on the privilege of being able to bid ‘hail and farewell’, to the distinguished man who is leaving us”.
Dr. James W. Alexander, Dr. L. P. Eisenhart and Dr. Oswald Veblen who will be associates on the faculty of the new Institute for Advanced Education with Dr. Einstein, have been invited as the guests of Mr. Felix M. Warburg to attend the dinner. Mr. Warburg has also invited the heads of various foundations in New York, including Dr. Max Mason, President of the Rockefeller Foundation; Dr. Ludwig Kast. President of Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation; Dr. C. Merriam, Director of the Carnegie Institute of Washington; Henry A. Moe, Director of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; F. A. Collins, Director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation.
The addresses by Dr. Einstein and other speakers will be broadcast on a coast to coast hook-up through the National Broadcasting Company. The dinner to Dr. Einstein is part of a nation-wide celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Hebrew University which was formally opened in April 1925 by the late Earl of Balfour.
Among the academic members of the dinner committee are Dr. John Grier Hibben, President Emeritus of Princeton University; Dr. Mary E. Wooley, President of Mt. Holyoke College; Chancellor Emeritus Elmer Elsworth Brown of New York University; Dr. John Dewey of Columbia University. Dr. Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture Society; Dr. Abraham Flexner, Director of the Institute for Advanced Education; Dr. George R. Ryan, President of the Board of Education.
Leaders in philanthropic work, writers and artists who will join in paying tribute to Dr. Einstein include Oswald Garrison Villard, Editor of the Nation; Joseph Wood Krutch, Simeon Strunsky, Arthur Hopkins, Miss Irene Lewisohn, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Miss Fannie Hurst, Dr. Waldo G. Leland, Head of the Council of Learned Societies; Dr. Florence R. Sabin, of the Rockefeller Institute; Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic.
Among those who have taken tables for the dinner to Dr. Einstein are Mr. and Mrs. Warburg, Mrs. Caspar Whitney, Mrs. Sol Rosenbloom, Mrs. James Lee Laidlow, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Blumenthal, Mr. Simon Bergman, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jonas, Mr. Maurice Wertheim, Mr. Arthur M. Lamport, Mr. Aaron E. Norman, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Lewisohn.
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