The growth of Yeshiva University, in New York, over the past two decades, from an enrolment of 850 students to 5,200, with an increase in faculty members from 94 to 1,200, was described here tonight as a “remarkable achievement” credited to Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of the institution. Dr. Belkin was the guest of honor at a reception tendered him here by several hundred national and Florida leaders participating in a week-long series of events centered about Yeshiva’s $30,000,000 development program.
The number of constituent schools of the university, it was pointed out, has grown in the 20 years from four to 17; the budget has increased by 400 percent from $444,000 to 519,000,000; and the physical plant has developed from one building to four major teaching centers valued at $31,000,000.
Addresses on the university’s growth and plans for the future were delivered by Max J. Etra, chairman of the university’s board of trustees; Abraham Borman, of Detroit; Meyer Gassner, of Toronto; and Dr. Marcus D. kogel, dean of Yeshiva’s Einstein College of Medicine; United States Senator Kenneth B. Keating, New York Republican, also spoke.
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