Henry A. Dix, well known Jewish philanthropist, contributed $50,000 thru the United Palestine Appeal as a trust fund for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, according to an announcement made yesterday by Dr. Israel Goldstein, Rabbi of Temple B’nai Jeshurun and Chairman of the West Side Division of the Appeal.
Mr. Dix, upon retiring three years ago, turned his $1,000,000 dress manufacturing business over to his employees. Since then he has been devoting himself actively to various philanthropic movements.
“The Hebrew University, in my opinion, is the most important phase of the rebuilding of Palestine as the Jewish Homeland,” Mr. Dix stated in making his $50,000 contribution, “because the University stands as a symbol of the entire movement, typifying the great cultural contribution that the Jews will again give to the world from Palestine.
“The development of agriculture in Palestine, bringing the Jews of the Ghettos of Eastern Europe back to the soil, which is already proceeding so successfully, and the stimulation of business and industry in the cities, are vital points in the restoration of the Holy Land. But even more important than these fundamental colonization projects is the building of a great cultural center, as the Hebrew University is destined to be, linking the civilizations of the East and the West, where the world’s most famous Jewish scholars will gather to devote themselves to the untrammelled pursuit of truth in all the sciences and arts.”
BREVITIES
A Farewell Tea in honor of Mrs. Sari Berger, who is returning to Palestine, was given by the Jewish National Fund Council of Hadassah, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, Mrs. De Sola Pool, Miss Susan Brandeis and Dr. Nadia Stein addressed the gathering.
The Hakoah, Jewish soccer team, of Vienna, was held to a 0-0 tie by the City College soccer club at Jasper Oral.
The visitors’ forward wall was perfect. Their pass work could not be improved upon, but they failed to score on account of the fine defensive work of the goal minder, Goldberg. Neufeld and Captain Hauseler were the outstanding men on the Hakoah team.
State Senator Harry O. Levin of Mary-land has been elected chairman of the State Council of the American Legislators’ Association, which has headquarters in Denver.
The Council of Columbia University announced the winners of seventy-eight fellowships and scholarships for the ensuing year.
Among those who received awards are: Robert E. Eckstein of New York, Harvard University. 1920; economics; Moses Hadas of New York, Emory University, 1922; Drisler Fellowship. Greek and Latin; Bernard B. Coyne. Wallace. Idaho, Harvard University, 1919. Columbia University 1921. Du Pont Fellowship chemistry; Frederick G. Hess, Washington, Pa., Washington and Jefferson, 1923, Ferguson Fellowship, organic chemistry; Miriam B. Huber, Lynchburg, Tenn., Columbia University, 1925, Grace H. Dodge Fellowship; Blanche Schnitzer, New York City, Wellesley College, Columbia University, economics; David Zablodowsky, New York, Columbia University, 1925, philosophy.
CORRECTION
In yesterday’s Bulletin a headline was erroneously given as: Missionaries Plan World Wide Attack on Zionism. It should have been Missionaries Plan World Wide Attack on Judaism.
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