A Jewish group of citizens is interested in taking over Middlesex College, it was disclosed here yesterday at a hearing before the legislative committee on education. The college has been involved in a long controversy as to its status as an approved medical school.
Senator Edward M. Rowe of Cambridge, who is urging the revocation of the institution’s charter, stated that it was his understanding that “the Zionists were interested in taking over Middlesex College.” Isador Muchnick, a member of the Boston City Council, who represented the college, stated that it is true that a group of Jewish citizens are considering taking over the institution, but it was not necessarily a Zionist group or that it was “a Zionist venture.”
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