A “Louisville Society of Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine” was organized here, with Grover G. Sales as chairman. The purpose of the society, it was explained by Mr. Sales, is to enlist all those who may be interested in helping in the upbuilding of this university.
The Louisville society was organized at the request of the American Advisory Committee of the university, of which Felix M. Warburg is chairman.
“The local demand for a university in Palestine is insistent,” said James Marshall, chairman of the New York Society of Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine, in a radio address delivered over WEAF. “Thousands of children are growing up in the land with Hebrew as their native tongue,” he said. “Most of these young people will want and deserve higher education, for the Jews have always been a people of the Book. Furthermore, the Jews who have benefited for centuries from the universities of the western world, owe to the world in return the tribute of a place of higher learning.” Mr. Marshall declared in an address given as part of the nation-wide celebration of the fourth anniversary of the Hebrew University.
“It has been the function of the Jew throughout his history,” continued Mr. Marshall, “to be the interpreter and mediator among groups and people. There is now a great opportunity in Palestine to translate East to West and West to East, and the university on Mount Scopus is the key to the translation.”
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