Miss Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and head of the Youth Aliyah (which arranges immigration of children from Europe to Palestine) was the recipient here last night of a unique honor, when Boston University, as part of its Founder’s Day Institute on Post-War Problems, conferred the degree of Doctor of Humanities on her, via a two-way broadcast between this city and Jerusalem, where she now resides.
This is the first time that Boston University, which has never conferred a degree in absentia, agreed to radio broadcast attendance instead of the actual presence of the person being honored. Mrs. Louis Levin, seventy-year old sister of Miss Szold, came from Baltimore to receive the degree in her sister’s name.
Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, president of Boston University, who conferred the degree in his part of the broadcast beamed toward Jerusalem said Miss Szold was to be honored as “a mother in Israel who through organizing and directing the Youth Aliyah had become a joyful mother of ten thousand motherless children.” In his citation Dr. Marsh emphasized that Miss Szold was “distinguished for social settlement work in America and in Palestine” and that she was “a scholar, classicist, journalist and accomplisher of unparallel reclamation work in Palestine.”
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