Governor Lehman and the presidents of Columbia University, Harvard, and Union Theological Seminary – Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. James Bryant Conant, and Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin – will be the principal speakers at a series of meetings between Dec. 17 and June 6 designed to honor and evaluate scholarship in the fields of religion and Hebraic learning, it was announced today by the Semi-Centennial Committee of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
More than forty of the leading educators, theologians, and Orientalists of the nation have become members of the academic committee of the program, according to Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Seminary. Many of them will take part in the four conferences of an “Institute of Bible Study” which will be one of the principal events of the semicentennial.
The committee includes Presidents Livingston Farrand of Cornell, Thoma. S. Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, Isaiah Bowman of the Johns Hopkins University and Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore.
The representatives of religious institutions of learning will include Prof. Henry Hyvernat of the Catholic University of America; Prof. S. B. Gavin of the General Theological Seminary; Prof. Duncan B. MacDonald of Hartford Theological Seminary; Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Harvard Divinity School; President Julian Morgenstern and Prof. Jacob Z. Laute bach of Hebrew Union College; President Coffin and Prof. F. J. Foakes Jackson of Union Theological.
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