Plan Agricultural School for Hebrew University Under Direction of Dr. Weizmann

The Board of Governors of the Hebrew University, of which Dr. Chaim Weizmann is the president, concluded its two day sessions here today with the announcement of a plan to establish a School for Agriculture.

The Agricultural School is to be connected with the Hebrew University and the Agricultural Experiment Station conducted by the Jewish Agency and is to be under the direction of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.

The Board accepted the offer of Sir Percival David of London to endow for a period of eight years a chair for art and archaeology in the Near East, which is to be named for Sir Sasoon David, his father. A suitable candidate for the chair has already been selected, it was stated.

A Committee has been named to select a site for a hospital to be connected with the University, and early building operations are awaited, it was reported.

Ways and means of securing an income for the University outside of the United States which has carried practically the whole burden of the budget, were discussed.

Despite the economic crisis no damaging economies have been effected at the University, it was stated.

The budget of £37,700 adopted is designed to maintain the existing services. This hopeful policy and also the plan for an agricultural school connected with the University as well as the University Hospital projected have been made possible largely through the services of Dr. Nathan Ratnoff of New York, Chairman of the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, who is also a member of the board, the sessions were informed.