A plea to the eight graduates of the Jewish Theological Seminary to be in the forefront of the battle against neo-paganism, modern political dictatorship and economic oppression is made in the baccalaureate sermon of Rabbi Herman Abramewitz, of Montreal, prepared for delivery Saturday at the Seminary Synagogue.
The graduates will be ordained as rabbis Sunday afternoon at the fiftieth convocation exercises at the Seminary. Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Seminary, will confer the rabbinical degrees on them, and also twelve honorary degrees and one Doctorate of Hebrew Letters in behalf of the rabbinical college, and eighteen bachelor’s degrees and twenty-one certificates and professional diplomas in behalf of the Teachers’ Institute, the College of Jewish Studies and the Israel Friedlander Extension Classes.
The following honorary degrees will be conferred: Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary, Doctor of Sacred Theology; Rabbi Louis M. Epstein, of Boston, Doctor of Divinity, and Doctorates of Hebrew Letters to Dr. Adolph Bucchlor, principal of Jews College, London; Dr. Israel Efros, University of Buffalo; Dr. Ismar Elbogen, of Berlin; Judge Irving Lohman, Lucius Nathan Littaucr, Dr. Israel Levi, Grand Rabbi of the Central Consistory of Israelites of France; Dr. Duncan Black MacDonald, Hartford Theological Seminary; Dr. Moses Schorr, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw; Dr. Harry Austrian Wolfson, of Harvard; and Dr. Julian Morgenstern, president of the Hebrew Union College.
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