Social Service School Holds Examinations for Fellowships

The Training School for Jewish Social Work is holding competitive examinations in twenty-one cities this week for fellowships for the fifteen-month-course which is to begin July 5, 1927, at the school in New York City. The examination was open to college graduates of good standing of accredited colleges.

New York City was represented by candidates from the City College of New York, Hunter College and New York University. Applicants came from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, Smith College, University of Nebraska, University of Wisconsin, Vassar College, University of Manitoba, Harvard, Carroll College, Wisconsin, University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, Radcliffe, University of Southern California, Goucher College, Syracuse, Iowa, Clark, Oregon, Michigan, Yale, McGill, California, Simmons, Johns Hopkins and Ohio.

The examinations are being conducted by accredited representatives in the cities where these institutions are situated. The admissions committee will meet May 26 to make the awards.

Contributions totalling $157,5550, including one of $50 from Governor Smith, toward the $1,500,000 Building Fund of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association were announced Monday by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the Association. The announcement was made during the first of a series of luncheon-report-meetings which are to be held at the Hotel Biltmore headquarters of the Building Fund drive. This brings the total of subscriptions already announced up to $312,000.

The largest contribution announced was $50,000 from Frederick Brown, Jerome J. Hanauer, of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., gave $30,000, and a similar sum was given by Arthur Lehman, of the banking firm of Lehman Brothers; $15,000 each were reported from Simon W. Straus and Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Norman; $10,000 from the Hofheimer Foundation and $7,500 from Henry M. Toch.