A group of 22 students from 17 American colleges and universities left New York today for one year of study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. They will take part in a program of study specifically designed for American college students who will receive credit towards their degrees from their home colleges for the work taken at the Hebrew University. This program was initiated by the American Friends of the Hebrew University.
At a reception given the students at Hebrew University House, they were welcomed by Dr. George S. Wise, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University. Professor Oscar I. Janowsky, chairman of the academic council of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, who has guided the program, told the students that they were bringing to Israel what was best in American Jewry. By their devotion to studies, they would, on their return to their colleges and universities, be able to increase mutual feelings of esteem and good will between the students and faculties of the Hebrew University and those of their own academic institutions. Prof. Janowsky emphasized.
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