The Hebrew Teachers College will celebrate its Bar Mitzvah year tonight (Sunday) at the college library with a banquet. Prof. Nathan Isaacs of Harvard University, president of the Bureau of Jewish Education, will be toast-master. Dr. Nisson Touroff, the first dean of the Hebrew Teachers College, will deliver the main address.
The college was organized in 1921 by the Bureau of Jewish Education and has been supported ever since by the Associated Jewish Philanthropies. Louis Hurwich is acting dean.
Other members of the faculty are Jacob Newman, Israel Pollack, Benjamin Shevach, Dr. E. Silberschlag, and Jochanan Twersky. There is a board of trustees of twenty-four. A. S. Hirshberg is president, Judge J. J. Kaplan vice-president, Morris Morse treasurer, and Judge Lewis Goldberg, secretary.
In 1927 the college was given the power to grant the degrees of bachelor, master and doctor of Jewish education, Hebrew literature, and Hebrew laws. There is a daily attendance of 181 students.
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