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The April issue of More Facts, an “international student service,” of which John G. McNaughton of Montreal is editor, features an article on “Student Life in Jerusalem,” by Eliezer Eliner (Urdang), M. A., a graduate of Hebrew University.

“A fundamental difference,” Mr. Eliner writes, “exists between the life of the Jewish student in Jerusalem and that of his brother Jewish students in other universities of the world. Three factors go to make up this basic dissimilarity: the place, the university, and the student body.”

A student at Hebrew university, the author writes, is distinguished from his brothers abroad by a “feeling of spiritual stability, which in other places is cherished by the farmer whose meadows are his sole sphere in life and in whom a sturdy pride and satisfaction are inspired by the sight of the lush verdancy resulting from ‘the sweat of his brow and the toil of his brow and the toil of his hands.'”

Mr. Eliner describes the students as being for the most part pioneers who work for their livelihood and attend lectures in their leisure hours. “Some,” he says, “have to give up their studies altogether in order to work; others who obtain remittances from their parents cannot forego what is to them the pleasure of engaging in rural labor in the summer recess. Last summer and during the Passover vacations many of the students were recruited to work in the Jewish colonies to relieve a state of under-employment resulting from State-restricted immigration.”