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"One of the greatest needs of both Jews and gentiles is to understand the so-called Jewish question and to meet it, not in terms of ignorance and passion and prejudice, but in terms of genuine knowledge and devotion to the highest principles of freedom and democracy," Henry Hurwitz, Chancellor of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association, declared yesterday at a meeting of the Washington Square College Menorah Society of New York University.
"In times of crisis like the present the fundamental purpose of a university stands out in higher relief than ever," he said. "That purpose is to advance scientific impartial knowledge and to bring the light of objective intelligence to illumine all the controversies of the hour."
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