The Hebrew University, only eleven years old, is growing rapidly to the point where an academic city atop Mount Scopub is being planned. A town plan has already been drawn up under supervision of the university authorities.
Meanwhile, the 200-acre grounds have been found too meager for the institution’s expanding needs and its holdings have been increased, according to Zalman Schocken, chairman of the executive, largely through the cooperation of the Jewish National Fund.
A plot of land has been acquired between the present site and the projected Hadassah-Rothschild-University Medical Centre to allow for growth of the university in the next twenty years. About $75,000 has been invested in new buildings in the past year.
Congestion at the university will be relieved during the coming year, it was announced, by the opening of a new lecture-room building founded with funds donated by the late Solomon Rosenbloom, Pittsburgh merchant and philanthropist.
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