Construction of an agricultural college has been started at Rehoboth, Palestine, it was announced today by the American Friends of the Hebrew University. The beginning of work on the college, which will be part of the Hebrew University, was reported to the Friends in a cable from Jerusalem by Salmann Schocken, chairman of the university’s executive council.
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