The New York American carried the following editorial on the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew University in Palestine:
Each successive year of the decade has brought some notable addition to what is becoming one of the world’s remarkable foundations of higher learning—in 1926 the beginning of the Einstein Institutes of Mathematics and of Physics, in 1928 establishment of the Faculty of Humanities, and so on. In 1933 the first group of exiled German professors was added to the faculty.
Last year the cornerstone of the University Hospital was laid, the first step toward a Medical Centre.
As a symbol of the Jewish tradition of the advancement of Palestine as a national home and of the future of the University as a contributing institution in the progress of civilization, this anniversary is notable.
Fittingly, leaders in science and education throughout the world are joining in the observance. It is especially appropriate that American participation should be made notable as well as helpful.
THE ALGIERS PROBE BY M. REGNIER
The London Times prints the following editorial on the trip of investigation made by M. Regnier, the French Minister of the Interior, to Algeria:
The attacks on the Jews of Constantine and Ain Beida last August have been followed by a series of disturbances. Riots at Ain Setif, when a police barrack was at Sidi-bel-Abbas, Mostaganem, and Algiers have alarmed the French government, and explain M. Regnier’s investigation. His visit has indeed been criticized by some French politicians on the ground “of its psychological effect on the Moslem population”—in plain English “because it will put ideas into the natives’ heads.” M. Regnier however is clearly not afraid of “ideas.”
THE BIRD COLLECTION OF LORD ROTHSCHILD
The London Daily Express, comments as follows on Lord Rothschild’s famous collection of birds:
Sadly must Lord Rothschild have seen that his collection of 280,000 birds was being rehoused in New York. Son, grandson, nephew of millionaires, he was never excessively rich himself. Zoology and ornithology appealed to him more than finance.
The bird-collection was chief treasure of his house at Tring. He sold it in 1932.
Burly, bearded, deaf, a bachelor, Lord Rothschild has taken little part in public life, and then only from a sense of duty to help his fellow Jews.
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