Adopting the procedure which has been in effect at the leading metropolitan colleges—Columbia, New York University and City College—Yeshiva College is accepting applications for the new semester beginning February, 1935.
Until now a student at Yeshiva, the only college of liberal arts and sciences under Jewish supervision in the United States, has not been permitted to register in midyear. The college semester has begun in September. Under the new ruling students registering for regular college work in the February semester will be given an opportunity to carry on their first-year studies through the Summer session and to enroll as sophomores in September, 1935, thereby gaining a half year.
AUTHORIZED BY STATE
This new organization of the college work has been arranged with the authority of the State University and provides a Summer session for the students.
Among the new courses to be innovated with the February term is a semester group in the life, work and influence of Maimonides, Jewish philosopher and savant, the 800th anniversary of whose birth will be honored by the Spanish government. This class will be conducted by Dr. Solomon Zeitlin, lecturer in history at Yeshiva College.
Applications for registration and inquiries, should be addressed to the Dean, Yeshiva College, Amsterdam avenue at 186th street, New York City.
HEBREW IN HIGH SCHOOLS
Because of the great interest evinced by Jewish boys and girls in many high schools, the Board of Education has approved a course in Hebrew at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. This course was instituted by Dr. Elias Lieberman, the principal of the school, in 1928 as an honors course. However, since that time this course has been opened to all students and can be substituted for a foreign language.
With the adoption of such courses in Hebrew, the language, culture and history of the Jewish race, the State University, through its Regents Board, officially recognized the Hebrew language. Regular Regents’ examinations are given in that course and colleges and universities accept credits thus earned as college entrance points.
Seward Park High School in Manhattan was the second school to initiate such courses. Its success at the New York high school encouraged Dr. Gabriel Mason, principal of Abraham Lincoln High School in Coney Island, to innovate special courses in Hebrew under the auspices of the foreign language department.
It is intimated at the Board of Education that courses in Hebrew will be instituted at each school where a sufficient number of students express a desire to study it.
The school editor will gladly answer questions from Bulletin readers in reference to Jewish education.
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