A gift of $50,000 to Yeshiva University’s endowment fund from Morris Morgenstern, to be used for a public award for an outstanding personality, was announced here last night by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva, at the institution’s closing event of its Dedication Week.
Vice-President Alben W. Barkley was the principal speaker at a banquet arrange in behalf of Yeshiva which was held at the Waldorf -Astoria. Dr. Belkin revealed that Yeshiva’s $7,500,000 expansion program envisaged an enrollment of 5,000 students as compared with the 1,500 now attending.
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