Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was re-elected yesterday president of the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, which concluded its fourth annual session at Columbia University.
During the five-day meeting 200 historians, philosophers, economists, scientists, educators and other scholars discussed the role that scholarship and letters must play in laying the foundations for an enduring peace.
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