Dr. Hugo Bergmann, rector of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, addressing the opening session of the university’s board of governors, paid tribute today to Levi Billig, lecturer in Arabic, who was murdered Thursday by Arabs, and two students who died in current disorders in Palestine.
Judge Julian W. Mack, of New York, who presided, eulogized the late Zionist leaders, Nahum Sokolow and David M. Eder, of London, and Solomon Lamport, of New York.
Z. Schocken, treasurer, reported that the university grounds had been enlarged by acquisition of new land on Mount Scopus under a loan of $125,000 to be repaid by the Jewish National Fund.
Describing the functioning of the university, he said certain necessary departments were lacking. He expressed satisfaction with the operation of the student self-government system.
A budget for the 1936-37 school year of £380,000 budget was defrayed by American Jews, it was reported.
It was revealed here that Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the university, cabled universities the world over from Jerusalem protesting against the murder of Mr. Billig. His protest said in part:
“Hebrew University of Jerusalem announces with grief and horror murder at Jerusalem Thursday night of L. Billig, M.A., university lecturer in Arabic literature. His skull was shattered by bullet directed at close range through windows of his study during course of attack by Arab terrorists, and death was instantaneous. Arabic texts, on which he was working, were on table before him.”
A report yesterday in advance of the session disclosed that 700 students were registered at the university during the 1935-1936 school year, as compared with 400 the previous year. Thirty-two per cent of the past year’s enrollment were women.
The sessions are concentrating on financial problems of the university
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