A total of $102,500 in scholarship funds was raised last night at Yeshiva University’s twenty-sixth Scholarship Fund dinner at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. The University needs $448,700 this academic year to assist 1,549 students.
Governor-elect Averell Harriman and Mayor Robert F. Wagner were the principal speakers. Other participants in the program included Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University; Charles H. Silver, a member of New York City’s Board of Education and a trustee of the University, and Max J. Etra, chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees.
Women now comprise 25 percent of the student body at Yeshiva University, it was reported by Dr. Belkin. Total enrollment at the University is 2,672 students.
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