Word: sachar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the fund-raising abilities of President Abram L. Sacher, and through such devices as foster alumni, money was gathered. Through high salaries and freedom from administrative burdens, an eminent faculty was assembled. Now, as the University concludes its eighth year, thousands of benefactors, hundreds of alumni, and Sachar and his staff can look back on a noteworthy achievement in American education and a milestone in the history of American Jewry...
...impetus has been one of gratitude, not of defensive obligation. "After all," Sachar explains, "the Jewish community always chose to make its great gifts to existing institutions" with such happy results as Harvard's Littauer School of Public Administration...
...Castle and the miscellaneous buildings were the entire setting. Fortunately, the founders agreed on Sachar--a genial, stocky man with a remarkable ability to raise funds--for the presidency. Educated at Washington University, Harvard, and Cambridge, Sachar had taught history at the University of Illinois, and had written a "History of the Jews," which has gone through 14 editions. He also had gained an excellent administrative background by serving as president of the National Hillel Foundation for 15 years...
More important was the educational philosophy Sachar brought to the post. He could have taken the natural conservative course of gradual growth--both in size and quality. Instead, he chose to set high standards immediately...
...success of such a philosophy, of course, depends on the money with which to implement it. Sachar had the good sense to realize that he could not count on support simply because of a vague sympathy by Jews for a Jewish undertaking. It is a truism about American Jewry that its members dun each other for a perplexing number of causes. Instead, Sachar realized that the University's principles, if understood by potential benefactors, could lead to more certain bases of support...