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...Saarinen once described as "Mexican Ivanhoe") and a few other buildings that had belonged to the defunct Middlesex University Medical School. At first the founders hoped that Albert Einstein would consent to take over the presidency. But when Einstein declined, they hit upon the happy choice of Historian Abram Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission...
...genial, rotund man of 57, Sachar has been able to attract both brains and money to his campus. Though the university had no alumni until 1952, groups of "foster alumni" sprang up in dozens of cities across the U.S., gave to the new university as generously as if it had been their own alma mater. Gradually the faculty grew to 160, the student body to 1,070, the annual budget to nearly $3,000,000. Around the great castle ultramodern buildings arose, including three separate chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
...James M. Landis, former dean of the Law School, received a Brandeis medallion in Washington yesterday as part of the Lous D. Brandeis centennial observance. Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis University, made the presentation...
...school frankly admits to eclecticism. Borrowing is only a sensible way to achieve quality. "After all, we would be foolish not to try to learn from the experience of older, larger schools," Sachar believes...
...Sachar has steadfastly refused, however. The stated reason is that if there is to be a medical school, it must be a good one, and that the thirty or forty million dollars necessary for a good medical school are not available...