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...going to make the mistake of land constriction," Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis says. "We want an organic campus for our university which will include nine graduate schools and 2000 students by 1960." These are ambitious plans for a two-year-old institution, which started with a few run-down buildings and the purpose of making a corporate contribution to American higher learning on the part of the country's Jewish community...
...year the trustees set out to elect a president of the University, Einstein supported Harold Laski, professor at the London School of Economics. But the board desired an American educator and Einstein, displeased, dropped his name from the list of the school's supporters. In 1948 the Board elected Sachar as president of Brandeis. Then retired, Sachar had been an important educator--a recipient of Cambridge University's first Ph.D. degree--and for 14 years the head of Hillel Foundations...
When 107 first-year students arrived in the fall of 1948, they found that, so far as educational policy went, Brandeis was little different from other U. S. colleges. Sachar explains that the University intends to follow traditional lines, at least for the present...
...President Sachar, such projects are only the beginning. By 1952 he hopes to have at least 750 students, might even make a start toward a $20 million medical school. "We're committed to a program," says he. "We have got to show what...
...freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach his courses, President Sachar has assembled a faculty of 30 this year (up from 14 in 1948), including such lights as Novelist-Critic Ludwig Lewisohn and column-writing Political Scientist Max Lerner. Says Sachar: "We want to make certain of having some star in each area. I tell students, 'Don't take...