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Murphy warned that "you cannot build a society on feeling alone. Only a proper blend of reason, action and feeling will build a better world." At Brandeis, retiring President Abram Sachar urged students to develop a "special kind of quiet courage: not to be driven into impulsive or capricious action, and to learn to live with crisis, since that is the only way you will live through it." Students worldwide, he said, "have been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious...
...20th year as the first president of Brandeis University, Abram L. Sachar, 68, announced last week that he plans to retire as soon as a successor can be found. A passionate, strong-willed administrator whose phrasemaking flair and public charm raised $160 million to build the school from scratch, Sachar told the Brandeis trustees that the university needs a "reappraisal that new leadership can provide." The board voted to create for Sachar the advisory post of chancellor, in which he will continue to exercise his fund-raising talents. Sachar insists that his new job "will not impinge on the authority...
...Sachar, a historian of Judaism who formerly taught at the University of Illinois, took over a defunct medical-school campus in Waltham, Mass., in 1948 and personally pushed Brandeis into the top score or so of U.S. private universities. He did so largely by courting Jewish philanthropists, even while insisting, not quite accurately, that Brandeis is "no more Jewish than Princeton is Presbyterian." Although the university has no administrative ties with any of Judaism's religious organizations, the student body, which now numbers 2,460, more than a fourth of them in graduate work, is still about 70% Jewish...
...Sachar's intense concern about every detail of the university's development has been resented by some restive students and professors, who regard him as an academic dictator. Sachar, who has never been known to walk away from a fight, blandly dismisses such criticism as "the chastisements of love." An academic presidency, he says, "is not a popularity contest-I believe in strength in governing a university." In the opinion of his peers, Sachar has not only been strong himself but has also provided most of the strength of Brandeis...
...Sachar pledged that he would, for the present, withstand efforts to further expand graduate study at Brandeis...