Word: touro
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...Jewish college is to be started at Newport, R. I., to be called Touro College. Many of the leading Jewish clergymen have promised their active co-operation in furthering the interests of the school and its success is hardly problematical. The complaint has been that Jewish children sent to Christian colleges or convent schools grow up neither Jews nor Christians, and the object of the proposed school is to furnish an education in which culture and Jewish sentiment will be combined, as has been done successfully in many noted instances in Europe...