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...Yeshiva University...
...simpler discovery made a long time ago: the moment that decided his future as a scientist. It was, he said, the sight of an ordinary compass at the age of five. One of his birthday presents, another honor: the new $10 million medical school to be built by Yeshiva University in The Bronx will be called the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
...mark the third case of an infectious disease in a community, but diphtheria rated a shofar warning for the very first case. Few diseases have been so dreaded as diphtheria, partly because it is especially deadly for children in the tender two-to-five age bracket. Last week Yeshiva University in New York City held a special convocation to give an honorary degree to a physician who had done much to take the dread out of diphtheria: Bela Schick, the little-known man behind the famous Schick test...
...thousands of children in Vienna and (since 1923) in New York City, still commutes by subway from his Manhattan home for office hours in Brooklyn. More than the medals he has received he treasures a thank-you book signed in 1933 by a million New York City schoolchildren. Yeshiva's new million-dollar department of pediatrics is to be named for Dr. Schick. His most enduring monument: the test which helps to save lives...
...from the University of Pennsylvania; Sherman L. Davis of Buffalo, a historian, who received his A.B. in 1946 and his A.M. in 1947 from the University of Buffalo; Allen Mandelbaum of New York City, a history and English scholar, who received his A.B. from Yeshiva University in 1945 and his A.M. from Columbia in 1946; and Richard P. Smith of Garland, Utah, a chemist, who received his A.B. from the University of Utah...