"Darling Baby"

Most of the country's oldest colleges, e.g., Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, were started by churchmen. Last week Physicist Albert Einstein and other American Jews founded a nonsectarian liberal arts university in Massachusetts, the first sponsored by Jews outside Palestine.*

A new organization called the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc. plans to raise $6 million, mostly from Jews, to endow the university. It has already acquired the campus of tiny Middlesex University (enrollment: 150) in the watchmaking town of Waltham, Mass., will become the 15th college within a 30-mile radius of Boston.

Middlesex U. has had tough sledding in recent years; its medical graduates could not compete with the crack schools around it. It will close when Einstein's university opens in October 1947.

No name for the new university has been chosen yet, but Brandeis U. (in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice) has a running start. One of the new university's sponsors: Massachusetts' Governor Maurice J. Tobin, a Roman Catholic. Professor Einstein intends to remain on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. But he calls the new school his "darling baby," plans to help choose its chancellor, faculty and courses. Said he last week: "I would do anything in my power to help. ... It would always be near to my heart."

*Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, has been teaching the liberal arts to all faiths and races since 1925. Manhattan's Yeshiva University primarily trains rabbis, also has liberal arts courses for Jewish students.

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