Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MASMID HE Yeshiva College dedicates itself If to the education of selected groups 9 j of Jewish young men. It aims to ■ educate liberally as well as Jewishly, young men who have already been imbued with the spirit and sanctity of the Torah and its teachings, and who consider the under- standing of the culture and the faith of historic Judaism an essential part of their education to be acquired during their school years. It seeks to strengthen in the minds of its students this abiding consciousness of the high ideals and the spiritual heritage of the Jewish people, and to develop intellect and character through them and the pursuit of the humanities, by which life is enriched. The Yeshiva College believes that an understanding of the background of Judaism, and its contribution to human progress, will quicken and deepen the student ' s insight into his liberal studies. It aims to afford its students a sympathetic and understanding approach to the record of Israel ' s part in the history of human life and thought and a recognition of its bearing upon our future and that of mankind, thus making Jewish knowledge and culture an integral part of life and thought today, so that in time Jewish studies may come to mean not the isolated survey of statically presented happenings and attitudes, but the dynamic consideration of a spirit and philosophy of life vital to all fields of human understanding and progress. It aims to foster this harmonious growth, in which the bases of modern knowledge and culture in the fields of art, science, and service, are blend ' cd with the bases of Jewish culture, to train its students in the spirit of intelligent and high ' minded enthusiasm, and develop informed and devoted sons in the spirit and faith of Israel, able to recognize the essential harmony of life. The Yeshiva College is no longer a vision. A small but eager student body, under the guid- ance of a faculty sympathetic in outlook and sound in scholarship, with the active co-opera ' tion of an advisory board of eminent scholars and educators is completing the work of the first year of College work. Many non-Jews con ' cerned with the educational and spiritual prog ' ress of the land hail the Yeshiva College as of valid and rich promise. The opportunity for growth along the determined lines is present. May it in time be given to the Yeshiva College to bring into American educational life, as its contribution to the best in the spirit of the land, Israel ' s educational and cultural ideals and to help widen and intensify the abiding values of the spirit of Israel; steadfastness and deep devo- tion to the ideals essential to man ' s spiritual well being; to be the forerunner of a more intensive Jewish life, that shall increasingly share in and help to form the creative cultural currents that constitute the spiritual being of America. Bernard Revel.

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MASMID Executive Council (Reading left to rifeht) Judah Shapiro, Sec ' yi A. Herbert Greenljerji, Editor Harry Stein, Athletic Mana ,er, Julius Washer, Pres. Israel Upbin, Vice-Pres.