Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The Yeshiva College of Medicine is the first medical school under Jewish auspices to be established in America. It will be a non-sectarian school with faculty and students to be selected solely on the basis of scholarship and ability, without regard to race, color, creed or sex. The College will have a Board of Over- seers of outstanding civic and communal leaders representing all faiths. Plans call for the new Col- lege of Medicine to be national in scope and world- wide in influence. Already it has elicited interest and enthusiasm throughout the United States. Over one thousand applications have been received from pros- pective students. More than four hundred have ap- plied for faculty appointments, many of them leading figures in American medicine. To the Jewish com- munity, this is an opportunity of a lifetime — to make a unique contribution to medical science and the wel- fare of America. A statistical survey made by Mr. Morris Silverman, College Registrar, shows that since 1917, 1,495 young men have received degrees from the various depart- ments of Yeshiva University (excluding the Talmudical Academy). 927 B.A. ' s; 560 Rabbinical degrees; 436 Teachers Institute Diplomas; 22 D.H.L. ' s; 16 M,S. ' »; 5 M.H.L. ' s; 3 Ph.D. ' s; 1 B.R.E.; 26 L.H.D. ' t; 14 {.iD. ' t; and 1 1 D.D. ' -, have been granted. At present, Yethivo College, with tuition at $18 a credit, consists of 526 student! and 71 faculty members. The lolest faculty additions arc Helmut Adier, Irving Agus, Manfred Halberstadt, Herbert Robinson, Leo Prijs, Arthur Imerti, and Seymour Lainoff. Yeshiva has come a long way since the early doys of its humble beginnings. But it still refuses to resist the tide of progress by resting on past laurels, and it therefore faces the future with unlimited opportunities for still greater service. A re-affirmation of the guiding principles of Yeshivo University was recently made by President Beikin. He said: Yeshiva University has never looked upon itself as a completed university, but rather as a pioneering enterprise. . . We have no ambitions to become bigger merely for the sake of bigness; we rather consider it our duty to make our contribution in terms of service, and in accordance with the needs of education in general. Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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Lamport Auditorium Yeshiva University Library Rosenberg, Samuel Mirsky, and Aaron Margalith. Drs. Meyer Atlas, Sidney Braun, Alexander Freed and Joseph Lookstein came to Yeshiva in 1938. The school received permission to confer ihe hon- orary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1940. The first recipient of this degree was the late Rabbi Bernhard L. Levinthal. Other recipients of honorary degrees have been the Hon. Herbert Lehman, Professor Albert Einstein, the Hon. Benjamin Cardoza, His Excellency Jan Masaryk, Bernard Baruch, the Hon. Thomas E. Dev ey, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. On December 1, 1940, Dr. Bernard Revel passed av ay after tv enty-five years of devoted work for Yeshiva. The following year the Graduate Department was renamed in his honor. In 1942 Dr. Belkin was appointed Dean of the Yeshiva; Mr. Sar was made Dean of Men; and Dr. Isaacs, Dean of the College. That same year, Drs. Gershon Churgin, Bernard Floch and Bruno Kisch became members of the faculty. With the election of Dr. Belkin as President in June of 1942, the institution entered a new era of physical and academic expan- sion. By this time the school had 267 students and 48 faculty members including Drs. Irving Linn and David Fleisher, and Joshua Matz, Bursar. The Harry Fischel School for Higher Jewish Studies and the Institute of Mathematics were formed in 1945. On November 16 of that year the institution became Yeshiva University with the authority to bestow the degrees of Bachelor of Hebrew Literature, Master of Hebrew Literature, Bachelor of Religious Education, Master of Religious Education, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy The Institute for Advanced Research in Rabbinics, the Audio-Visual Service, the Psychological Clinic and the Educational Service Bureau were all established within the next few years, in 1947 the construction of Graduate and Science Halls, the Pollack Library and the new dormitory on Amsterdam Avenue between 185th and 186th Streets was begun. By 1948, when the new buildings were completed, Yeshiva College consisted of 310 students and 57 faculty members including Karl Adier, Daniel Block, Gottfried Delatour, Nathan Goldberg, Hyman B. Grinstein, Walter Nallin, Emanuel Packman, Louis Sas, Maurice Chernowitz, Henry Lisman, Earl Ryan, Morris Silverman, Sidney Pleskin, Meyer Terkel, Milton Arfa, Abraham Tauber, and Israel Young, Guidance Director. The next impressive milestone in the history of Yeshiva occurred on December 14, 1950, when the Board of Regents of the State of New York granted Yeshiva University a charter for a medical school with the right to grant the M.D. and D.D.S. degrees. A compaign was begun to raise ten million dollars for the medical school to be constructed on Fordham Road in the Bronx. The school is to be operated in conjunction with a forty million dollar hospital now being built by the City of New York. At a dinner held at Princeton, New Jersey on March 15, 1953, Professor Albert Einstein acknowl- edged the naming of the Yeshiva University Medical School in his honor.

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A Message from the President yt A Samuel Belkin, President Yeshiva University Today, when you are leaving the ivory tower of Yeshiva for the world of practical realities, you must be prepared to take continuous examinations alone. For in your daily experi- ences you will be met with unexpected problems and circum- stances and your future success will depend on your ability to take advantage of the knowledge which you acquired here in order to give the proper answers to conditions and circum- stances as they suddenly arise. Many of you will forget the particulars of the subjects which you have studied, but all of you should remember the totality of your education which developed in you an intellec- tual attitude and an appreciation of spiritual values which are, indeed, the most vital parts in a man ' s education. A real edu- cation is one which helps in the developing of the total per- sonality of the individual, not only part of man but the whole man. The type of education which emphasizes only some intellectual aspects of man and neglects his spiritual needs produces a lop-sided individual. Above all remember that Man ' s chief virtues consist of honest and courageous convictions, and his refusal to yield to the temptations of expediencies and material opportunities. I have abiding faith that you will govern your lives by the standards of the Torah and by your American way of life, and that you will consider your education as a means to a greater end — towards consecrated service to God and our fellow men. Samuel Belkin President