Einstein Foundation Is Set
To Found Non-Sectarian Coll

Albert Einstein has given his support and his name to a foundation which plans to establish at Waltham, Mass., next year a new Jewish-sponsored university of top rank, open to students and faculty members without regard to race, creed or religious beliefs, it was announced yesterday.

The foundation, known as the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc., made its first public announcement through its president, Dr. Israel Goldstein, who is also president of the Jewish Conciliation Board of America, and a leader in Jewish affairs. It has already acquired a 110-acre campus and a group of buildings from Middlesex University, which will go out of existence within a year.

The name of the new university has not been decided yet, but a committee is being formed to select a chancellor, and plans are underway to open it in October, 1947, with courses in the liberal arts

and sciences. While the foundation has taken over the physical plant and the chatrer of Middlesex University, the educational project itself is to be wholly divorced from Middlesex University.

Dr. Goldstein said that Professor Einstein, in accepting sponsorship of the foundation, wrote:

> "I am convinced that such an institution will attract our best young people, and not less our young scientists and learned men in all fields. It would satisfy a real need. I would do anything in my power to help in the creation and guidance of such an institution. It would always be near to my heart."

Dr. Goldstein said the foundation planned "a truly American university which will be a worthwhile Jewish contribution to higher learning and professional training at a time when there is a mounting need for "additional educational facilities," and he said, "our stand-(Continued on page 19, column 2)"