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Friday, April 12, 1946
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Does the American Jew Carry His Share
Of the Load in the Present College Education?
By RABBI LEON SPITZ
When this writer wrote for the
National Jewish Monthly (then
the Bnai Brith Magazine) on this
topic some fifteen years ago, to
be absolutely specific In the June
1930 Issue, the then available data
justified the following conclusion
from which one quotes:
"The American Jew — it must
be conceded has in years past
simply not been able to measure
up to the standard which has been
set by a Rockefeller, a Duke, a
Harkness, a Pratt, a Morgan, a
Carnegie who have and give in
terms of hundreds of millions of
dollars."
This writer explained at least in
part this failure of Jewish gen-
erosity in the way of university
endowments by the fact that Am.
erican Jewry was in those years
privileged to bear the burden of
European and Palestinean Post-
World War I Reconstruction to
the tune of a hundred million
dollars and that we spent an-
other hundred million dollars on
Centers, Synagogues, and Philan-
thropic institutions.
However, a certain amount of
surprise was occasioned when the
late Pieter Wiernick, Jewish his-
torian and editor-in-chief of the
Jewish Morning Journal, featured
an editorial in which he applaud-
ed this writer's audacity in re-
vealing the situation, but he laid
the blame on our Jewish Million-
aires for their failure to properly
evaluate the problem.
What was the situation in this
respect then and has it changed
to the better; and If so, to what
extent?
It was then estimated that 50,-
000 Jewish students of both sexes
were matriculating in American
Colleges. The total student popula-
tion was approximately a million
Jews, who constituted 4 percent
of the general population, sent
5 percent of their young people
to college, which was not very
much out of the way.
Jewish students had already in
those days habituated themselves
to capturing prizes, scholarships,
and fellowships — all of which Is
to the good. But it must be pat-
ently clear that it takes money
and a lot of it to keep a univer-
sity going, especially if it is a
privately endowed university, not
a city college nor a state institu-
tion.
When Dr. S. M. Melamed, editor
of the Reflex, estimated that the
legitimate Jewish portion of the
A in e r i c a n College Endowment
fund should have been in the
neighborhood of one hundred mil-
lion dollars, he definitely knew
whereof he spoke.
Today the Jewish student pop-
ulation has risen to approximately
100,000. Our budgetary share has
consequently doubled. The pertin-
ent (or possibly impertinent) que-
ry is, to put it quite brutally:
Has American Jewry lived up to
its college budgetary obligation?
What are the cold figures that
provide the Jewish answer to this
challenge? How much does the
American Jew pay?
In he first place he pays taxes,
then he pays tuition fees.
He also donated buildings. Even
a brief stroll through Harvard
will immediately encounter the
Schiff Semitics Museum, the Leh-
man, Straus and Sachs Halls. Lew-
issohn donated the Stadium to
the College of the City of New
York. Frederick Brown gave to
New York University buildings
worth several millions. The Falk
Family of Pittsburgh erected the
Falk Clinic at the University of
Pittsburgh with an outlay of al•
most a million dollars. Chicago
University has the Rosenwald
Building, an Epstein Clinic, an
Epstein Art Building.
Even more munificent has been
the Jewish share in supplying en-
dowment funds. To mention only
the larger gifts: Mr. Speyer, the
New York banker, endowed the
School of Education; Pulitzer, the
School of Journalism; and the
Schiff family in large measure,
Barnard College at Columbia Uni-
versity. The School of Mines is o
Guggenheim endowment. At New
York University, the Guggenheims
have also made available the
School of Aeronautics at a cost of
$3,000,000 and Mr. Percy Straus
headed the University's Centen-
nial Campaign with a cool mil-
lion. The University of Chicago
has been an expense to Rosen-
wald to the extent of at least $5,-
000,000. Chicago also houses the
Cancer Foundation for Medical
Research. Bernard M. Baruch —
the distinguished park bench dip-
lomat — endowed heavily the
Walter H. Page School of Inter-
national Relationship. The Gug-
genheim family have set aside the
sum of $2,500,000 for the promo-
tion of aeronautics generally. To
cap it all there is also the magni-
ficent $3,000,000 Simon Guggen-
heim Fund for Travelling Scholar-
ships. And one should not forget
the many Pulitzer awards, fellow-
ships and scholarships. Lucius N.
Littauer, former congressman and
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