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...Dembitz Brandeis) had 107 freshmen and a faculty of 13. Its plant was the defunct Middlesex University, a few old buildings dominated by a fake castle that Architect Eero Saarinen described as "Mexican-Ivanhoe." But in naming a president, the founders made the happy choice of Historian Abram Leon Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission, who exuberantly diagnosed himself as suffering from an "edifice complex...
People, Not Courses. Genial, chunky Abe Sachar, 63, found his ailment matched by Jews across the country. Brandeis was too new to have alumni, but generous gifts flowed in from "foster alumni." They ranged from Crooner Eddie Fisher, who set up two music scholarships, to Broadway Producer David Merrick, who gave Brandeis a slice of Gypsy. Today Brandeis is a $24 million complex of more than 50 handsome buildings, including a 750,000-volume library and three ultramodern chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
...Sachar's call for teachers brought a flood of lively volunteers. Trustee Eleanor Roosevelt still teaches a course on the U.N., bringing the immediacy of what "Franklin"hoped for it in 1945 or what U Thant said at tea last week. With his usual furious energy, Conductor Leonard Bernstein developed the music department. Archibald MacLeish, W. H. Auden and e. e. cummings have lectured on modern poetry. Arthur Miller taught drama, and Columnist Max Lerner commutes from Manhattan to give a course on American civilization. Says Dean Clarence Berger: "We keep telling students they're taking people...
President Sachar opts for a secular school "no more Jewish than Princeton is Presbyterian." He well knows that his students "bring a bias with them. It's not exactly anti-God. It's anticlerical." In fact, the Hillel Foundation at Brandeis has only 50 or 60 members, and only the Catholic chapel gets much attendance. Says one senior: "Most students feel that religion is-well, somehow beneath them...
...Question of Chairs: The Challenge of American Education (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The evolution of U.S. education discussed by Nathan M. Pusey, president of Harvard, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame, and Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis...