Most of the country's oldest colleges, e.g., Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, were started by churchmen. Last week Physicist Albert Einstein and other American Jews founded a nonsectarian liberal arts university in Massachusetts, the first sponsored by Jews outside Palestine.*
A new organization called the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc. plans to raise $6 million, mostly from Jews, to endow the university. It has already acquired the campus of tiny Middlesex University (enrollment: 150) in the watchmaking town of Waltham, Mass., will become the 15th college within a 30-mile radius of Boston.
Middlesex U. has had tough...
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