3 3 0 D O C U M E N T 2 0 1 M A Y 1 9 2 8 must not be of ordinary undergraduate standard as understood in England or America. […] they must be fit to engage in specialised study in some branches of learning, taking them to the frontiers of knowledge in one or more aspects of this branch. They must possess such evidence of a general and fundamental education as will leave no doubt as to their being ready to profit fully from the courses of lectures, seminars and laboratory work placed at their disposal. […] The fear of a degree-factory is not a mere bogey, especially as Jewish students are in many countries deprived of the means of earning a livelihood by being denied the opportunity of gaining degrees. The Board of Governors, with its Academic Council and the authorities in Jerusalem, with their University Council, must ensure that the Hebrew University shall not degenerate in this wise” (see “Report on Teaching and Research in and Publications by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” 1 September 1927, pp. 9–10 [IL-RWW], emphasis in original). [5] In the subcommittee’s report, these proposals were formulated as follows: “What shall be the policy of the University in respect to individual subjects? […] there is no University in existence which possesses departments in all possible branches of knowledge. The Governing body of each University must choose. What shall be the criterion or criteria for such choices on the part of the Hebrew University? In addition to financial considerations, there seem to be three main factors, namely: the needs of Palestine the needs of the students who are likely to come to the University and the type of personnel available as professors and lecturers. […] The Committee lays it down as a defi- nite principle that everybody employed in any kind of teaching in any of the departments of the Uni- versity must be of high University rank. To introduce a schoolmaster from a neighboring school to teach a subject in the University is allowable only if the person in question happens to be of the rank associated with University lectureships. On the whole the practice should be discouraged and as soon as possible abolished” (see “Report on Teaching and Research in and Publications by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” 1 September 1927, pp. 10 and 12 [IL-RWW], emphasis in original). [6] For the proposal to appoint an academic head for the university, see “Report on Teaching and Research in and Publications by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” 1 September 1927, p. 19 [IL- RWW]. For Einstein’s support of such an academic head, see Doc. 128. [7] On Chaim Weizmann’s support of a British model for the university as opposed to Judah L. Magnes’s support of an American model, see Rosenkranz 2011, p. 186. On Einstein’s criticism of the intellectual level of the faculty in Jerusalem, see Einstein to Felix M. Warburg, 1 January 1926 [Vol. 15, Doc. 145]). [8] The chancellor was Judah L. Magnes. [9] For the varying opinions of the relationship between the administrative and academic aspects of the university’s governance, see Doc. 1, Abs. 136, and Doc. 128. [10] For Einstein’s proposal of Brodetsky for the position, see the following document. [11] Einstein had previously proposed the establishment of such a committee in Doc. 128. [12] At the time, in the natural sciences, Edmund Landau was teaching courses in mathematics and Andor Fodor was teaching courses in chemistry (see Docs. 72, 172). The German-Jewish orientalist Josef Horovitz founded the School of Oriental Studies at the university in 1926 (see Milson 2000, p. 577). [13] For Einstein’s previous opinions on the Technion in Haifa and the Hadassah Medical Organi- zation in Jerusalem, see Docs. 134 and 37. The Agricultural Experimental Station was located in Tel Aviv (see “Resolutions Adopted by the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University at Its 4th Conference in London on June 3rd, 4th and 5th, 1928” [IL-JeHUCA]. [14] Saul Adler (1895–1966) was Assistant Professor of Parasitology at the Hebrew University. For Einstein’s harsh criticism of the loss of Arthur Felix to the university, see Doc. 37. [15] The Dutch physicist Leonard Ornstein had recommended Fritz Ephraim, Professor of Chemis- try at the University of Bern in in June 1926 (see Leonard Ornstein to Einstein, 23 June 1926 [Vol. 15, Abs. 517]. Leo Kohn had recently stressed the urgency of appointing a professor of inorganic chem- istry (see Abs. 553). [16] For Einstein’s previous conditional support of securing Edmund Landau for the university, see Doc. 172. [17] In September 1927, Leo Kohn had conveyed Judah L. Magnes’s proposals for amendments to the university’s constitution (see Abs. 116). [18] For Magnes’s proposals to this effect, see Abs. 116.