He is best known today as the father of Richard Alpert ( Baba Ram Dass). Alpert's firm had a long association with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, of which he was to become president from 1956 to 1961. Īlpert had worked his way through Boston University School of Law and co-founded the firm of Alpert and Alpert. Smith approached Goldstein with a proposal to give the Middlesex campus and charter to Goldstein's committee, in the hope that his committee might "possess the apparent ability to reestablish the School of Medicine on an approved basis." While Goldstein was concerned about being saddled with a failing medical school, he was excited about the opportunity to secure a 100-acre (40-hectare) "campus not far from New York, the premier Jewish community in the world, and only 9 miles (14 km) from Boston, one of the important Jewish population centers." Goldstein agreed to accept Smith's offer, proceeding to recruit George Alpert, a Boston lawyer with fundraising experience as national vice president of the United Jewish Appeal. He learned of a New York committee headed by Israel Goldstein that was seeking a campus to establish a Jewish-sponsored secular university. Ruggles Smith, was desperate for a way to save something of Middlesex University. The school had not been able to secure accreditation by the American Medical Association, which Smith partially attributed to institutional antisemitism in the American Medical Association, and, as a result, Massachusetts had all but shut it down. Within two years, Middlesex University was on the brink of financial collapse. Smith's will stipulated that the school should go to any group willing to use it to establish a non-sectarian university. The founder, John Hall Smith, died in 1944. Middlesex University was a medical school located in Waltham, Massachusetts, that was at the time the only medical school in Massachusetts that did not impose a quota on Jews. Brandeis University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. Alumni and affiliates of the university include former first lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt, Nobel Prize laureate Roderick MacKinnon and Fields Medalist Edward Witten, as well as foreign heads of state, congressmen, governors, diplomats, and recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Emmy Award, and MacArthur Fellowship. It has the eighth-largest proportion of international students of any university in the United States. The university has a strong liberal arts focus and attracts a geographically and economically diverse student body, with 72% of its non-international undergraduates being from out of state, 50% of full-time undergraduates receiving need-based financial aid and 13.5% being recipients of the federal Pell Grant. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is a member of Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium, which allows students to cross-register to attend courses at other institutions including Boston College, Boston University and Tufts University. The institution offers more than 43 majors and 46 minors and two-thirds of undergraduate classes have 20 students or fewer. In 2018, it had a total enrollment of 5,800 students on its suburban campus spanning 235 acres (95 hectares). The university is named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the U.S. Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jewish community, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University. The Judge and Ollie the Owl (named for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)īrandeis University / ˈ b r æ n d aɪ s/ is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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