The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College • Yeshiva College Catalogue • 1928-1929

Abstract

The Yeshiva College is an integral part of the Yeshiva, the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, which was incorporated in 1896. By an amendment to the charter made by the Board of Regents of the University of the State · of New York, it is authorized to offer courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. •The Yeshiva College dedicates its energies to the education of selected groups of Jewish young men. It aims to educate liberally as well as Jewishly, young men who have already been imbued with the spirit and the sanctity of Judaism and its teachings, and who consider the complete understanding of the culture and the faith of historic Judaism an essential part of the equipment to be acquired during their College years. It seeks to strengthen in the minds of its students this abiding consciousness of the high ideals and the spiritual heritage of the Jewish people, and to develop intellect and character through the pursuit of those humanizing studies by which life is enriched. The Yeshiva College believes that an understanding of the background of Judaism, and its contribution to human progress, will quicken the student's insight into his liberal studies. It aims to foster this harmonious growth, in which the bases of modern knowledge and culture in the fields of art, science, and service, are blended with the bases of Jewish culture, so that its students may be trained in the spirit of intelligent and high-minded enthusiasm, and develop as informed and devoted sons in the spirit and faith of Israel, able to recognize the essential harmony of life.