Editing Brandeis University (section)

===Opening===
[[File:Brandeis University Admissions Night.jpg|right|thumb| Brandeis's admissions building at night]]

On April 26, 1948, Brandeis University announced that [[Abram L. Sachar]], chairman of the National Hillel Commission, had been chosen as Brandeis' first president.<ref name= heads>{{cite news |title= Sachar Heads University|date= April 27, 1948 |work= The New York Times |page= 3 |id= {{ProQuest|108194770}} }}</ref> Sachar promised that Brandeis University would follow Louis Brandeis' principles of academic integrity and service.<ref>{{cite news |title= Brandeis University Pledged to His Ideals |date= June 15, 1948 |work= The New York Times |page= 34 |id= {{ProQuest|108183254}} }}</ref> He also promised that students and faculty would never be chosen based on quotas of "genetic or ethnic or economic distribution" because choices based on quotas "are based on the assumption that there are standard population strains, on the belief that the ideal American must look and act like an eighteenth-century Puritan, that the melting pot of America must mold all who live here into such a pattern."<ref name= installed>{{cite news |title= Sachar Installed As Brandeis Head |first= John H. |last= Fenton |date= October 8, 1948|work= The New York Times |page= 22 |id= {{ProQuest|108273404}} }}</ref> Students who applied to the school were not asked their race, religion, or ancestry.<ref>{{cite news |title= Brandeis University |first= Drew |last= Pearson|newspaper= The Washington Post |date= October 17, 1948 |page= M15 |id= {{ProQuest|152041623}} }}</ref>

Brandeis decided its undergraduate instruction would not be organized with traditional departments or divisions, and instead it would have four schools, namely the School of General Studies, the School of Social Studies, the School of Humanities, and the School of Science.<ref>{{cite news |title= Brandeis Inaugural: University in Waltham, Mass., Establishes Four Schools |date= October 3, 1948 |work= The New York Times |page= E7 |id= {{ProQuest|108268080}} }}</ref> On October 14, 1948,<ref name="installed" /> Brandeis University received its first freshman class of 107 students.<ref name="expanding">{{cite news |title= Brandeis Expanding |first= Benjamin |last= Fine |date= May 13, 1951 |work= The New York Times |page= B9 |id= {{ProQuest|112215962}} }}</ref> They were taught by thirteen instructors<ref name="first-graduation" /> in eight buildings on a {{convert|100|acre|ha|abbr=off|adj=on}} campus.<ref name="brandeis-builds">{{cite news |title= Brandeis Builds: Facilities Will Be Provided for Graduate Science Studies |date= January 31, 1954 |work= The New York Times |page= E9 |id= {{ProQuest|113152034}} }}</ref> Students came from 28 states and six foreign countries.<ref>{{cite news |title= Interracial Award Established At Brandeis University |work= Atlanta Daily World |date= August 8, 1950 |page= 2 |id= {{ProQuest|490919935}} }}</ref> The library was formerly a barn, students slept in the former medical school building and two army barracks, and the cafeteria was where the medical school had stored cadavers.<ref name="spirit" /> Historians Elinor and Robert Slater later called the opening of Brandeis one of the great moments in Jewish history.<ref name="slater">{{cite book | title = Great Moments in Jewish History | first1 = Elinor | last1 = Slater | first2 = Robert | last2 = Slater | publisher = Jonathan David Company, Inc. | year = 1999 | isbn = 0-8246-0408-3 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/greatmomentsinje00slat/page/121 121–123] | url = https://archive.org/details/greatmomentsinje00slat/page/121 }}</ref>