“Since it is to be a _Hebrew_ University, the question hardly arises as to its language. By a strange error, people have regarded _Hebrew_ as one of the dead languages, whilst in fact it has never died off the lips of mankind. True, to many of us Jews it has become a second language, but for thousands of my people _Hebrew_ is and always has been the sacred tongue, and in the streets of _Tel Aviv_, in the orchards of _Rischon_ and _Rechoboth_, on the farms of _Hulda_ and _Ben Shemen_, it has already become the mother tongue. Here in Palestine, amid the _Babel_ of languages, _Hebrew_ stands out as the one language in which every Jew can communicate with every other Jew. Upon the technical difficulties connected with _Hebrew_ instruction it is unnecessary for me to dwell at the moment. We are alive to them; but the experience of our Palestinian schools has already shown to us that these difficulties are surmountable. These are all matters of detail which have been carefully examined and will be dealt with at the appropriate time. I have spoken of the Jewish University where the language will be _Hebrew_, just as French is used at the Sorbonne, or English at Oxford. Naturally, other languages, ancient and modern, will be taught in the respective faculties; among these languages we may expect that prominent attention will be given to Arabic and other Semitic languages. “The _Hebrew_ University, though intended primarily for Jews, will, of course, give an affectionate welcome to the members of every race and creed. ‘For my house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.’ Besides the usual schools and institutions which go to form a modern University, there will be certain branches of science which it will be peculiarly appropriate to associate with our University. Archæological Research, which has revealed so much of the mysterious past of Egypt and of Greece, has a harvest still to be reaped in Palestine, and our University is destined to play an important part in this field of knowledge.