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C. Ruggles Smith, desperate for a way to save something of Middlesex University, learned of a New York committee headed by Goldstein that was seeking a campus to establish a Jewish-sponsored secular university, and 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.

" Goldstein was concerned about being saddled with a failing medical school, but excited about the opportunity to secure a " campus not far from New York, the premier Jewish community in the world, and only from Boston, one of the important Jewish population centers.

" Goldstein agreed to accept Smith's offer and then proceeded to recruit George Alpert, a Boston lawyer with fund-raising experience as national vice president of the United Jewish Appeal.