 Morais and Mendes were soon joined by Alexander Kohut and Bernard Drachman, both of whom had received "semicha" (rabbinic ordination) at Rabbi Frankel's Breslau seminary.They shaped the curriculum and philosophy of the new school after Rabbi Frankel's seminary.The first graduate to be ordained, in 1894, was Joseph Hertz, who would go on to become the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.