_Menorah Prize Awards_
The Harvard Menorah Prize of $100 has this year been divided into two
equal parts and awarded to Benjamin I. Goldberg, '16, for an essay on
"Maimonides as a Scientist", and Leonard L. Levy, '17, for an essay on
"The Modern Jewish National Movement". (This essay also won the second
undergraduate Bowdoin Prize at Harvard.) Honorable mention was given
to Henry Epstein, '16. The judges were Prof. David Gordon Lyon,
chairman, and Prof. J. R. Jewett of Harvard University, and President
Solomon Schechter of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
The Wisconsin Menorah Prize of $100 has this year been awarded to
Percy B. Shoshtac, '15, for an essay on Scholom Asch, the Yiddish
novelist and dramatist. The judges were Prof. R. E. N. Dodge,
chairman, Prof. E. B. McGilvary, and Prof. M. S. Slaughter of the
University of Wisconsin.
Of the three prizes of $25 each, offered by the Cornell Menorah
Society this year, only one was awarded ("for the best essay on any
subject relating to the status and problems of the Jews in any one
country"). The winning essay was by Morris J. Escoll, '16 (College of
Agriculture) upon "Phases of Jewish Thinking in American
Universities." For the prize in Hebrew there was no competition; for
the prize "on any subject relating to Jewish literature in English",
no essay was deemed of sufficient merit. The judges were Prof.
Nathaniel Schmidt of Cornell, chairman, Prof. I. Leo Sharfman of the
University of Michigan, and Prof. M. M. Kaplan of the Jewish
Theological Seminary.
_Gift from the Cornell Menorah Society_
THE MENORAH JOURNAL has received a gift of $50 from the Cornell
Menorah Society.
_Harvard Menorah Dinner_
The seventh annual Dinner of the Harvard Menorah Society was held on
May 3, 1915, in the Hotel Lenox, Boston. It was the largest and most
successful dinner in the history of the Society, some 200 men,
including a number of graduate members, being present. The toastmaster
was President Ralph A. Newman, and toasts were responded to by Prof.
D. G. Lyon, Prof. G. F. Moore, Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, Mr. Felix M. Warburg, Mr. Maurice Wertheim, Mr. Joseph L. Cohen
(of Cambridge University, England), Mr. Hyman Askowith, and Chancellor
Henry Hurwitz. The winners of the Harvard Menorah Prizes, announced by
Prof. Lyon, gave summaries of their essays.
_Wisconsin Menorah Banquet_
The fourth annual Banquet of the Wisconsin Menorah Society was held on
May 22, 1915, in the Women's Building of the University. President
Harry Hersh was toastmaster, and toasts were responded to by Judge
Julian W. Mack, Prof. I. Leo Sharfman, Mrs. Joseph Jastrow, Dr. H. M.
Kallen, and Dr. C. S. Levi of Milwaukee.
_Incoming Menorah Presidents_
The elections of the following presidents of Menorah Societies for
next year have been reported: Brown, Abraham J. Burt; California,
Stanley M. Arndt (re-elected); Clark, Abraham J. Levensohn;
Cincinnati, Philip L. Wascerwitz; College of the City of New York,
Moses H. Gitelson; Cornell, Aaron Bodanski; Harvard, Fred F. Greenman;
Hunter, Sarah Berenson; Johns Hopkins, Jonas Friedenwald; Illinois,
Karl Epstein; Maine, Lewis H. Kriger (re-elected); Michigan, A. J.
Levin; North Carolina, Alfred M. Lindau; New York University, Michael
Stavitsky (University Heights) and Bernard J. Reis (Washington
Square); Pennsylvania, Jacob Rubinoff (re-elected); Radcliffe, Hannah
R. London; Wisconsin, Charles Lebowsky.
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Transcriber's Notes:
This text uses both co-operation and coöperation, as well as both to-day
and today.
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.