_=Dr. Stephen S. Wise=_--="The College Man and Jewish Life"=

_=Dr. George Alexander Kohut=_--="Some Curiosities of Jewish
Literature"=

_=Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen=_--="The Poetry of Jehudah Ha-Levi"=

="Phases of Jewish Thinking in American Universities"=--A Menorah
Prize Essay

_=Maurice Wertheim=_--="Americanism and Judaism"=

_=Louis Weinberg=_--="The Jew in The Industrial and Fine Arts"=

_=Dr. I. L. Kandel=_ of the Carnegie Foundation--="The Development of
Jewish Education"=

="Jewish Worthies"=--A series of portrait sketches of the most notable
personalities in the history of Jewish life and thought

="Jewish Women of the Eighteenth Century Salons"=

="The Jew in Modern Drama and Acting"=

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VOLUME I JUNE, 1915 NUMBER 3

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The Potency of the Jewish Race

BY CHARLES W. ELIOT

[Illustration: _CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (born in Boston, 1834),
preeminent as educator and publicist; for forty years President of
Harvard University; revered not only by Harvard men but by all
Americans as a great leader of thought and opinion. Dr. Eliot warmly
welcomed the organization of the first Menorah Society at Harvard, in
1906; and to his encouragement is due in large measure the growth of
the Menorah movement. At a time when the problems and lessons of the
war are absorbing his attention, Dr. Eliot has generously shown his
continued sympathy with the Menorah aims and his interest in the
Menorah Journal by preparing this article._]

For many centuries the Jews have had no country of their own or even
national headquarters. They have been scattered among many nations,
all more or less unfriendly, and some cruelly oppressive; yet they
have retained, under the most adverse circumstances, the capacity to
earn their livelihood, to bring up families, and to maintain the great