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 cooeperation, as well as both to-day
and today.

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page ii, "commissiom" changed to "commission" (My commission expires)

[Illustration: THE SPOILS OF JERUSALEM, FROM THE ARCH OF TITUS]

THE MENORAH JOURNAL

VOLUME 1 OCTOBER, 1915 NUMBER 4

[Illustration]

The Arch of Titus

Done into English by H. M. K. from the Hebrew of H. A. W.[A]

CRUMBLING, age-worn, in Rome the eternal
Stands the arch of Titus' triumph,
With its carven Jewish captives
Stooped before the holy Menorah.

And each nightfall, when the turmoil
Of the Petrine clangor ceaseth,