WITH his problems thus put, how shall the Jewish youth face them?
Shall he consider body and raiment equally, shall he put body above
raiment, or shall he put raiment above body and forget the body? To
put it crudely into other words, shall his ready adaptation to
American University life tend to make him less of a Jew, more of a
Jew, or no Jew at all, and thus tending, to repeat our original
thought, wherein will it be for weakness, wherein for strength? Each
Jewish student, no doubt, in varying measure, responds to all three of
these tendencies; yet, insofar as the response towards one or another
of these is more marked in certain individuals than in others, let us
group the individuals together accordingly, and for the convenience of
our discussion divide them into three separate types.

The no-Jew type is common on the campus. His presence pleases us,
perhaps even flatters us. He is carefree, boyish. He makes heroes of
the gridiron athletes; he delights in the comedy shows that come to
town; he joins his non-Jewish friends in outdoor play in that easy
laughter of theirs that bubbles over at a trifle;--and we were
beginning to think the Jew had forgotten to play and laugh. We saw him
after sundown once, single in a canoe, paddling across the wide
unruffled lake and far where purple sky and purple water seem to
commingle, and we thought we saw the primitive Indian again, the
wholesome child of nature plying those waters as of old. Sail on,
brave youth, we are glad to see thee still a lover of the wild, the
simple, the calm; we are glad there is still in the Jew something of
the wholesome child, the adventurer, the savage, shall we call it? We
are almost tempted to say we are glad to have him forget his past, to
sail thus away, as it were, from his troubled brethren, away across
the unruffled lake where purple wave and purple cloud in peace
commingle,--so long have we waited for the mind of the Jewish youth to
be youthful, for the moist gleam in the eye of a sorrowful children to
disappear.

_"Neither Fish, Nor Flesh, Nor Fowl"_

BUT not always is this drifting out of Jewish life so comely. There is
another individual in this type in whom it appears very much strained.
The first merges within the American tradition, the second obtrudes
into it; the first unconsciously, the second painfully aware of his
effort; the first because he has so much of the tradition within him,
the second, we are afraid, because he ha