rived to turn the large university hall into a medium
of information more adequate than our University Bulletins and
Registers combined. The bulletin boards covering every vacant spot on
the walls told me the story of all the phases of Jewish activities in
the University, professional, social, vocational and, if you please,
also gastronomical, more fully than the frescoed walls of Dido's
temple told their story to pious AEneas. In the announcement of courses
by the various faculties, well-known Jewish names stand out quite
prominently,--none of them above the rank of Honorar-Professor, to be
sure, but in popularity and achievement they are among the foremost.
Among the long rows of the variegated Wappen of the Korporationen, the
Borussias, Teutonias and Germanias, there hang the insignia of the
Jewish students' societies, the yellow and white of the Sprevia and
the black and gold of the Hasmonea, both announcing the dates of their
Kneipe held in their respective places in the students' quarters
around Linienstrasse and Charlottenburg. In another nook of the hall,
from the midst of a jumble of little slips of paper enumerating in
minute detail in microscopic German script what dishes are offered at
the paltry sum of so many pfennig in the various "Privat-Mittagtische"
and "buergerliche-Kueche" there looms up unblushingly, proud in the
clearness of its square characters, the Hebrew word [Hebrew: kosher]
over the notice of a Lebanon restaurant run by a Palestinian Jew.
Still further on the wall, students of unmistakably Jewish names offer
instruction in almost all the languages spoken, while a German young
lady wants to exchange lessons in Russian with an _orthodox Christian_
and one who hails from the mendacious little country, cautiously
states, as an inducement to a prospective pupil in the Roumanian
tongue, that the would-be instructor is a _true_ Roumanian. Here you
have a picture of Jewish life in the Berlin University, in its outer
paraphernalia, in its cosmopolitan character, in its relation to the
rest of the student body, in its freedom and restriction, as portrayed
in the unjaundiced tales of bulletin boards.

_The Opposing Views of Student Societies at Berlin_

OF the two Jewish organizations mentioned above, the Hasmonea is a
branch of the inter-varsity K. Z. V. (Kartell Zionistischer
Verbindungen), whereas the Sprevia belongs to the K.-C.
(Kartell-Convent der Tendenzverbindungen deutscher Studenten juedisc