L. Ellman

II. Contemporary:
(a) Religious
1. Orthodoxy Wm. Stone
2. Reform Robert Burnett
(b) National
1. Assimilationism A. Hertzmark
2. Zionism D. A. Glushek
(c) Literary
1. Yiddish M. Glazer
2. Neo-Hebrew C. Goldberg

III. Prospective:
The New Hebraism Dr. H. M. Sheffer

This program was devised with the idea of creating a definite reaction
to Hebraism. So, the papers on Hellenism and Emancipation tried by the
contrast of transitional periods to make Hebraic ideals as a whole
stand out. The meeting on Reform and Orthodoxy was devoted to an
historical analysis of the forces underlying the present situation in
Judaism. The papers on Zionism and Assimilation, again, summed up from
another angle the characteristics of Hebraic aspiration. And at the
two last meetings, present Jewish life and ideals were discussed in
terms of their literary and philosophical expression.

Along with these meetings we had several lectures by Dr. H. M.
Sheffer, Rabbi A. A. Neuman of the Dropsie College, and Dr. H. M.
Kallen of Wisconsin. These meetings were in every case productive of
great enthusiasm. Prof. J. E. Wrench addressed a meeting composed in
numbers equally of Jews and non-Jews on "The Jew and Christian in the
Middle Ages", and we also had an address by Dr. A. T. Olmstead,
Professor of Ancient History, on the "Book of Kings".

JOHN SHOLTZ

University of North Carolina

The Menorah Society at our University is in a unique position. The
number of Jews in North Carolina is the smallest of any in the
Southern States. Only in a few places is there any organized Jewish
life. The Jewish students come chiefly from such places where the
number of Jews is very small. Under these circumstances, it can
readily be seen how difficult it was at first to implant the idea of
a Jewish society for the purpose of the study of Jewish subjects of
which the majority of the students were greatly ignorant. The Society,
however, has now passed far beyond the experimental stage. All the
Jewish students at North Carolina now show a great deal of interest
and enthusiasm in the Menorah work.

From the fact that our Society can look to very little in the way of
he