of Temple
Emanu-El, Mr. Samuel Strauss of The New York Times, and Chief Justice
Isaac Franklin Russell of the New York Court of Special Sessions.

To celebrate the completion of one year's active work, a dinner was
held on the evening of April 30th at the Broadway Central Hotel, at
which there were present about 100 members. The Toastmaster was E.
Schwartz, and the speakers of the evening included Dr. Bernard
Drachman, Israel N. Thurman, Hyman Askowith, Louis Weinstein, the
outgoing President, and Chancellor Henry Hurwitz.

BERNARD J. REIS

Notes

Of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association

_Menorah Prize Awards_

The Harvard Menorah Prize of $100 has this year been divided into two
equal parts and awarded to Benjamin I. Goldberg, '16, for an essay on
"Maimonides as a Scientist", and Leonard L. Levy, '17, for an essay on
"The Modern Jewish National Movement". (This essay also won the second
undergraduate Bowdoin Prize at Harvard.) Honorable mention was given
to Henry Epstein, '16. The judges were Prof. David Gordon Lyon,
chairman, and Prof. J. R. Jewett of Harvard University, and President
Solomon Schechter of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

The Wisconsin Menorah Prize of $100 has this year been awarded to
Percy B. Shoshtac, '15, for an essay on Scholom Asch, the Yiddish
novelist and dramatist. The judges were Prof. R. E. N. Dodge,
chairman, Prof. E. B. McGilvary, and Prof. M. S. Slaughter of the
University of Wisconsin.

Of the three prizes of $25 each, offered by the Cornell Menorah
Society this year, only one was awarded ("for the best essay on any
subject relating to the status and problems of the Jews in any one
country"). The winning essay was by Morris J. Escoll, '16 (College of
Agriculture) upon "Phases of Jewish Thinking in American
Universities." For the prize in Hebrew there was no competition; for
the prize "on any subject relating to Jewish literature in English",
no essay was deemed of sufficient merit. The judges were Prof.
Nathaniel Schmidt of Cornell, chairman, Prof. I. Leo Sharfman of the
University of Michigan, and Prof. M. M. Kaplan of the Jewish
Theological Seminary.

_Gift from the Cornell Menorah Society_

THE MENORAH JOURNAL has received a gift of $50 from the Cornell
Menorah Society.

_Harvard Menorah Dinner_

The seventh annual Dinner of the Harvard Menorah Society was held on
May 3, 1915, in the Hotel Lenox,