s a
growing tendency towards a better appreciation of Jewish ideals.

It is important that all Jewish men have pride in their race. If you
don't, others will not. Some Jewish students do not seem to realize
that they have a great inheritance. Many Jewish students with whom I
have talked have been inclined to self-depreciation, and they also
felt that everyone was against them. In contrast, Irish students have
always impressed me with their self-confidence.

Bring non-Jewish students to your meetings. Try to increase your
members. I shall do all I can to foster and promote your work. I would
also urgently advocate a joint Menorah banquet between Harvard and
Technology. This banquet would not only tend to tie Technology and
Harvard students closer together, but would be of great benefit to
your Society.

The study of Jewish culture and ideals will help you to think of other
things than those immediately connected with your school work, and it
will, furthermore, instill in you a feeling of dignity for your
heritage.

REV. ANSON PHELPS STOKES, SECRETARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY

_Substance of Address before the Yale Menorah Society, October 27,
1915_

MR. Stokes spoke of three reasons why Jewish students of the right
type were welcome to Yale University:

1. _They showed themselves capable of the highest scholarship_; the
large number of prize awards won by Jewish students was evidence of
this. The speaker expressed the hope that some of the Jewish students
would go in for scholarly life careers. With so many Jewish students
of high scholarship it seemed strange that relatively few pursued
graduate studies outside of the various professions.

2. _They made their contribution to the life and thought of a
democratic American university._ A university like Yale is, he said, a
melting pot of democracy. One of its main advantages is that it brings
together Orient and Occident, North and South, Catholic and
Protestant, Christian and Jew, and makes each understand the point of
view of the other.

3. _The presence of Jewish students at the University tends to attract
to Yale gifts in the interest of Semitic studies._ The contribution of
Judaism to religious and ethical ideals was so important that no
university could afford to fail in supplying adequate courses of
Semitic instruction. Several recent gifts to the University in the
interest of Jewish scholarship from prominent Jewish citizens
indicates that they had been imp