the Menorah Societies in New York, members of Menorah Societies at
other Colleges and Universities home for their vacation are invited to
be present. It is hoped also that a number of delegates from various
parts of the country to the Menorah Convention which meets the next
morning in Philadelphia will be able to attend.

Activities of Menorah Societies

=Clark College=

THE third year of the Clark College Menorah Society opened on
September 24 with every Jewish member of the college present. The
membership is larger than ever before, and all things forecast a most
prosperous year, one which will be fully in keeping with the decennial
year of the Menorah movement.

A program has been made by the executive committee and the subjects
for the year have been mapped out, as follows:

(1) Jewish Literature;
(2) The Messiah Idea in Jewish History;
(3) Aspects of Hebrew Genius;
(4) Jewish History;
(5) Stories and Pictures;
(6) The Haskalah Movement;
(7) Songs of Exile;
(8) Judah Ha-Levi;
(9) Zionism;
(10) Ahad Ha-'Amism;
(11) The Bible as Literature;
(12) The Jewish Language;
(13) Reform vs. Orthodoxy;
(14) Nationality and the Hyphenated American;
(15) Anti-Semitism;
(16) Justice and Mercy.

These topics are assigned to the various members of the Society and
reports are given at the meetings. Discussion follows usually and
great interest has been manifested by all members.

The second annual banquet of the Society is to be held in January and
plans have already been under way for the past few weeks, efforts
being made to hold a banquet surpassed by no other Society in point of
stirring interest for the Menorah among all the students and faculty.

ISADOR LUBIN

=College of the City of New York=

THE beginning of the academic year 1915-1916 marked the adoption of a
new policy in the history of the C. C. N. Y. Menorah Society. During
the past five years, Menorah activities have been mainly extensive,
the purpose being to interest as large a number of students as
possible. But now that the Menorah has come to exert such a wide
influence in C. C. N. Y., greater prominence is being given to work of
a more intensive nature, and emphasis is laid on the quality rather
than the quantity of the membership.

Our program of Menorah activities may be divided into extensive work