ah." The
trumpet blast was sounded loud and long: and the children of Israel
came out from their tents. Through advertisement in the _Michigan
Daily_, through posters and personal contact with the students on the
campus, a large attendance was procured for the first meeting.
Professor Sharfman was on hand to inspire enthusiasm into the men and
women. An excellent musical program had been provided for. The meeting
was highly successful and brought tidings for a banner year. Some
previously discordant strings were brought to the proper tune. There
had been some friction between the Students' Congregation and the
Menorah last year. This friction arose for two reasons: first, some
Menorah men felt that the Congregation was "cutting out" the Menorah,
that the Congregation was entering upon the Menorah's field of action.
Of course, there is absolutely no reason for such an objection. The
Menorah supplies the intellectual needs of the Jewish students; the
Congregation exists for religious inspiration only. True enough, the
two overlap to a small degree; but not sufficiently to be termed
"encroachment." The second reason was a technical one. The Menorah men
were greatly vexed because the time of the Congregation conflicted
with our time. The Menorah began at 8 P. M. on Sunday evening; but the
Congregation did not adjourn often until 8.15 or 8.30. The
Congregation itself was not to blame, for they could not always
foresee that a Rabbi would become so overheated in discussing the war
situation that he would ignore the element of time in the make-up of
our universe. At the beginning of this semester we determined to put
an end to all friction, though trivial, between the two organizations.
There is no worldly reason for discord between the two Jewish
organizations. We held a consultation with the President of the
Congregation who assured us of all possible support; and in turn the
Menorah assured the Congregation of support. Indeed, the Menorah
conceded a point by moving our meeting time fifteen minutes; and the
President of the Congregation, who is also a Menorah member, was given
the floor at the first meeting to enlighten the audience on the
meaning of the Congregation to student life. A goodly number of
Congregation men and women are Menorah members and _vice versa_. The
two organizations are now working in entire harmony and we are
accomplishing the more for it.

Our second meeting was held on October 31. Professor Leroy Wat