Chapter 4

CONTENTS

THE POTENCY OF THE JEWISH RACE _Charles W. Eliot_ 141 ISRAEL AND MEDICINE _Sir William Osler_ 145 THE WAR FROM A JEWISH STANDPOINT _Richard Gottheil_ 150 O SWEET ANEMONES: _A Song_ _Jessie E. Sampler_ 158 "PATHS OF PLEASANTNESS" _David Werner Amram_ 159 THE JEWISH GENIUS IN LITERATURE _Edward Chauncey Baldwin_ 164 JEWISH WORTHIES: JOCHANAN BEN ZAKKAI _Abraham M. Simon_ 173 ZIONISM: A MENORAH PRIZE ESSAY _Marvin M. Lowenthal_ 179 FROM COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY: _Activities of Menorah Societies_ 194 NOTES _of The Intercollegiate Menorah Association_ 200

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