Word: menorahs
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Dates: during 1907-1907
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Last evening in Phillips Brooks House President Eliot addressed a meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society and representatives and the Jewish race from many of the New England colleges. He began by saying that Harvard University was founded for the search of truth and freedom, and that in this spirit the students of Semitic descent were received. The Jewsih race, he said, had a history piteous and full of pathos, and that it remembered three great captivities and times when it had had freedom only to think and hope, and but that now in this land it had found freedom...
President Eliot will address a meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 8 o'clock. Representatives of Brown University, Dartmouth, Technology, Tufts, Boston University and Radcliffe will be present. The purpose of the meeting is to urge the formation of similar societies in other colleges, and members of the University interested in the objects of the society, the study and promotion of Hebraic culture and ideals, are cordially invited. After the meeting there will be an informal reception...
...Henry Berkowitz last night delivered the first of a series of public lectures to be given under the auspices of the Harvard Menorah Society. His subject was "The Menorah in the Light of History...
...lecture dwelt upon the origin of the Menorah, the seven-branched candle-stick, in the festival described in the Book of Maccabees. He went on to describe the 500 years' struggle between the Hellenic and Hebraic ideals, which culminated in the annihilation of the Jews as a nation after the conquest of Judaea by Titus. Beauty was the Greek ideal, while that of the Hebrews was goodness, and of this the Menorah was emblematic...
...MENORAH SOCIETY. "The Menorah in the Light of History." Dr. Henry Berkowitz, of Philadelphia, Pa. Emerson...