A welcome exception to the attitude of many Polish professors during the anti-Semitic excesses is the public protest against the brutalities voiced by Professor Stanislaw Nowokowsky of the Posen University.
Enraged by the professor’s utterance and by his attempt to protect Jewish students, he was attacked and badly beaten by the Endek anti-Semitic students.
The Inter-Varsity Council of the Menorah Society will hold a meeting on December 18th in the auditorium of the School of Commerce of the College of the City of New York with regard to the anti-Semitic disturbances in Poland, it was announced yesterday by Henry Hurwitz, Chancellor of the Menorah Society.
Appropriate resolutions will be adopted on that occasion. Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York, will be one of the speakers. Mr. Hurwitz will preside.
The Inter-Collegiate Menorah Society, of which the Inter-Varsity Council is a subsidiary, will not participate in the student protest demonstration scheduled for December 15th, as had been announced, Mr. Hurwitz stated.
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