Students and delegates representing more than fifty colleges and universities in the United States and Canada will gather in New York City, December 26, for the four-day convention of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association. Young men and women from all parts of this country and Canada, including the Pacific Coast, Texas, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Chicago, Winnipeg and Toronto, will open the convention with a luncheon at the Jewish Club, December 26.
The agenda of the convention also includes a debate to be held Thursday evening, December 26, at Earl Hall Columbia University, between the University of Minnesota Menorah Society and the New York Menorah Inter-Varsity. The subject will be: "Resolved, that modern tendencies in America will lead to the absorption of the Jew." The University of Minnesota will take the affirmative.
The convention will close with a banquet at the Commodore Hotel Sunday evening, the 29th. The Irving Lehman Trophy, an annual award, will be presented to the Society adjudged to have done the best work for the year 1928-29.
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