(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Prizes in all departments were won by Jewish students at the convocation of McGill University held here last week. Of the 480 students who received degrees, 109 were Jewish young men and women.
Among the winners of special prizes and scholarships was Jacob Harold Blumenstein, who was awarded the Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal for highest standing in the final examinations, the Macdonald Travelling Scholarship and the Montreal Bar Association Prize for Commercial Law.
Abraham Edel is the first Jewish student to hold the Moyse Travelling Scholarship. Mr. Edel is the youngest Master of Arts at McGill University. Winners of economics fellowships and medals in the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill included the following Jewish students: Abraham Kirslchberg, Hyman Carl Goldenberg, and Morton Myer Mendels. Vera Weinfeld, a Jewish girl, who received her licentiate in music at McGill Conversatorium, also won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Bronze Medal for highest standing in the junior year. Other Jewish students who won distinctive honors at McGill this year were: Samuel Greenberg, Archie Benjamin, Jacob Hiam Feiner, Samuel Brudie and Melvyn Moe Berlind. The only girl to graduate in four years from the Faculty of Law was a Jewish girl, Miss Sadie Lazarovitz, of Quebec City.
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