Benjamin Horowitz of the School of Commerce of New York University was adjudged the best speaker in the finals of the first annual Commerce oratorical contest, held December 20, it was announced yesterday. His topic was “The Jew and the Spanish Inquisition.” Leonard Kalish, speaking on “The Relation of Economics to Business,” took second honors.
After the seventeenth century sack of K’ai Fong Foo, city in China, the Jews took refuge on the north side of the river after retrieving a scroll of the law that had been thrown into the river.
Mendes Cohen of Baltimore was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers for 1892-93.
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