Show jews and Gent gentiles lIes tho student who stands highest in the graduating class clam at yale college collego de delivers ivers on commencement day oay the valedictory oration it is an honor for which all the hard workers contend during their col college e e course and it is only obtained by the young man who makes the b best t average reco record rd in all his studies and at all the examinations this year the valedictorian was a jew and one of the youngest members of ills his class elm his name is charles wittenberg Holtz holtzheimer beimer and he lie comes from elmira in this state there was a very close race for the place and it seems that not until the final examinations wore avei over w was as it determined cheth cr cir he or a competitor from california should be accorded the kasi prize ze this youth from the pacific coast has a name which smacks strongly of holland adrian sebastian van de graat therefore in the scholastic contest at yale a jew camo came in in first and a dutchman second we also see that the first p prize for excellence in declamation was won by a chinaman mr chung chun f we jve cannot regard it as rema remarkable that a jew should d obtain the first fint place in his class elm for jews are often the best scholars in our sch schools nor is it surprising that a young man of dutch descent stood next to him for holland has been noted for its steady workers but that the most moa accomplished orator at yale college should be a chinaman is something very far out of the ordinary course in our city public schools the b best t p pupils u Is are very apt to be jews th they e t take to the lead both in scholarship h ip and deportment ament so often that t the h ep principals V cip als expect to se see e jews at t the he head a d of the classes when prizes were given not long a ago g t to the pupils of the grammar scho schools who had made the most credits creditable bl record during a spec specified ifield time the majority of them were carried offey off by bobof boys of hebrew parentage and yet the proportion of jews in our population is small as compared with the english en glisa irish and german we see therefore that in scholarship as well aa as in trade and finance the jews arc are a kin g rapid headway in the united unit d states country hotel proprietors may reject them as boarders boarde ii out of deference to the prejudices or tastes of people of other religions but they are betth getting lg into their hands a largo large portion of if the money of the country they are controlling areat great departments of business and an they are carrying off the honors at our schools and colleges that wonderful race indomitable patient resourceful ale t and d keen ke witted is bound boun d to t press forward and gain gai the prizes of life wherever it is permitted pert ted to have a free course even where it is ol 01 oppressed it multiplies rapidly and it keeps what it gains A JV Y sun june |