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...Islam. Under it are many others. Mohammed said there would be 73 Moslem sects, but that only one would survive. This is authority enough for the existence of 73 sects, although the nuances which differentiate some of them are delicate in the extreme. For the purpose of clarifying the background to events which are even now taking place in Arabia, attention will be drawn to onethe Wahabite. The Wahabis are a cross between the Hanbalite and Zahirite sects or, in western parlance, the Puritans of the Church of Islam. They cling tenaciously to orthodox Moslem tenets and strive...
...Swanson's latest contains only a mild amount of drama but a good deal of Gloria Swanson and will therefore automatically acquire a million or more dollars. Mary Robert Rinehart wrote this one on the sound old theme of the Princess who loved the commoner. Against a purple background of mustachios and gold lace, Miss Swanson again demonstrates that she is quite properly one of the greater figures in the current cinema...
...discussing the proper content of Latin courses in schools the report recommends that greater stress be laid on developing the power to read Latin and thus to obtain a cultural and literary background. To this end it is recommended that the formal study of the elements of language be somewhat reduced in the early years and that a wide selection of reading matter designed to furnish this historical-cultural objective be emphasized. Mythology, Roman traditions, home life and biography, and legends and stories appealing to the imagination of youth are subject matter recommended...
...provisional line-up has yet been divulged from the secret confinement of the Stadium. The coaches are confining their attention almost wholly to individual instruction. This method will develop a more thorough background than Harvard players have perhaps ever...
Little horses, nervy and debonair, clipping the turf with pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient...