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With the citizens of Mecca the case was different. The city had grown rich by trade, being situated on the caravan route to the highly civilized states of southern Arabia. At Mecca was situated the Caaba, the central temple of the Arabs. The pilgrims wished to find their tribal gods in the temple, and thus a polytheism became the religion of the city, although many of the citizens, who had studied the sacred books of the Jews, were inclinto monotheism. Any attack on the idols endangered the commercial prosperity of the city, as the pilgrims afforded the chief source...
...private classical school for boys with best antecedents is for sale in a Central State...
...will probably not be supplied for several years. The extension of the Peabody Museum is about forty feet in depth, and will be devoted mainly to exhibition rooms. The addition to the Agassiz Museum is 110 feet long, and will be used for botany, geology, and physical geography. The central portion, for the length of 70 feet will be devoted to botany. The arrangement of rooms in this section will be as follows: In the basement will be chemical and photographic laboratories. The ground floor will contain synoptic exhibition room and a lecture room, with a capacity of about...
...University. Prof. E. H. Bristol of Hamilton and Dr. Elmer of John Hopkins have been elected assistant professors of Greek and Latin. Prof. B. I. Wheeler succeeds Prof. Flagg in the Greek department and Profs. Hewett and Dudley resume their work after a year's absence in Europe. The central station of the New York department of the United States Signal Service is to be located at Cornell. About $250,000 will be spent on the new library, which will be one of the largest and best equipped in the country, having room for 400,000 volumes. It is expected...
...more men determine to meet here when the bell rings for chapel, that together they may meditate and resolve and together they may ask the God of all strength to help them through; and the daily chapel service takes on, of course, the high dignity of being the central occasion which collects the college, and collects it for its central aim. That aim is, that honorable men, of true and upright life, shall go hence and lead America. You have heard me say it a thousand times. I hope you will say it, each to each other, a thousand times...