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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...
...Germany during the last five years the number of university students has increased 26 per cent., while the total population has grown only 50 per cent. One man in every 213 now takes a college course in that country; one in every 200 in the United States; one in every 600 in Scotland...
...time there are only a few men here from that state, and it is always pleasant for students coming from the same section of country to be on more intimate terms with each other than a mere nodding acquaintance. The twin cities of Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, have grown enormously during the past few years and the young men are looking to the east where universities offer more advantages for pursuing different branches of study than the few colleges near their own homes. Aside from the pleasure arising from the social intercourse between the students now in college...
...Harvard men, by a lucky bunching of their hits, a base on balls by Dalzell, and two or three errors of judgment on the part of the Yale fielders, managed to pile up five runs, making the score 7 to 0. From this time on, it must have grown rather dark in the neighborhood of second and third base, or else the umpire lost his eysight, for his base decisions were, to say the least, queer. This discouraged the Harvard men, and seemed to take all the life out of them, and from the fourth inning till...
...practice has grown up as a result of the recent robberies in the yard. A student in Matthews was aroused last night by one of the night-watchmen and requested to get up and close his door, which he had left open...