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...bachelor of science degree was awarded to R. G. Breithut, of New York City, Leonard Horvitz, of New Bedford, P. B. Lemann, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and E. L. Mohl, of Jerusalem, Palestine, as of the Class of 1931. George Crawford, II, of New York City, received the same degree as of the Class of 1928, while W. L. Hansberry, of Washington, D. C., was awarded it as of the Class...
...Commander-in-Chief of the army in India is handsome, grey-haired General Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode. As a cavalryman, he was serving in Burma the year young Rudyard Kipling published Barrack-room Ballads. Under General Sir Edmund Allenby he commanded the 20th Army Corps at the capture of Jerusalem. In 1928 he became Chief of the Indian General Staff, in 1930 succeeded Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood as C.-in-C. His job last week was to keep the army on its toes, bring the British forces in India unobtrusively up to their authorized strength...
...small Bethlehem, jammed with tourists last week, the U. S. chaplain of Jerusalem's Collegiate Church of St. George touched a button which set ringing the bells of St. Thomas and Old Trinity in Manhattan. A great radio audience listened, feeling that this was properly Christmassy...
Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor which today lies ruined in a low, unhealthy marsh, was the traditional home of the Virgin Mary after she left Jerusalem. To Ephesus, in 431, went papal legates, Eastern patriarchs, bishops, to meet in judgment of a grievous heresy. Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared that Mary could not be truly called "Mother of God." Mary, said he, was Mother of Christ in His human nature only. This view, in spite of protests from Rome. Nestorius defended. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, was appointed to inform Nestorius he must recant or be deposed...
...Breasted's Province. From the Persian Gulf up the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, then along the coast of the Mediterranean to Jerusalem lies a great "fertile crescent," skirting the Arabian Desert. By continuing the western tip of this crescent into Egypt to the equally fertile Nile basin, a 3,500-mi. semicircle can be drawn from the Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos...