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...Mohammedan Doctors and Saints. Illustrated Lecture Professor Toy. Upper Boylston...
...series of four lectures will be given by Prof. Toy this evening at 7.30 in Upper Boylston. In this series of lectures Prof. Toy will touch upon the whole subject of Moslem civilization, and particularly of Mohammed and the Koran. He will also take up the history of Mohammedan religious ideas, Arabic literature and the present condition of Arabian affairs. The lectures are the result of the thorough study which Professor Toy has made of the subject during his recent sojourn in Europe. They will be illustrated with the stereopticon which, as many of the pictures which will be shown...
...General Daniel Pratt, G. A. T., delivered the first lecture in his annual autumn course, at the steps of Memorial Hall yesterday. His subject was "The Political Situation in Prussia and Mohammedan, With a Glance at the Solar System, and Remarks upon Mr. Blaine as a Poet." He also stated that the fundamental basis of Harvard College is lawn tennis...
...Mohammedan University nine hundred years older than Oxford, is still flourishing at Cairo, as in the days of Arabian conquests. It contains but one room, the floor is paved, and the roof is supported by four hundred columns. Ten thousand students are said to have been educated there to preach the Moslem faith...
...instruction given comprehends all degrees of advancement, from the first rudiments of the language to the most erudite disquisitions on mathematics, logic, philosophy, grammar, theology, and Mohammedan religion and law according to the different rites. The errors in both natural and mental science that must be transmitted from generation to generation, by the fanatical intolerance which bars out all "new-fangled" notions may be imagined, but it is doubtful whether their scholastic ignorance goes quite so far as is related of the college engineers, in Constantinople. not many years ago. A committee of foreign engineers had been invited...