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...death of Cleopatra in 30 B. C., when the Ptolemaic dynasty came to an end, Egypt became a part of the Roman Empire and was governed by the Romans until 639 A. D. From that date until 1517, Egypt passed through a series of quasi-independent dynasties under the suzerainty of the Abbasid Caliphs at Bagdad (the second of the two great dynasties of the Mahommedan Empire). From 1517 until 1914 Egypt was an integral part of the Ottoman Empire, with the exception of the years 1798 to 1801, which mark the period of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign...
...most significant news of this week is the meeting in Zürich of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. This alliance includes all Christian churches of the world except the Roman Catholic. It holds that the League is the best means of international justice and friendship and says that the task of the churches of every land is to inspire among their people an enthusiasm for the great conception of the League and a willingness to labor for its complete realization. A committee of 26, containing both French and German members, presented a report urging that...
...meeting of the Classical Club this evening officers will be elected for the coming year and a paper entitled "The Truth About Roman History" will be presented for discussion by A. M. Young 1G. The meeting will be held in the club's room in the Union at 8 o'clock...
...century" the library was far from being complete. A writer in the "American Jurist" in 1841 said that though the departments of English and American law were nearly complete, "there is a great deal to be desired in some departments of general jurisprudence". There were almost no books on Roman law, suited for the modern student; on criminal law and prison discipline; on public law and the philosophy of law; or on German law, which were being produced in great numbers at that time...
Some city churches already have daily vacation Bible schools for the summer months. The Gary plan provides a definite time for religious instruction. The parochial schools of the Roman Catholics provide religious and secular instruction. The Protestants have no national scheme of combining these two fields of instruction...