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...Tercentenary Celebration in their robes of black, scarlet, gold. Up to President James Bryant Conant and Harvard's Fellows, waiting on the dusty stage, they filed like graduates in some fabulous commencement. First, according to seniority, came swarthy Professor Saleh Hashem Attia from that most ancient university, Al-Azhar, founded at Cairo in 970 A. D. Lanky, bespectacled President Conant, trying to keep the golden tassel of his mortarboard from slipping forward as he bowed, pumped Professor Attia's hand, drawled: "How do you do?" Next came delegates from Bologna, Paris, Oxford. Then up to the stage marched...
...evil intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue tax exemption to missionary institutions, withdraw subsidies for mission schools. One hundred and fifty thousand pounds would be saved annually for State schools and welfare work. The petition was concurred in by the present rector of Al Azhar University Sheikh Ahmedi el Zaharawi, who promptly gave ?200 to an anti-mission fund. This reporters took to mean that the Government was interested, that things looked bad for the Christians. Half a dozen U. S. Protestant societies and two churches-Seventh Day Adventists and United Presbyterians-have missions in Egypt...
...Missionary to the Moslem world. When the issue is Cross against Crescent he is proud to stick at nothing. Therefore it was but characteristic that Dr. Zwemer should have been caught red handed at Cairo, last week, in the act of proselytizing students at the Mohammedan University of El-Azhar...
Next day Professor Sheik Kankalouni of the University of El-Azhar, wrote passionately to an Arabic newspaper in Cairo: "The tracts of Zwemer have caused such unrest among our students that, but for the wisdom of the lecturers, the matter might have had most serious results." A like view was taken by the Ministry of Pious Foundations which demanded that officials of the U. S. Legation at Cairo should confiscate from Dr. Zwemer a permit which he has been granted to enable him to visit mosques. Pugnacious Dr. Zwemer stated that he would not give up the permit...
Cairo, Egypt, has its fundamentalists. Dr. Taha Hussein., blind poet, went on trial there last week, charged with traducing in poetry the infallibility of the Koran. There are statements in the latter "which must not be accepted as historically accurate," he ventured to say. The Moslem University of El-Azhar, outraged at the charge, supports the prosecution. One lawyer defending the poet has been ostracized by his family...