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...STORY-Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola-Knopf...
...Author Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit...
...annual undergraduate dinner of the Harvard chapter of Phi Bata Kappa will be held at the Hotel Victoria this evening at 7 O'clock. Professor Josiah Royce of the Department of Philosophy and Dean Hurlbut will speak. H. C. Place '14 is orator, and C. P. Curtis, Jr., '14, poet, for the evening. Representatives from Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania chapters will be present...