Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring. In addition to those previously announced, the list, includes Dean Brown of Yale, the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, minister of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, Charles W. Gilkey '03, pastor of Baptist Church, Chicago, Dr. Zwemer from Arabia, authority on Mohammedanism at the University of Cairo, David Yui of China, and J. Stitt Wilson, a well-known labor leader and lecturer from California. These men will address the Conference in the mornings and evenings and will offer as well the opportunity for personal discussion with the individual members of the delegations...
...expedition reached Gebel Barkal from Cairo on January 24 fast," says Dr. Reisner in his report. "We worked there three months, employing a force of about 300 local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...
...that war has been turned into a dismal science, and no, more strange countries--only wastes of Arctic snow--remain to be explored--The record of the latest discoveries of the Harvard Egyptian Expedition, under Dr. George A. Reisner, as related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward, to plunge once more and to bend northward again...
...Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions held in Kansas City, Missouri, from December 31 to January 4. 5,031 registered delegates from about 800 institutions attended the meeting. The chairman of the convention was Dr. John R. Mott, and among the speakers were Samuel M. Zwemer, of Cairo, Egypt; Robert E. Speer, of New York; G. S. Eddy, of the International Young Men's Christian Association; and William Jennings Bryan...
...Almeh" by J. R. Dos Passos is a sketch set in Cairo. It seems oddly old-fashioned, like some story written in the sixties or seventies, for it is overloaded with unnecessary details and the dialogue is bookish. The start is slow; the emotions of Mansford are not so treated as to rouse the eager sympathy which will give the surprise at the end its full value. Such a sketch falls if it is ungenuinely dramatic and this...