Word: church
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mohammedan church is divided into 73 sects, which differ from each other in church government and ritual and also in regard to the doctrines of free will and predestination. There are two main sects, the Sunnites, or Orthodox, and the Shiites, or Sectaries. The latter belong to the party of Ali, the son-in-law and successor of Mohammed, and regard his descendants as the only legitimate Caliphs. Thus the Caliphs after Ali are considered as usurpers...
...Amherst Student and the "Lit." have commenced a crusade against compulsory church and chapel attendance...
...second annual fall handicap road race of the Bicycle Club will occur this afternoon over the ten-mile course through North Cambridge, West Somerville and Arlington. The race will start at 4.10 sharp, and will finish on Garden street, in front of Christ Church. Riding on sidewalks in the race will not be allowed, and any contestant doing so will be ruled out. The first three men will receive cups. In order that the men may be properly checked by the checkers at Arlington, numbers will be given the men which must be worn on the chest. The handicaps...
...several libraries of Yale University is over 190,000, to which may be added 75,000 unbound pamphlets. The University Library has 135,000 volumes: the Linonian and Brothers Library 30,000; the Law Library 9,000: the Sheffield Scientific School 6,000; the Lowell Mason Library of Church Music 4,000; the Trowbridge Reference Library of the Divinity School 3,000; while in addition should be mentioned libraries of the art and medical schools. About 7,000 volumes are added to the different libraries every year. The largest circulation, it is found, is in the senior class, next...
...again on Warren Street till it meets Broadway. Turn to the right and go around the triangle again. Then back towards the starting point till near the common; here turn to the right and go via Waterhouse Street to Garden Street, past the Annex and finish opposite Christ Church...