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Christians have always been puzzled by the Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
Judas on the Cross? "The objective is not, as the Crusaders believed, the repossession of what Christendom has lost, but the restoration to Moslems of the Christ they have missed ... It aims not to have the map more Christian but Christ more widely known." First task, Author Cragg argues, is to erase the monumental Moslem misunderstandings of Christianity for which the Christian church itself is partly responsible...
...discussing the tricks of cross-examination, Leibowitz urged that law schools form departments of forensic psychology to train students in this art. He maintained that law students should "cram in" courses in public speaking unless they wanted to spend their lives not in trial law but "in an office with 20 names on the door...
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 2--Harvard's longest extant undefeated string came to an inglorious ending this afternoon as the powerful Yale cross country team edged out the varsity 26 to 29 on a rain-soaked Princeton course. The Crimson did beat their Tiger hosts, however...
...confident and determined cross country team will leave the Harvard Club in New York at noon, and entrain for Princeton, where it will face the Tigers and Yale in the most crucial meet of the season this afternoon...