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...Westerners idolize your Colonel T. E. 'Lawrence of Arabia' " observed in Cairo last week the Sheik Mustapha El Maraghi, rector of the Egyptian capital's 1,000-year-old Moslem University. "You credit Lawrence entirely with the success of the revolt of the Arabs against the Turks. You Westerners do not know that not even a hundred Lawrences could have aroused the Arabs against their Caliph, the Turkish Sultan, had it not been for the almost unlimited amount of gold sovereigns Lawrence had at his disposal. There is very little, if anything, a Bedouin would...
...Gethsemane diorama was lately on view at Diorama Corp.'s Chicago offices. A Mrs. Ryan viewed it and, unaware that it is animated by electric motors, fainted when Christ's head moved. She told her good friend, Trinity's Rector Frederic Sydney Fleming, this experience and he got President Burdick to lend the diorama, valued at $7,500, for the Easter season...
...Mount St. Alban-Rev. Dr. Noble Cilley Powell of Baltimore. Alabama-born 45 years ago, handsome Noble Powell was an entomologist, investigating the boll weevil for the Department of Agriculture, before he went to the Uni-versity of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, became a priest in 1921. As rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church near Charlottesville and Episcopal chaplain at the university, he missionized among both students and hillbillies in the nearby Ragged Mountains. For the past five years the highly successful rector of Emmanuel Church in downtown Baltimore, Dr. Powell lately declined to be nominated...
...presbyters," no more potent than other priests. A typical, evangelical Reformed Episcopalian is Bishop Higgins, who acquired a touch of Presbyterianism at Princeton Seminary, whither he went after attending Columbia and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia. Since his ordination in 1928, affable Churchman Higgins, a bachelor, has been rector of New York's First Reformed Episcopal Church. In 1930 he persuaded his congregation of 400 to build the church and apartment house in which he was consecrated, a 14-story building in East Soth Street which, almost alone among Manhattan skyscraper churches, has consistently shown a profit...
...School (Protestant Episcopal) in Philadelphia announced a new "clinical" course of study which will give its students the longest scholastic year -eleven months-of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans Jr., 46, Wartime chaplain and for the past nine years the successful rector of Trinity parish, Hewlett, L. I., the new plan provides for hospital, social service and prison work for the Divinity School's so-odd students, under the supervision of experienced physicians, hospital and prison chaplains, wardens, welfare workers. For the first time seminarians may witness, and assist...