Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
Montgomery Gibson, Yale, '92, a son of Senator Randall S. Gibson of Louisiana, has been missing from college for a week, and detectives are now searching for him. He is known to have cashed a check for several hundred dollars a week ago, but has not been seen since, either by his classmates or by the college athorities...
...club house, 11 West Twenty-second street. Francis O. French, recently elected president, presided. The meeting was terminated by a supper. Several new members were elected, among them H. Clifford Watson, the coach of last year's crew; Francis Peabody, jr.; George R. Agassiz, a son of the naturalist, and Judge Ward McAllister, jr., a son of Ward McAllister of New York...
Professor Bocher is at present at La Part Dieu, Switzerland. His son, Maxime Bocher, who has been travelling in Germany this summer, is now studying at Gottingten...
Harry Rust Merrill, '90, died yesterday morning from hemorrhage of the lungs. He entered college in the class of '89, but on account of continued ill health was obliged to drop into the class of '90. He was the son of Henry R. Merrill of Haverhill and was 20 years...