Word: soudan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religious differences between Persia and Turkey would make a great religious movement impossible. Isolated attempts at a religious crusade. like that which marked the rise of Islam, may succeed temporarily. The Mahdi in the Soudan may hold out for a time against the force sent against him. The intelligent Moslems, however, realize the utter hopelessness of an assault upon the Christian powers...
...much to attract the attention of the average reader. An article on the "Battles of the Thirty Years' War," fully illustrated by maps, will be found an important aid to the work done in some of our history courses. The detailed account of recent events in Egypt and the Soudan, accompanied by an excellent map, is a timely addition to our information on current topics. Despite the announcement made by the Army and Navy Gazette, the United Service is not yet extinct...
Fancy a wild charge of yelling Arabs against some lonely zereba in the dusty Soudan, and some faint conception may be reached of the scene that invariably follows the close of a game on either Jarvis or Holmes. No sooner is the last man put out, or the winning run scored than the cream of Cambridge muckerdom rises, and sweeps over the barriers with the resistless power of a tidal wave, overwhelming players and spectators alike in the mad rush. Such is the state of affairs. There is a remedy. At every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired...
...following is a brief description of the scheme: A general division into Foreign news and American news; the foreign news to be subdivided into political, economic, social, etc., as for example, the Congo Conference, the Soudan Question, the Franco-Chinese War, Dynamitism, Nihifists, Socialists, and Anarchists, etc.; American news to be subdivided in the same way, for example: The Nicaragua Treaty, Reciprocity Treaties, the Negro Question (including the Negro Scare following the last election), the Silver Question, Strikes, Trades-unions, Monopolies, Civil Service Reform...