The Holy Land and Syria . become the Harvard and Yale of the NearEast. It has had thousands of graduates, and its doctorsand lawyers stand at the heads of their professions inEgypt, Syria, Turkey, Persia, and India. It has morethan nine hundred students, all Orientals, representingevery part of the Levant. This institution was founded by Presbyterians, butthe instruction is non-sectarian. The faculty has aboutone hundred and twenty professors, most of themAmericans, and it is a thoroughly up-to-date has a medical department which, with its hospitals,treats thousands of patients a
The Holy Land and Syria . become the Harvard and Yale of the NearEast. It has had thousands of graduates, and its doctorsand lawyers stand at the heads of their professions inEgypt, Syria, Turkey, Persia, and India. It has morethan nine hundred students, all Orientals, representingevery part of the Levant. This institution was founded by Presbyterians, butthe instruction is non-sectarian. The faculty has aboutone hundred and twenty professors, most of themAmericans, and it is a thoroughly up-to-date has a medical department which, with its hospitals,treats thousands of patients a year. It has physical,chemical, and other laboratories, a large library, andethnological and industrial museums devoted to exhibitsfrom Syria and Turkey. During my stay here I have visited the college. Itis beautifully located, the buildings being situated onthe bluffs south of Beirut and running from them downto the sea. Standing upon the campus, which containsabout fifty acres, one faces the glorious Mediterranean, 256. Armenian children begin to make themselves useful at an early of hardships under anti-Christian rulers have made thesepeople resourceful and self-reliant. They are the shrewdest traders ofthe East
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