Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dodge, who holds degrees from Princeton, Columbia, and Union Theological Seminary, has both taught and learned from the Syrian peoples in his twelve years of work at the American University of Beirut...
...Dodge began his work at Beirut as University Y. M. C. A. secretary. During the World War he carried the double load of school duties and relief work among the refugees and war victims. In the latter he promulgated the idea of giving the Syrians work to do, such as roadmaking, sewing, and weaving, at the same time that relief was administered. Mr. Dodge's intimate labors in this activity made him highly popular in Asia Minor...
Election to the presidency of the American University of Beirut in 1922 is Mr. Dodge's latest honor. He is the third president of the University, in which are now enrolled 1215 students of 25 nationalities...
...Harvard Dedge, President of the American University of Beirut, Syria, will give a lecture at the Union tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Dodge will speak on "The Educational Problems of the Near East," a matter to which he has devoted himself for many years...
Three generations of Dodges have interested themselves in educational and relief work in the Near East. William Earl Dodge, father of Cleveland H. Dodge, was the first President of the American College at Beirut, a position now filled by his grandson, Bayard Dodge, on a salary of $1.00 a year. Miss Grace Dodge, sister of Cleveland, was President of the Constantinople Woman's College until her death; while a daughter is the wife of George W. Huntington, who is Vice President of Robert College...