Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home for the holidays. It will also provide for Christmas presents for the poor families in Cambridge and the Loan-Library. It will enable the Association to give free legal advice in Boston and Cambridge, to maintain one teacher at Robert College, Constantinople, and two graduates at the Beirut Mission in Syria...
...drive is used strictly for outside work. None of it is paid in salaries to the officers or any of the employees of Phillips Brooks House. A large part of the money goes to maintain a teacher at Robert College, Constantinople, and two University graduates representing the Mission at Beirut, Syria. A part of last year's funds was used to maintain a daily Vacation Bible School for the children of Cambridge this summer...
...Cabinet also voted to authorize the Mission Committee to send two teachers to the American university at Beirut, Syria. These men, who will be selected later, will be graduates of the University, probably of this year's Senior class...
...March 9th Mr. Albert W. Staub, Executive Secretary of Robert College, Constantinople and of Beirut University, Syria, spent the day in Cambridge, holding personal interviews with some thirty men with regard to the opportunities in the Near East. On April 6th Mr. Galen M. Fisher, Y. M. C. A. Secretary for Japan, will hold conferences with men on the work that may be done in a missionary way in that country. All the conferences have been held in the Randall Room, Phillips Brooks House...
...Beirut the conditions are more normal since this section of territory is under French control and so is in a better condition to make use of the educational advantages offered. The colleges are non-secretarian and are patronized by all classes of political and social believers. The object is to train leaders in all walks of life to work among their own people. The work which is carried on wholly in English includes courses in Arts and Sciences, Commerce, Engineering, and Medicine...