Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most prestigious of colleges is the American University of Beirut, largest U.S. educational center abroad. A.U.B.'s grads include a recent Syrian Prime Minister (now U.N. delegate), the Lebanese Minister to the U.S. Among former Beirut teachers: Vassar's President Emeritus Henry Noble MacCracken...
...Veils, No Skirts. In 1925, when A.U.B. introduced coeducation to the Lebanon, it did much to liberate Near Eastern women. Today unveiled Moslem girls mingle with men on the Mediterranean-edged campus, play tennis in shorts. Beirut's 1,000 graduate doctors now battle trachoma, typhus, malaria throughout the Near East. With 42 nationalities and 30 religious sects among its 2,463 students, A.U.B. is a "perpetual peace conference...
...teachers sailing last week, 45 were recruits (several just out of uniform), the rest old hands returning with their families for another three-year hitch. Eleven of the party belonged to one family, the Blisses, which have given the American University of Beirut two presidents, a president's wife, three professors...
...Istanbul Woman's College, the American College of Sofia, the American School for Boys at Baghdad, the American University of Beirut, International College (also at Beirut), Athens College, Damascus College in Syria (founded in September...
After a year in New York and Washington, Linen was sent overseas to inspect and coordinate O.W.I.'s outposts in the Eastern Mediterranean and India. For eight months he shuttled around among Algiers, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and New Delhi - then came home for a brief stint in O.W.I.'s Washington headquarters...