Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational Renaissance is sweeping the Near East," declared President Dodge of the American University of Beirut, at the Union last night...
...Near East peoples now sense the value of education in training men who can build a prosperous and united Turkey," was Mr. Dodge's observation. "Consequently they are sending their children, of varied birth and training, to the universities. The ensuing polyglot of creeds and races means a real educational problem for us, but the results are marked and real...
...school does not proselytize in religion, but by its influence leads away from the formalism of the older generation. I once saw an old Moslem, when the muezzin sounded, try to pray to the east while riding on a tramear. The curves kept him jumping. But that mechanical, ostentatious religion is being left behind by the educated...
...Bayard Dodge's experience as president of an America-Syrian university, as a practical worker in Near East Relief work, and as a Y. M. C. A. secretary abroad will be drawn upon in his talk on "Educational Problems of the Near East" at 7.30 o'clock tonight at the Union...
...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...