Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Syrian Protestant College, Beirt, Syria, 1896
Local affairs are administered by a Board of Managers, consisting principally of the missionaries in Syria. Preparatory instruction began in 186 5 the College itself was opened the following year, and the Medical School in 1867. The language of the College is English, with a course in the vernacular for Arabic-speaking students. The College occupies a conspicuous site upon a bluff over looking the Mediterranean and a portion of Beirut with its harbor, and nearly forty miles of the summits and slopes of Mt. Lebanon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
