The building of the elementary school in Sadd al-Boushrieh

In the village of Sadd al-Boushrieh, twenty minutes by car from Ras Beirut, stands the elementary school attached to the Lebanese University.

The road that leads to the school is bordered now by pines, now by banana groves, and it brings us at last to a verdant knoll, on whose breast sits a stone house of three stories, looking out over Beirut and the sea at once.

My companion on this visit to the elementary school attached to the Lebanese University was the educational expert Mr. Kubetska, the man with the first hand in bringing the idea of the school out into execution... All along the way he talked to me of the obstacles that must be overcome. I listened to him run on with enthusiasm, like a father proud of his child who has just begun to crawl!

No sooner had the school taken us in than he hastened to confer with the school's principal, Miss Nahla Marwa, offering her technical guidance and leaving her a free hand in choosing the schoolbooks for all the classes... inquiring into this matter or that, deciding one question, and solving another problem. I admired his vitality and energy.

Among the things Mr. Kubetska said:

"We are striving to make this school a fit setting for the training of teachers for the elementary schools. We shall open the way for students of the two universities, the Lebanese and the American, to train here. What is truly

From the right: Georges Khater, Paul Hakim, Maurice Khater, and Michel Samaha — the four children who walked two hours to school... talking to the principal about their love for the school.