Children of the Lebanese Women's League kindergarten performing a charming dance at the annual ceremony
Beirut College for Women is distinguished as the highest purely women's institute, not in Lebanon alone but in the whole Arab East. The college's ceremony was set for June 23, and the number of those who obtained their degree this year exceeded a hundred students. The garden of the college, on its open hilltop, was packed with guests, most of them of the chosen class; and the graduating students paraded in their traditional black gowns to the strains of music, the institute's teaching staff walking behind them, and then the speakers.
The speaker of the ceremony was Mrs. Edvick Jureidini Shayboub, who spoke on the subject of "Positive Creation"; her address is published in this issue.
The second speaker was Mr. Fuad Sarruf, who spoke in English, setting forth the meanings of true values as measured by his experience and the breadth of his learning.
The ceremony of the model kindergarten and the primary school of the Lebanese Women's League was the height of taste and splendor. Crowds of children took part in carrying out the program of the ceremony in their charming white clothes; they sang, danced, and acted in the three languages, French, English,
and Arabic, meeting with approval and warm applause.
Mrs. Edvick Jureidini Shayboub spoke at this ceremony too, touching on the importance of the role of childhood in this age and on [...] the awakening of the Lebanese to this reality, and she closed by saying: All that we spend upon our little ones is little, for the sake of building their character, quickening their morale, and preparing them for a life of national pride and dignity.
The ceremony of the "Modern Institute"
The spacious hall of the "Modern Institute" for sewing and dressmaking proved too small, on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 16, for those who attended its delightful ceremony for conferring diplomas on the students who had won them, under the patronage of
His Excellency the Minister of National Education. Speeches were delivered, all attesting to the institute's advance and to the leap forward of the true Lebanese woman, embodied in that distinguished ceremony. And the splendid poem composed by the Ustad, the proprietor of the newspaper al-Iqdam, and recited at the ceremony by his daughter Miss Renée Nasr, had its happy effect upon every heart.
"The Woman's Voice" appreciates the efforts of this excellent institute and its renaissance, whose signs and fruits have begun to show, which moves us to draw the attention of guardians to lending their support to those who conduct it.
On June 18 Ahliah National College held its thirty-third annual ceremony for the dis
Mrs. Widad Cortas delivering the opening address
The directress of the "Modern Institute" for sewing and dressmaking, surrounded by the students who won the diploma