• On the twenty-seventh of last February, Miss Marie-Ange Abi Saleh delivered a lecture at the Nadwa on the subject: New Lines in Education and the Extent of Their Application in Lebanon. Miss Abi Saleh is one of our brilliant young women in the field of education; she lately spent three years in France, practicing its concerns in the universities and the psychological laboratories and under its masters in European circles generally. In the first part of her lecture she gave proof of a wide acquaintance with the various currents that have worked their good work upon the rising generation, and with the tendencies of teaching in the Latin and Anglo-Saxon schools. In the light of these new lines in education she reviewed the actual state of teaching in Lebanon, recording its good and constructive face while also criticizing its harmful blemishes, and she concluded by defining the foundations on which education in Lebanon must rest.
Her observations came out conscious, deep, and true; we could wish that those concerned with the affairs of teaching among us, responsible and otherwise, would take them up.
- And on the twelfth of March
came the turn of Mrs. May Fayyad at the Nadwa. Mrs. Fayyad is one of the ladies of cultivated Lebanese society; her activity works for good among circles and persons, and she creates about her an atmosphere fragrant with patriotism, truth, and constructive beauty. Nor may we omit to mention here that our woman of letters gathers in her home, every two weeks, a circle of our young men and girls in sweet evening converse over intellectual matters generally — literature, poetry, and music. The Nadwa was most happily advised
when it entrusted Mrs. Fayyad to speak to the patrons of its hall on civic consciousness and the aspiration toward beauty. The lecturer ranged deep among the concepts of civic consciousness in general, applying these concepts to our Lebanese reality, calling for the cultivation of this sense in all our hearts, that it may remain a stout hedge about the homeland, pointing to the beauties of our
earth and our sky, and urging the preservation of our sweet natural climate. Mrs. May Fayyad's lecture was a talk from heart to heart, one that minds will absorb, that Lebanon may abide in safety and hope, ever looking toward the loftier and the more beautiful.
On the afternoon of the 20th of this month this school held a reception day, to which it invited the mothers of its boy and girl pupils, to increase cooperation and understanding between the home and the school; the invitation won the parents' approval, and the attendance was great.
The principal of the school, Miss Alice Abd al-Nur, invited Mrs. Sabiha Faris to speak during the visit on an educational subject. She treated the problem of the child between home and school and what he needs, and did so excellently and profitably; at the end the mothers pressed forward, asking Mrs. Faris about certain difficulties they meet in bringing up their children, and she answered them with every pleasure and clarity — which stirred admiration and thanks to the school's administration for the opportunities it affords parents to cooperate with the school for the good of their children.
• Mrs. Asma Tubi is one of our sober women of letters, and her writing is distinguished by a guiding bent — humane, moral, and patriotic. Last month she delivered a lecture at the National College in Aley which made the finest impression, leading the school's administration to undertake its printing and its distribution among the pupils, in response to the insistent demand... She then delivered a second lecture at the English school, the B. S. T. C., and every success attended her. May God multiply the likes of Mrs. Asma Tubi — and let readers await a delightful article from her in the coming issue.