The Ahliah College Ceremony

Ahliah Girls' College celebrated the distribution of certificates to its graduates on the afternoon of Friday, June 14 last. That ceremony was the forty-first in the history of the Ahliah, which at the close of every school year sends forth a new class of cultivated, conscious young women — to safeguard this homeland, and to work for its uplift and its reform.

The ceremony was under the patronage of the Minister of Education, Dr. Charles Malik. But he excused himself from attending and from speaking on account of an indisposition, and Mr. Fouad Sawaya, the director of education, stood in for him.

The address with which the president of the institute, the great educator Mrs. Widad Cortas, bade the graduates farewell made a fine impression upon the graduates and the audience; it was as though she meant by it to press out the light she had kindled for the students throughout their years of study, and to place it in their hands, that with it they might face life and its hardships..