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Appendix A 17, r Schedule A-Page 7 Against this attitude we must protest. We cannot sacrifice our individuality and our ideals if we are to fulfill our function. We do not intend to become just one more Government School in Cairo. Our Egyptian teachers must also be taught to catch our educational ideals, and if they cannot, then men of a more progressive type must be secured. Our present policy seems to be the right one. We are departing from the Ministry's system at so:,►e points in an effort to raise our standards. Higher standards will keep up our record of passes in the Government exa::,in-ations, and this in turn will bring more and better students. As conducted under this plan, our Government Course is now attracting the largest number of students we have ever had. While our reputation will rest on the result of the Government Exa:>>inations and we must first strive for passes in these, yet, in the long run our unique reputation can only be made by doing other things as well as passing boys through examinations. Our different methods will probably continue to irritate students, and perhaps Egyptian teachers, until the day comes when our reputation will be so high that it will be a difficult privilege to obtain a place in our Government Course. (c) The Arabic Language Croup: A year ago Ahmad Eff. Zayyat succeeded Amir Eff. Boktor as Chairman of this Group. From the start he had difficulty with the two other Arabic teachers in the Group, both of whom, being his seniors, resented Zayyat's promotion to the chairmanship. Nevertheless, his report herewith is something of a bomb, so devastating is it to his two coll-eagues. Whether it is a case of "a new broom sweeping clean" or an honest statement of their weaknesses is still to be determined. Both men have taught with us for several years, Ismail having been with us since we opened. They have been faced with the charges of their failures which of course they derby. The investigation of the charges is still going on at this time. Ismail Effendi's contract expired this year and no new one has been given him, al-though he is to teach again next year without a definite contract. Ambar's contract has one more year to run. The chances are that he will be dropped then, since, even without this unsatisfactory report of Ahmad Eff. Zayyat's, there was a strong feeling growing that he was not the type of modern liberal-minded Egyptian needed for an institution such as ours. A word of appreciation for Zayyat's work is in order, particularly for his initiative in launching our first Arabic dramatics. (d) Social Science Group; Mr. Kiven's most excellent report for this group is complete and needs no comment. (e) Science Group: Mr. 'cÇuiston's detailed report herewith attached indicates that the Science Group has at last gotten into its stride. This Group, because of its heterogeneity has been the most difficult to weld into a unit. Its work this year has more nearly approximated our ideals for a Science Group than that of any preceding year. Yet evidence that the Group is not a perfect unit is seen in a report from Mr. Vandersall attached herewith. In this he refers to a recommendation in his Mathematics Group report that Physics should be separated from the Science Group and joined with Mathematics to remake a Physics-► athematics Group