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iss professional character of these years of advanced study (i:e. in advance of Government standards) will attract more students to it. The Goverment Secondary Course, which we are offering in Arabic end which the Trustees felt should be maintained, has been operated with the usual success and limitation. It has been a link between us and the national system of education in Egypt. As a proof of the good will of the Ministry of Education, a grant of L.E.100 has been paid to us. Most significant however are the future possibilities of this course if certain reforms pledged by the new and bt1liant Minister of Education, Naguib el "ilali Bey, are carried out. His Report condemned the Goverment course at the very points at which our College faculty had felt so outraged by its quality and spirit that they had reco mended its discontinuz&nce. Should the -minister's Report really become effective, it would be possible for us to achieve many of our high educational ideals in and through the Government course instead of through foreign courses, whether British or America. At any rate the outlook is very hopeful for our future cooperation in the Egyptian system of education. Most eager will the Trustees be to learn what success has attended the new system of Optional or rather alternative, courses in respect to religious educa-tion. The classes, teachers and subjects taught were as follows: Mr. Kiven - "Biographies of Great Men" - Form IV and conscientious objectors of Forms V & VI Dean Galt - "Gospel of Mark and II Kings" - Form VI, 9 Christians, 3 Moslems, and 3 Jews, offering bible in the London Examinations. Dr. McClenahan - "An Introduction to the Bible" - Form V Dean Galt - "The Modern Use of the Bible" - Sophomore Class. Dr. C. C. Adams "Introduction to Philoaophy" - Juniors and Seniors. Abdel Gawad - "Government hthics Course" - Third Year Government No one available - None - Fifth Year Government It should be explained that the difficulties of. handling Fifth Year Gov-ernment are so great, in respect to language (Arabic) , to religious sensitive-ness (mostly Moslems ) and a crowded curriculum, that it requires a person of the highest equipment to carry such a course successfully with this class and no one with the necessary equipment was available. As to the operation of the daily Assembly period, Dean Galt reports, "The launching of the alternative exercises was a most difficult task in connection with the Assembly exercises. The Faculty feared that unless the matter was properly presented, the non-Christian students might bolt complete] to the secular meeting. Consequently, all the students of the College were requested to attend two regular Assembly exercises in order to see the nature of them. After this, they were allowed to make their choice. Uf the 82 non-Christian students only 15 voted to attend the alternative." Much else of interest concerning the College is reported by Dean Galt, but space forbids its inclusion here. Tbere are valuable reports on the year's experiences in Biology, Phsycis, Chemistry, English, French, the Social Sciences, outside field work, athletics and extra-curricular activities, and on the Scholarship Grants. re pass these by regretfully and conclude with a statistical summary. Enrollment Statistics: Forms IV - VI, 51; College (Sophomore, Junior, Senior), 29; Government, 75; Total, 155. New students, 74; old, 81. Men, 142