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vision of Mr. Gibbons, our former assistant librarian. Our anxieties are serious for next year when he will no longer be with us to keep our library procedure en regle. We have, of course, an Egyptian helper whose usefulness has increased with the years, but he is quite untrained in the larger significances and re-quirements of a library. During the past year, there has been a very credit-able use of the Library. Circulation went up to 5967 and the Library itself has become an attractive center for work. Our institution is practically the only educational institution in Cairo and perhaps in Egypt, unless Assiut be an exception, that teaches students even of the secondary grades to make use of a library in the assignments of scholastic work. The total circulation of books has forged slightly ahead of last year. It was 5967, but in its ratio to the number of students we had, it was less than last year. It is to be noted however that students in the Govern-ment courses based on a purely text-book method of teaching. Increased en-rollment in those classes, therefore, pulls down the average for the circulation of books per student. (3) The Hostel or Students' Hall: Nothing but the painstaking over-sight of Mr. Wuertenberger has brought the administration of the Hostel with-in striking distance of our resources, including both grants and student pay-ments. It will be remembered that Bishop Gwynne kindly reduced conditionally by $500 the rental on our building and the Trustees also established a sinking fund of $1,000 to cover deficits, with the understanding that both accounts would share proportionately in the shortages. It is gratifying to find that by concentrating scholarship grants to a degree upon students in the Hostel, it has been possible to come through the year with an approximate balancing of our accounts. While this method of reinforcing our income in is not satis-factory, it gives us time to find ourselves with reference to the continuance of residential students. The ages of students ran from 15 to 24 years, which makes discipline more difficult. Of the 24 students, 15 were Egyptians; of the total, 11 were Moslems. Mr. Wuertenberger's report deals with numerous problems or factors in the life of the Hostel: discipline, social life, smoking. He modestly concludes, "The Hostel enjoyed a year that was a distinct improve-ment over the past two years, but which was at the same time far below the standard potentially possible." It is the President's belief that a decision must be made soon whether to continue a residential section for the College. Its values religiously and morally are very great. But if it is to continue, it must be given a House-master, preferably a married man. (4) Land and Buildings: (a) City Site: During the past winter, the new street operations disfigures our property for a time, necessitating the tearing down of our old boundary wall, the building of a new enclosure, the planting of new trees, the remodelling of our athletic grounds and running track and the readjustment of garden plots. The final results however were very gratifying. The new street cuts our property off clearly from the buildings to the north of us, affords us now three street frontages and gives us on the great boulevard of Kasr el Aini a distinctiveness which we did not have before when we were merely a section of a long street frontage. During the summer, the outside of our buildings were color-washed or scraped, ,a renovation which was long due after a seven year interval, so that, as the University opened this fall, the entire property gave such an impression of beauty with its striking Moorish architecture and its buildings gleaming in the sunlight with a soft cream white tint, that two Uairo newspapers made public comment upon the attractiveness of our Uni-versity equipment and inserted pictures of the building. 1