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149 I. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The College, during 1940-41, has been under the direction and executive leadership of Mr. Worth Howard, Acting Dean, in the absence of Dean Badeau. I wish to pay a high tribute to the efficiency and skill with which he has carried the trying duties of substituting in so exacting a position. His calm and judicial spirit, ht forbearance and restraint, his uniformly courteous speech and manner, added to a capacity for details and the gift of enlisting the hearty cooperation of his associates have contributed greatly to making the year one of outstanding success in the operation of the College as a whole. The large enrolment in the College was a surprise to all and is indeed ground for great encouragement and promise for the future. Indeed an increase of 34 percent in any enterprise, even war work, is occasion for comment; much more so in an educational institution whose staff was depleted in numbers and weaker than formerly in experience. Mr. Nichols who has been in charge of student-getting activities has submitted an extended report analyzing the enrolment and comparing that of this past year which was 364 with that of 1931-32 which marked the highest record in the past, namely, 383. The differences in distribution are as follows: 19317;32 1940-11 London Matriculation Course 122 143 ►senior college Course 42 113 Egyptian Government Course 219 , 108 Total: 383 364 Obviously there is the greatest ground for satisfaction in the increase in students in the College Course leading to the B.A. degree, an increase of 269 per cent. This is in line with our main objective to develop the higher level of education, an aim that is basic in the plans for the suburban buildings. On the other hand, we must not overlook the regrettable lowering of the enrolment in the uovernment Secondary Course from 219 to 108 a loss of 52 per cent. It is true that the Government Secondary Course does not represent our highest educational ideals, that it is Government controlled, that being chiefly taught in =rabic it affords less opportunity for the use and influence of our American staff, that the students are generally of an inferior quality physically, mentally and morally as compared with the students in the two other sectors. All this is true, but the fact remains that while 95 percent of the London Matriculation Course are Egyptians and only 16 percent are Moslems, and of the Senior College course only 63 percent are Egyptians and only 27 percent are Moslems. ode must not lose sieht of the fact that the American University was founded for Egyptians and for Moslems, and that the only way to contribute life and leadership with certainty to Egypt's national life, to its great army of Uovernment officials and to positions of influence in its educational system is to place our imprint on students who have passed through the Government Baccalaurea course successfully. Everything points to an increasing exclusion in Egyptian national life and leadership of foreigners, of non-Arabic speaking persons and perhaps of non-Moslems. tin ounce of success in the Moslem camp, therefore, may then outweigh a ton of success in the Christian camp, and most certainly in the foreign camp. In founding the American University at Cairo we said that we would net our faces like flint against being diverted, as mission after mission has been diverted, from working for Moslems and turning to more easy achieve-ment among foreigners or Christians. -However, the two achievements are not mutually exclusive. Our College and Matriculation gains have had nothing to do with our losses in the Loverument sector. Both gains can be held, given an adequate staff. Indeed the leadership