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There are six young men of Kuwait who are attending Arab schooli
in Basrah and Baghdad. Two of them have gone there at the expense
of their own families, while the others are assisted by benevolent Arabs.*'
Two of these young men were formerly teachers in the Ahmadiya School
and it is expected that they will return qualified to make that school of
the secondary grade. The others are receiving training that will cuubl« h
them to he imams, or religious leaders. They seem to he studying some Z
modern branches, including English, in addition to the usual 1 atomic v
studies. Most of these boys had learned some English in our Mission
school. . .
One young man, also a former student in the Mission school has done
a new thing in Kuwait. He has enrolled in the International Corres­
pondence School, of London. He is taking a complete commercial
course. It will cover a good many years and the cost will be consider- I

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able, but it will probably be worth all it costs, especially if he should go >3
into business for himself.

The Mission School

The Mission school differs from the others in Kuwait, for one thin*,
in the emphasis placed upon English. I he whole afternoon is given to
that study. The readers used provide liible passages and other lesson,
in the Christian religion. In the morning instruction is given in Arabic
reading, grammar and composition, arithmetic, geography and history. H*
assistant teacher is an Assyrian who has had four or hve years training
in Arabic in a Catholic school in Mosul. Since our school omits the
Koran and all Islamic studies most of our pupils come to us after (her ;
have finished learning the Koran, although lately one very )oung Arab ^
boy is being sent to us. The enrollment, now numbering twenty, in­
cludes one Jew, one Negro, and the rest Arabs and Persians. 3
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