Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-21

og our college, Including Princeton
and Yale NJ IlF now between COO and
| 800 students who come from an parts
/ uf Eryut and oven from the Soudnn
] and tHa other countries OF northern
/ Africa. The students represent moro
/ ihan 900 towns throughout the NiIo Nal-
/ lev The graduates are scattered al'
over Egypt Many 0f them arc ingu-
'lr1l business mon. some ore lawyers.
doctors Hnd teachers. and others are
government officials The graduates OF
the school are uNlOuely sought by the
government 1s clerks. Their tainnr
Is considered better than thnt of Oh.
government collegCs whore poo religion
except the Koran ls taught and they
are found t0 pc more trustworthy and
or higher moral character.
MANAGED BY PREsBYTER1ANs
This college De- O. missionary ingtitu-
ton. but d gives good general pduca-
ton. TO Ia run upon broad lines and has
among its students Copts. Mohamme-
dams and Christians. To ig supported by
me United Presbyterian church OF the
United states. This be- about the only
one OF our Protestant denominations
Whlch is doing work here. the other
.iR having apparently given up Egyut
20 it This church has mission stations
scattered throughout the Nile valley.
ana 10 has schools not only iu lower
and upper Egypt. but also On the Sou
dan, and even on the borders OF Abys-
sInia. There are something Ike l50gG
boys now being taught Zoo lts various In
situations. il is surprising that "a large
part OF the money which this mission
is spending upon education comes from
the natives themselves Last wear more
than 100000 was spent. and OF this all
most $4,000 was subscribed by the
HH. HH.H |Haa
schools. more than 1900 are paying tut
ton. 80 that the institutions are largely
self-supporting The Egyptians OF to-
day have learned the value OF modern
school training and they are anxious TO
have their sons go 10 college. They
want them taught English and are an
willing 90 pay something in order that
they may get modern education.
IN AN EGYPTIAN COLLEGE.
went through the Assiout Training
college with It's president. the Rev
John Alexander y. D.. who has been
in charge of the Institution for almost
a generation and 90 whom &c is largely
due that 10 Is the most successful inst-
tuition of It's kind ln northern Africa.
Dr. Alexander Is by birth am Ohioan.
He was educated at Wooster university
and It was shortly after he left there
that he came out 20 Egypt He has
lived In Egypt ever since and he knows
the people and their wants ar well as
any man tn H. He tells me that the
Egyptians are thoroughly aroused as
20 the advantages OF modern education
and that they could use more schools
and better facilities than either the
government or the mission can now
supply. lie tells me that he has 10 re-
fuse many applications for entrance 20
the training college for lack OF room
and that the restitution stands ready
to erect new buildings as soon as d can
raise the money. II has already bought
20 acres Of land at the junction Of the
Nile and the great irrigating canal
which runs from here Co tho Fayoum.
and a now needs only -u appropriation
r0r additional college buildings. Ny
careful examination shows me that
the college a. ably and economically
managed. and I know of NO place where
any one OF our rich men can better In
vest his surplus and have " pay big