The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-27
American High School
Popular All Over
Land
MANY CONVERTED
TO CHRISTIANITY
Sons of Royalty and
Poor Rub Shoulders
In Play and Work
BY The RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.

Since America has gone 20 school
to Omar Khsyyam. & is but turn
about" that bis land. ancient Per
sia. should sit az the teet O, young
America. and now there is under
way a project 20 give the and OF
! the Medes and Persians. IA - time
OF transition. a nlldedged Amer
can college The only one IA The en-
pire The new college Is the nat
ursl outgrowth OF an American higA
school which has made a deep den;
in the life OF modern Teheran.
Because he enterprise wears the
technical tag. foreign missions
most Americans are not aware ~
the unique and UNNECESSARILY inau-
en,iai work done ~ this country II
promoting modern education II re
I Oldest nations OF the earth Ameri-
can schools-that Is American n
their character. support AID sc.
ministration rof az grades, from
Kindergarten 10 university are found
In practically all OF the non-Chris-
tlan countries Some OF them have
been really determinative 81 the des
TIMES OF the awakened peoples
Wha, Syrian Protestant college,
az Beirut. and Robert college. II
Constantinople and the American
College for Women on the Bosphor
Us, have done for the recent devet
opment OF the Levant IL known %
ali students % the near east Shsr
ing this power with them. Ind tho
| praise they merit. ar- e group u
other American colleges and lower
schools scattered thruout Turkey
Thousands Of tourists know and
| have praised the American schools
in Egypt. an educational system
that is 20 be crowned by univer.
sity al Cairo Japan. Korea. and
I China. Burma. India and he Straits
settlements Africa and the Sou III
Sea Islands Mexico and South
American countries. all are fields -
this extraordinary ministry By The
American Christian educator IN
the entire realm q aliruism there Is
scarcely "a more notable exhibit
than this rs ramihcaiions ar
manifold For enc thing the Ame-
lean school teacher has been an M
ternational factor n enhancing the
prestige and power OF his countrys
flag
IN the Land Of "The Great King ="
Latest OF all the ancient nations
mothers OF civilizations 20 receive
an opportunity for modern edpca-
ton al the hands % ,he American
schoolmaster is Persia. the home y
philosophy. poetry and most ancient
literature Of oroastrianisu. Prori
I Persia. which once ruled The world
under tho g-eaf king Cyrus
which dealt literally with Tho exile4
JeES OF tho old Testament aad r.
stored them 20 their native land
which was he home Of Daniel and
Esther and the land ot immortal
stories in Biblical and classical IT,.
erafure-this alluring land Sc being
Jed Intentionally BIZ 'he mission.
aries u the American Presbyterian
church
= Pennsylvania farmer boy. fron
York county, the Rev 8 " Jordan.
. ID Is al present the head q the
American high school In Tsheran
and be is IN this country IN the r..
; terest % The new COLLEGE Under
his direction the school, which made
humble beginning A. years ago
has reacher is utmost capacity. a
$40 pupils So notable o factor has
b the institution become ID The III,
, Of the nation that the American
ministers 20 Persia. Caldwell and
Russell. the former British minister
p Sir Cecil Spring Rice. now British
ambassador in Washington. ans
Morgan ". Shuster. former 'reasur
3 ct general Of Persia, have writer
: flowing words about g.
Since Persia has adopted n cor
stitution. and mas definitely % or
face toward western civilization. th'
modern ideas for which an Amer
can school stands have become poa
ular all over the land Student
are sent 70 q from the most Dis
tant parts % the kingdom. some D
them. says Or Jof Ian. travelling b.
caravan 2o 30 and even 80 days ID
order 10 reach the school Their
are no railroads in Persia. e1cep
up in TIE extreme northwestern cor
ner Some OF the boys remain fo
years III school without retufnir,
home
I Princes Pot.ntstes ana peds.
' gceues.
? With sturdy American indspsn
! dence. Ut Jordar's high school IA
| Insisted on hlehcr fees than any q