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History:
January
23,
1862, W.
M.
Thomson proposed
to
a
meeting
of
the American
Board
of
Commissioners
for
Foreign
Missions that
a
college
of
higher
learning,
that
would
include
medical
training,
should
be
established
in
Beirut
with
Dr. Daniel
Bliss
as
its
president.On
April
24,
1863,
while
Bliss
was
raising
money
for
the
new
college
in
the
United
States
and
England,
the
State
of
New
York
granted
a charter for
the
Syrian
Protestant
College.
The
college,
which
was
renamed
the
American
University
of
Beirut
in
1920,
opened
with
a
class
of
16
students
on
December
3,
1866.
Bliss
served
as
its
first
president,
from
1866
until
1902. In
the
beginning
Arabic
was
used
as
the
language
of
instruction
because
it
was
the
common
language
of
the
ethnic
groups
of
the
region,
and
prospective
students
needed
to
be
fluent
in ottoman
Turkish
or
in
French
as
well
as
in
English.
In
1887
the
language
of
instruction
became
English.
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