The Sidon Seminary, as stated on a previous page, was begun in 1862, and has had four European and six native teachers.  Of the latter, one was trained in Mrs. Bird’s family, one in Shemlan Seminary, three in the Sidon school, and one by Mrs. Watson.

Ten of its graduates have been employed as teachers, and eight are still so engaged.

I annex a list of Girls’ Schools now or formerly connected with the Syria Mission.

No. of  No. of   When begun
Location.                Pupils.  Teach’rs

Beirut, Day School, 50 2 1834
  " Seminary, 50 10 1848
Sidon, Seminary, 20 3 1862
  " Day School, 6 1 1862
Abeih, " 60 1 1853
Deir el Komr, " 50 2 1855 To be resumed soon. 
Ghorify, " 40 1 1863 All Druzes. 
El Hadeth, " 40 1 1870
Shwifat, " 70 2 1871
Dibbiyeh, " 20 1 1868
B’Hamdun, " 30 1 1853 Discontinued. 
Meshgara, " 30 1 1869 Boys and girls,
Ain Anub, " 20 1 1870 and 60 boys. 
Kefr Shima, " 40 1 1856 Boys and girls. 
Rasheiya el
  Fokhar, " 30 1 1869
Jedaideh, " 40 1 1870
El Khiyam, " 25 1 1868
Ibl, " 30 1 1868
Deir Mimas, " 15 1 1865
Kana, " 35 1 1869
Hums, " 40 1 1865
Safita, " 30 1 1869
Hamath, " 30 1 1872
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Totals 23 801 36

This gives a total of twenty-three girls’ schools besides the twenty-four boys’ schools under the care of the Mission, and three schools where there are both boys and girls.  I have kept the name of B’hamdun in the list, for its historical associations, but the thirty pupils credited to it, will be more than made good in the girl’s school about to be resumed in Tripoli under the care of Miss Kip.

The total number of girls is about 800, and the number of teachers 36.  The total cost of these twenty-three schools, including the two Seminaries in Beirut and Sidon, is about eight thousand dollars per annum, including rents, salaries of five American and English ladies, and thirty-one native teachers.

The average cost of the common schools in the Sidon field is sixty dollars per annum, and in the Lebanon field it varies from this sum to about twice that amount, owing to the fact that the Deir el Komr and other schools are virtually High Schools.

The teacher in the Sidon field, and in Abeih, and Safita, are graduates of the Sidon Seminary.