May 3. On this date in 1914, Shoghi Effendi, a student in Beirut, wrote "Going back to our college activities our Bahá'í meetings, which I have spoken to you about, are reorganized and only today we are sending letters, enclosing glad tidings of the Holy Land, to the Bahá'í Assemblies in various countries." He studied at Syrian Protestant College, as did his cousins Munib Shahid, Soheil Afnan, and others, who he declared Covenant-breakers.

Syrian Protestant College students and teachers in 1914

May 3. On this date in 1914, Shoghi Effendi, a student in Beirut, wrote "Going back to our college activities our Bahá'í meetings, which I have spoken to you about, are reorganized and only today we are sending letters, enclosing glad tidings of the Holy Land, to the Bahá'í Assemblies in various countries." He studied at Syrian Protestant College, as did his cousins Munib Shahid, Soheil Afnan, and others, who he declared Covenant-breakers.  The photo above was taken in 1914 and is of students and instructors at Syrian Protestant College.