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.

 

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.

From Chapter 1 of Amatu’l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum's book The Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, titled "Childhood and Youth"...

Shoghi Effendi also played a dominant role in the activities of the Bahá'í students studying in Beirut, through which passed so many of the pilgrims from Persia and the Far East on their way to and from Haifa. He writes, in a letter from Beirut dated May 3, 1914: "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."