SYRIAN TO SPEAK AT BROOKS HOUSE MEETING SUNDAY AT 4

The Graduate Schools Society of the Phillips Brooks House will hold its opening meeting in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House 'Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Reverend Abraham M. Rihbany, Pastor of the Church of Disciples in Boston will speak on "The Near East--Yesterday and Today", and C. D. Whidden '23 will give a small song program.

Mr. Rihbany has had a varied and interesting career. A Syrian by birth, of illiterate parents, he gained some education at the American missionary schools in his own country, and later came to America, where he landed in New York almost penniless. Gravitating to the Syrian colony he was able to secure a bookkeeper's job and later became in editor of the Syrian paper. He gained a knowledge of the English language while an itinerant lecturer, and later took up teaching. Some ten years ago he become a minister and has since been pastor of churches in Michigan and Ohio until coming to Boston.