[9] In 1913, the college team defeated the champions of the British Mediterranean Fleet.
[10] The above figures are for the current year, 1913. With this exception, however, the chapter is not in any sense a composite, but describes the happenings of one actual field-day held during the author’s residence in Beirut.
[11] Since this record was made, a new athletic field with a cinder track has been laid out adjoining the campus.
[12] This is the correct rendering of Judges 3:3.
[13] C. R. Conder, the eminent Palestinian archæologist, points out that Arabic grammar necessitates our translating Jebel esh-Sheikh “Mountain of the Sheikh,” and derives the appellation from the fact that in the tenth century the founder of the Druse religion took up his residence in Hermon (Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible, s. v. “Hermon”). But no one who has seen the white head of the tall, strong mountain can help thinking of Hermon as itself the proud, reverend sheikh of the glorious tribe of Syrian peaks.
[14] Cf. Luke 3:1.
[15] Sura 5:34.
[16] See the author’s The Real Palestine of To-day, chapter XV, “The War-path of the Empires,” and XVIII, “The Lake of God’s Delight.”
[17] Numbers 21:33.
[18] Isaiah 2:13, etc.