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150 Fun Facts

In 2014, 20,000 people attended the AUB Outdoors Festival in a single weekend.

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19 members of the AUB community were active in the formation of the United Nations. Lebanon had more representation than any other nation. 

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In 1921 AUB became one of first universities to become co-ed. 

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Howard Bliss, the second president of AUB, was a representative at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

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Appointed in 1876, Joshua B. Crane was the first AUB Staffite. Staffites were recent college graduates appointed as assistants or tutors on a three year contract.  Crane was a recent graduate of Brown University. 

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In 1914 former Egyptian and Sudanese students of Rev. Daniel Bliss donate the life-size marble statue of him that now stands outside College Hall.

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In 1864 telegraph lines are completed between Beirut, Constantinople, Damascus, Bagdad, Jerusalem, and Egypt. This put Syria into telegraphic communication with London and Paris.

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AUB is incorporated as the Syrian Protestant College by the State of New York in 1863.

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The President's Club is founded in 1979 to foster a direct relationship between the AUB president and those persons with a special interest in supporting the university.

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Despite civil war hardships, AUB receives the Distinguished Education Award in 1983 from the US Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

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