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Among other factors contributing to the expansion and establishment of the Administrative Order may be mentioned the organized activities of the Baha'i Youth, already much advanced in Persia and in the United States of America, and launched more recently in India, in the British Isles, in Germany, in Iraq, in Egypt, in Australia, in Bulgaria, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Hungary and in Havana. These activities comprise annual world- wide Baha'i Youth Symposiums, Youth sessions at Baha'i summer schools, youth bulletins and magazines, an international correspondence Bureau, facilities for the registration of young people desiring to join the Faith, the publication of outlines and references for the study of the teachings and the organization of a Baha'i study group as an official university activity in a leading American university. They include, moreover, "study days" held in Baha'i homes and centers, classes for the study of Esperanto and other languages, the organization of Baha'i libraries, the opening of reading rooms, the production of Baha'i plays and pageants, the holding of oratorical contests, the education of orphans, the organization of classes in public speaking, the holding of gatherings to perpetuate the memory of historical Baha'i personalities, inter- group regional conferences and youth sessions held in connection with Baha'i annual conventions.
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