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...tongue was represented from regions more remote from Jerusalem than Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Egypt, with the exception of "sojourners from Rome"; whereas the Columbia courses are practically planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they do the following spoken languages: Armenian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish and Turkish. There are also suggestions of courses in Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Serbo-Croatian. These are offered not only for the practical value of their use in oral intercommunication, but also for their helpfulness...
...students must be great readers, Most of the people of the country are illiterate or read very little. The college has a library of about 7500 volumes, English, Armenian and Turkish. Students are encouraged to read and library work is a required part of the language courses, with the result that the number of books drawn per student during the year has averaged over fifty. Back here in the interior of Turkey, they have had sixty or seventy periodicals regularly on the shelves in the college reading room...
...edge of the city, and put up there with Dr. Shepard is the son of the famous "Shepard of Aintab," who died here of typhus in 1915 to take his father's place. he has been in the city all through the fighting. He has counselled and helped besieged Armenians, has tried to make peace between Armenians and Turks, and has received French and Armenian, and now Turkish wounded to the American, hospital, of which he is the head. He is just back from a trip to Beirut, where he was decorated by the French general. This shows the esteem...
...have visited the city, and seen the destruction there. About 25,000 Armenians were deported from Aintab in 1915, and before the return of the survivors about three thousand houses belonging to Armenians had been destroyed. This devastation has been made good in part and the Armenian quarter rehabilitated during the last two years. But the Turks quarter has been shot to pieces by the French, and is a wreck. Last May, the French were determined to avoid shelling the Turkish quarter so destructively, but they were compelled to it finally by the obstinate resistance of the Nationalists, who surrendered...
Circumstances, radical and political, have led to a distinctive method of study, recitation and lecture. The population of Aintab are Turkish-speaking. The text-books to be used are American. Students are obliged to learn English and French as well as Turkish and Armenian or Arabic, but, with the exception of language lessons, practically all the class room work is conducted in the vernacular. The texts are standard books in American Colleges, like Kimball in Physics, Alex, Smith in Chemistry, Weber in History of Philosophy, Gide in Political Economy, but recitation, discussion and lectures are in the vernacular...