Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regular weekly meeting of the Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock, Dr. George Washburn will speak on "The Balkan Question." The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...years Dr. Washburn was president of Robert College, Constantinople, which is the leading educational institution of the Turkish Empire, and has an enrolment of nearly 500 students. Many leaders in the "New Turkey" movement are graduates of this institution, and the education here afforded to the youth of the Balkan Peninsula was the cause of the uprising which resulted in Bulgarian independence. Dr. Washburn has been able to acquire a wide knowledge of the life and problems of the Balkan states, and is at the present time the foremost authority in this country on conditions in the Turkish Empire...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Mr. Frederick Moore, author of "The Balkan Trail," will repeat part of the lecture which he gave in the Union last sing on "Brigand Life in the Balkans." The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views...
...correspondent Mr. Moore visited the Balkan frontier and saw much of the fighting, which consists of a continual guerrilla warfare among the brigands, who infest the region, and ceaseless war between the Moslems and Trucks. The pictures show the country and many scenes of actual fighting...
...Balkan Trail," by F. Moore...