Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mission Committee of Phillips Brooks House announces through the chairman, W. E. Stearns '23, that Christmas cards have been sent out to all Harvard men engaged in missionary work in foreign fields--in China, Japan, South Africa, Turkey, and the Balkans...
This is the second of a series of articles on the American colleges in Turkey, by The Reverend John Ernest Merrill, President of the Central Turkey College, Aintab, Turkey. Dr. Merrill, who is one of the educational leaders of the Near East, recently spoke at the University, at the time of the conference on the Christian Ministry...
...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...
...college work is concerned, since 1915, when the Armenians were deported from Aintab. Several of the teachers were sent into exile, where some of them, died of typhus or were murdered. Three were sent to courtmartial on trumped-up charges, but were finally acquitted--a miracle in Turkey. Several are still living, and are in Turkey or abroad, waiting for the college to re-open. About one-third of the students died during the war. Over fifty of the alumni were murdered or died of disease due to war conditions. More than forty who are physicians were complied to serve...
...government lycee was opened to keep them from attending. But there is bound to be a great change, when the college re-opens. Even now the Moslems of the city have appealed to the Americans to take charge of their common schools, something unheard of and without parallel in Turkey...