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Originally published in 1934, this is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy.
The magnificence of the old Turkish Empire, the story of war and of revolution, the downfall of an old nation and the rise of a new one are all woven into this history of Istanbul Woman’s College.
Here is the story by one who spent forty-nine years with the college, Dr. Patrick went to Constantinople as a young teacher in 1875, four years after the founding of the school. She retired in 1924 as President Emerita. During this time the college grew from a school with forty pupils in a rented house to one with several hundred students, modern buildings, and a campus of seventy acres.
Those interested in the history of education in the Near East will find this a valuable book. Thos interested in the development of modern Turkey will find much material of real interest.
PREFACE
THE city known for many centuries as Constantinople was founded in 658 B.C. Originally called Byzantium, it was not until A.D. 328 that Constantine the Great conquered and renamed the city. The present name of Constantinople is Istanbul, not to be confounded with Stamboul, the oldest part of the ancient city. It lay, originally, between the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn, on what was called Seraglio Point because the palaces of the old sultans were there. The waterways around the city are intricate and far-extended. The Bosporus, the strait which connects the Marmara with the Black Sea, is eighteen miles long and varies greatly in width, being only one-half mile wide in its narrowest part and two and three-quarters miles wide at its northern end. The Republic of Turkey proves the possibility of a new creation in national thinking. President Mustapha Kemal brought modern Turkey into existence, as old methods and standards gradually ceased to control. The Turkey of today marks an era in the history of the Near East. It is one of the progressive republics of modern times.
As old methods and ideals gradually disappeared in the land, an educational institution was corning into existence--Istanbul Woman's College. The foundation of this college was laid in the latter part of the last century.
Caroline Borden was an enthusiastic leader among the trustees of this institution. From 1871, the date when it was founded, to 1921, the year of her death, the college was her special interest. Under her influence it grew and developed. During the whole of that period her efforts were untiring along both financial and educational lines. She was in a sense the real author of the following pages. Under the pressure of great difficulties she wrote a history of the college, carefully composed and dictated (for during the latter part of her life she was almost blind), but never published. To her account I am indebted for many exact records of dates and events in the history of Istanbul Woman's College.
I would acknowledge further generous assistance and suggestions from Dr. Louise B. Wallace, former Dean and Vice-President; Dr. Isabel F. Dodd, Professor of Art and Archaeology in the college for many years; and Elizabeth Clarahan, Professor of Education and Principal of the High School. I am greatly indebted as well to Henrietta H. Sisson for assistance in preparation of the manuscript.
M.M.P.
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
May 1, 1934
Contents
THE LAST ERA OF OLD TURKEY 3
SULTAN AZIZ 22
AN EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISE 28
LIBERTY FRATERNITY EQUALITY AND JUSTICE 39
ROMANCE OF EARLY DAYS 47
LITERARY ATMOSPHERE OF THE EARLY TURKISH 53
DARK AGES IN TURKISH HISTORY 75
A STUDY IN TRUSTEES 86
A COLLEGE CHARTER 93
THE YOUTH OF THE COLLEGE 100
WINNING FINANCIAL SUPPORT 109
THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM I 116
A GARDEN IN PARADISE 126
HEAVEN IN THE NEAR EAST 133
THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICAL 145
MORE STATELY MANSIONS 155
FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW 163
WAR AND COLLEGE HISTORY 169
WAR AND TURKISH WOMEN 176
CROSSING EUROPE TWICE IN WARTIME 189
LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD WAR 200
THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 214
SOME EARLY COLLEGE ALUMNAE 224
THE NEW WORLD IN TURKEY 244
A BIBLIOGRAPHY 2 5 I 251
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES REPRESENTED 258
GENERAL INDEX 269
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