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A Bosporus Adventure A History of Istanbul Woman's College, 1871-1924
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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
Health Instruction Yearbook 1951
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Health Instruction Yearbook 1951
Oliver E. Byrd, Ed.D., M.D.
Did You Know That
- Air pollution hits the aged and infirm first?
- The driver who takes changes is more dangerous than the drunken driver?
- Sixty-four percent of dreams tend to be unpleasant?
- High blood pressure need not disable you?
- Cataracts are responsible for most cases of blindness?
- "Truth serum" cannot make you tell the truth?
- Behavior problems of children are not always due to parental mismanagement?
- Bee stings can kill you, if you are allergic to them?
- Crowded housing has an overwhelming relationship to respiratory tuberculosis?
- Americans spend more on tobacco and alcohol than health care?
- The death rate in childhood had decreased five- to tenfold from 1900 to 1950?
- In an atomic attack, panic may cause more loss of life than the attack itself?
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Byrd
Author Health Instruction Yearbook 1951
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 080470466X, 9780804704663
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Addresses Upon the American Road 1948-1950
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Herbert Hoover's counsel to the nation in the past two years-his speeches, official letters, press statements, and published articles are now available in this single volume. The increasing import of his convictions upon domestic and foreign policies makes this book of timely and unusual significance. In his forty eight addresses upon the American road, Mr. Hoover covers a wide range of subjects:
ON REFORM OF GOVERNMENT
"The reform of government is . . . a bipartisan matter, It concerns all citizens of whatever party. In the conduct of their business affairs Americans are very strict with themselves to get the best they can for whatever they spend. Government is, of course, different from business; yet this commonsense attitude of demanding efficient management and efficient use of money is entirely applicable to its affairs. Indeed, if our freedom is to be preserved, this attitude is indispensable."
ON WORLD PEACE
How the United Nations may act for world peace is suggested in Mr. Hoover's dedicatory address at the William Allen White Memorial. The tragedy of the UN is that "it turned into an instrument to protect Red imperialism." He proposed that if the UN is to function in its task of promoting lasting peace "it must be reorganized re-organized without the Communists in it."
ON REARMAMENT
"The time has come," Mr. Hoover said on October I 9, 1950, "when the American people should speak out in much stronger tones than the diplomatic phrases of conference halls." He holds that the United States cannot long endure the tremendous economic drain of support to non-Communist Europe. "We need strong medicine in the shape of large and definite armies.
'What we want is a real peace. But if we cannot have that, at least we want an uneasy peace within the economic burdens which the United States can bear."
ON DISARMAMENT
Disarmament has been "the aspiration of all good men for generations," Mr. Hoover said on November I, 1 950, in response to an award for outstanding citizenship, but "disarmament flows from peace, not peace from disarmament.
". . . Nothing will stifle the Kremlin's aggressive ambitions except such organized military, economic, and moral force of all non-Communist nations as will confront the Politburo with the grim visage of defeat if they attack.
"However, the real solution of the world's greatest trouble would be for the Soviet Union to co-operate in promoting the welfare of mankind. They could join in a constructive peace with Germany, Austria, and Japan. Only by such a peace could steps be taken toward disarmament."
In his forty-eight ADDRESSES UPON THE AMERICAN ROAD, 1948-1950, Mr. Hoover speaks on an amazing range of subjects: the reorganization of government, world peace, rearmament and disarmament, "the miracle of America," federal aid to education, old-age assistance, responsible citizenship, how to save tax money, benevolent and youth organizations, advertising--and on football.
THE AUTHOR
Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States, has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of world-wide economic and political problems. His many years of professional engineering service before the Presidency, his distinguished record as United States food administrator after World War I, and his extensive food surveys following World War I1 form a solid foundation of experience and service. A unique contribution has been his chairmanship of the First and Second Commissions on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government. He has received honorary degrees from eighty-one institutions in the United States and abroad. He is the founder of the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace at his alma mater, Stanford University.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original edition:
Title Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950
Authors Herbert Hoover
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804761841, 9780804761840
