The Days of a Man 1914 



primitive peoples and antiquated governments by 

 which it is surrounded. I was further gratified to see 

 that a department of Engineering had been lately 

 added to the already extensive equipment. Voca- 

 tional training is a pressing need of the youth of 

 the whole region. 



At the College I met Dr. Stephan Panaretoff, the 

 wise and scholarly professor of Bulgarian, who next 

 year became minister from Sofia to Washington. 

 There his patient influence had much to do with 

 preventing our country from declaring war against 

 Bulgaria and Turkey, an act which might have 

 greatly diminished our future influence in the Near 

 East. 



A rather rigid censorship was exercised by Turkey 

 Perils of over the mission schools. In a textbook on Chemistry 

 a government official interpreted the frequent men- 

 tion of H 2 O as a covert sneer at the Sultan H 2 O 

 clearly meaning Hamid II = o! And in one of the 

 readers he found the following dangerous exhortation: 



Stand ! the ground's your own, my braves ! 

 Will you give it up to slaves ? 



This he took to be a hint in favor of yielding Constan- 

 tinople to the Russians; in any event he detected 

 evidence of Slavic intrigue. 



By way of slight return for the hospitality of Dr. 

 and Mrs. Gates, I twice addressed the faculty and 

 advanced students, once on conditions in Europe 

 and once on Human Eugenics. I also spoke at the 

 Woman's neighboring but then wholly independent Woman's 

 College of Constantinople, the efficient president of 

 which, Dr. Mary M. Patrick, had in 1883 joined me 

 and my friends in Venice. 



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