The Days of a Man 



primitive peoples and antiquated governments b} 

 which it is surrounded. I was further gratified to sec 

 that a department of Engineering had been latel} 

 added to the already extensive equipment. Voca- 

 tional training is a pressing need of the youth oi 

 the whole region. 



At the College I met Dr. Stephan Panaretoff, the 

 wise and scholarly professor of Bulgarian, who nexi 

 year became minister from Sofia to Washington 

 There his patient influence had much to do wit! 

 preventing our country from declaring war againsi 

 Bulgaria and Turkey, an act which might have 

 greatly diminished our future influence in the Nea] 

 East. 



A rather rigid censorship was exercised by Turkey 



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



famulus a government official interpreted the frequent men 



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



clearly meaning Hamid II = o! And in one of th< 



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 detectec 

 evidence of Slavic intrigue. 



By way of slight return for the hospitality of Di 

 and Mrs. Gates, I twice addressed the faculty an< 

 advanced students, once on conditions in Europ 

 and once on Human Eugenics. I also spoke at th 

 Woman's neighboring but then wholly independent Woman' 

 College College of Constantinople, the efficient president o 

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

 and my friends in Venice. 

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