Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-11
American Schools Help.


American missionary schools in different
parts of Turkey. although they are, Of
course. reluctant to let their teachers 60
We are placing promising young men and
women in all the American institutions,
We have five government students in
the. American College for Girls at Scutari;
we shall have as many or more young
men in Robert College at the opening OF
the fall term. We have already sent
$50 students to Vienna, Paris. Berlin,
Geneva and other European educational
centers at government expense. These
young men are selected from the most
promising students in our high schools.
We will send more next year. We ex-
pect to send twenty-five, perhaps fifty,
young men to America to be educated.
I'VE like the American system of edu-
cation very much, but in the organization
of our public schools we are adopting
the German and Swiss systems rather
than the American because they are more
easily applied.
There is a great educational rennais-
sance in Turkey continued Mahmoud
Bey. THE deputies of our parliament
are here every day demanding more
schools for their constituents. One OF
them. who was in this morning, said that
the people in his province were actually
Mesopotamja has just sent me a copy of a
speech he has recently made in approval
of our efforts and promising his earnest
support for us In the future
Division of Appropriations.
The appropriations for the current year
have been divided as follows-a plaster
being . cents in American money:
Subventions to primary schools %
OOO. 600 piasters; subventions. to secondary
schools. 100000 piasters: government
primary schools, 100000 piasters: gov
eminent lyceums, 100000 piasters: gov
tiers; subventions to provincial normal
schools. 100000 piasters: subventions to
provincial lyceurs. 100000 piasters;
university OF Constantinople. 2,92s,s1G
piasters; agricultural schools 1866, 600
piasterS; medical schools, S,5O2,2oO pias-
tiers; schools Of music and art, 1.G3O, 600
piasters; technical schools, 7,S39.OOO pi-
asters: schools of commerce, $50 40
piasters; students in private schools, o.
10000 piasters.
The several military academies are
supported from the appropriations for the
war department. The provincial schools
referred to In the above table are situated
in forty or fifty of the largest centers of
population In the different provinces of the
Ottoman empire. The lyceums are what
we call high or preparatory schools.
Schools of commerce are what we call
commercial colleges, where modern Ian
guages. bookkeeping, typewriting, stenog-
raphy and other accomplishments required
In u business career are taught.
Educated Men Not Wanted.
The University Of ConstantinopIe has
never been regarded as of much impor-
lance. although its law school has turned
out some of the best men in Turkey. 1t
was founded about fifty years ago by
Sultan Abdul Aziz, who housed 1t in one
of the most commodious and attractive
buildings in the city. But Abdul Hamid
the late sultan. had no use for educated
men and during his reign it simply man.
aged to live. It's only support was from
the tuition fees Under the new regime
the university is showing signs of pros
perity. The buildings haye been over
hauled and put in perfect repair; the
Der of students was several times larger
last year than 1t has been for a genera
ton. The law school has been the most
important, but the medical school promises
to be equally so. There are also schools
of engineering, pharmacy and art.
The best education to be had in Turkey
outside of the American colleges has been
given by the military school at Constan-
recent revolution were. educated there. 1t
was a pet of Abdul Hamid and at times
he treated it with great generosity.
Disliked by Autocrats.
The lyceum of Galata Serai in the
foreign quarter of Constantinople, has
been the only other native school where
Turkish boys could get respectable edu-
cation, and some of the best men in the
Turkish service have been educated there
under a French principal and German
and Swiss professors. The school had a
bad reputation. however. among the
autocrats. 1t was suspected of being
nursery for breeding enemies of the
despotism, and Abdul Hamid compelled
several of his ministers to take away their
boys that had been sent there. because OF
the liberal tendencies Of the faculty
Five or six years ago the school was
burned down II was case OF arson
and everybody believed that the sultan