Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-27
From Families of Position.

During the last semester there were
1856 students in the colege-seventy Ar
menians, forty-four Bulgarians, thirty
Greeks, thirtyfour Turks, two Hebrews.
one Russian, one Swiss, one Austrian,
one Albanian, one French and one Eng
fish young women The majority of the
students come from Constantinople or
from the villages along the Bosphorus,
and most of them from families OF
wealth and position. The number of Tur-
kish girls has increased very largely
within the last year. One of them is
daughter of the minister of justice, two
are daughters of former minister of
finance in the cabinet of Abdul Hamid,
one is the niece of the minister of edu-
cation, and the fathers OF several others
have held distinguished positions. Five
of the Turkish girls, all Mohammedans,
are sent to the American College to be
educated as teachers in the Turkish
schools, and have signed contracts with
the government to teach for five years
to pay for their education. The coming
year the number of Turkish students will
be doubled
DR.. Mary Mills Patrick. the president
of the college. to whose ability and en-
ergy and tact its success and influence
is largely due, has recently returned from
a years visit to the United States, where
she has been engaged in raising funds
for the purchase of new grounds and the
erection of new buildings which will en-
able the college to extend its influence
and usefulness. No one can realize so
fully as that noble woman the impor-
lance of the results she has accomplished
for the good of the women of Turkey and
the welfare of the Turkish race.
Gifts to the College.
Dr. Patrick raised $35O,OOO while she
was in the United States. Miss Helen
Gould gave $150,OOO for a new .uilding to
be called Gould Hall and $4,000 for gen.
eral purposes; John D. Rockefeller gave
$15O,OOO for a new building; Mrs. Henry
Woods of Boston, $4,000; Mrs. Russell
Sage gave $4,000 for land and $4,000 for
wall to be built around it; the late
John H. Converse gave $4,000: Miss
Grace Dodge gave $4,000 for the pur-
chase of the land. Mrs. D. Willis James.
James Talcott, d. Stuart Dodge and
other frinds made generous contributions
toward the purchase of the land, the
erection of new buildings and the gen.
eral fund.
Through the generosity of Miss Helen
Gould. the preparatory department has
already been moved from Scutari into
mansion on the banks OF the Bosphorus,
| at the gate of the new grounds. which
was formerly the residence of Musurus
Pasha. amba ssador to London. and the
| fall semester will open there with greater
promise than ever before
The plans for the new buildings have
been made by Shepley. Rutan Coolidge
of Boston. Mr.. Rutan Is the treasurer
Of the fund and has taken great interest
i'm the institution contributing a thousand
dollars a. year regularly to its support.
Robert r. Kendall, from his Office in
ton of the buildings. and an engineer. a
contractor and foremen of all the diff
ferent trades are now here superinteEd-
ing the work of construction: All the
machinery and tools and materials. SO far
as possible, are brought from the United
States.
Site for New Buildings.
DR.. Patrick bought fifty acres of land
upon a bluff 400 feet above the Bos-
phorus behind the village of Arnaout-
fkeny, SIX miles from Constantinople. 1t
Is the ancient seat OF pasha. and more
than century ago was purchased by
rich Armenian. who laid out the grounds
in luxurious style. 1t has been occupied
by his descendants for several genera
tions. During the last five or six years
1t has been leased by the consul general
Of Great Britain. The sultan tried to
purchase 1t as wedding present for one
| Of his daughters. ard when he found that
Dr. Patrick had an option upon the prop
erty instructed his minister at Washing
| ton to request President Roosevelt to per-
suade her to give 1t up, but she declined
| to do so, and fought him off until he was
oyerthrown and then she closed the trade.
A large part OF the property is in for
est, venerable old trees. as dark as
| Druid temple. and a winding road leads
| from a landing on the Bosphorus to the
mansion at the top Of the bluff. 400 feet
above the water. through a ravire. The
| mansion is in the midst Of an old-fash-
toned garden. surrounded by several i'm
mense cedars Of lebanon, said to be the
| finest in Turkey.
| back of the mansion is q terrace, fifteen
hundred feet long and about thousand
| feet wide where the buildings will be
laid out in quadrangle. They will all
he of the same school of architecture,
free italian renaissance. and the ma
terial will be stone quarried on the
ground.
Plan Of College Buildings.
The central building, to be called