The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-05

bitterly to the work that Robert col lege had done in unsettling his em- pire. Said he: That institution has cost me Bulgaria. and it is like to lose me my throne.'
 He was right. Robert college was founded in 1863 by a New York mer- chant named Robert, who gave a large part of his fortune to this in- stitution. He was aided by the Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D. D., who was, think the real organizer. Since then it has been turning out graduates, and they have largely formed the leaven which has brought about the new Turkey and the Young Turk party of today. Some of its graduates built up Bull garia and organized the colleges and schools there. Others have been teach ing in schools throughout the Turkish empire; many have acted as officers of the government, and today the best of the new Turks are among them
 Robert college has now 500 or 500 students, including Mohammedans, Jews, Armenians and Russians, as well as representatives of the other nations about The teaching is non-sectarian, although they are required to attend daily prayers and go to services Sun day. I understand that this college is now highly approved by the new government, but that the latter would like to have it incorporated as Turk- ish institution, subject to the laws or Turkey and with Turkish directors. To this the Americans naturally object. They say that they are organized un- der the laws of New York. ~and they expect to stand by the rights which the foreign ownership gives them
 The Censorship of the Turks
 There is no doubt but that the Amer jeans are sensible inNpreferring the pro- lection of Uncle sam to that of the sultan. Conditions are bound to be un- settled in this part of the world TOT years to come. There will be revolu- tions and counter revolutions before .he Turks come down on solld SUD = stantial modern government, and no one can tell when the old conditions ol censorship may not be resumed. As 1t is now, the students can read what books they like. and therais little 'rou- ble as to the newspapers. They can go where they please without passports, and the new government Is dolng all it can to promote education,
 It was far different under the regime of Abdul Hamid. In his time every newspaper was carefully looked over and all sentences or words objection l. able to the governmental critics were cut out. This was so of papers coming in through the mail as well as of the native papers. Here in Beirut Sunday weekly is published devoted largely to the life and sayings of our Savior The censors objected to it, saying
 'rhe paper is a bad one, for in 1t they kill King of the Jews every week. This might suggest the assassination oi the sultan, and we cannot permit it. Dr. Bliss. the president of the college at Beirut, not long ago imported ~~tn old copy of Shakespeare. It was kept at the customs house. the censor object ing. Said the latter: "Shak espeare is a bad book for the Turks. It has in it the story of a man named Macbeth who killed king. It would be bad eX- ample for us."
 pr. Bliss succeeded in gntting his Shakespeare in by saying he had an- other copy of the same book, which, as 1t was already in the country, could not be taken out, and he would be glad to trade this for the new copy The censor