The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-07
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How American Colleges Are Accusing 11e ORIENT
D z ANK G. CARPENTER.
Rv A G.. CAKPENIE II

The College at Ae>iout ahu -
on the Nile-Robert College Near
ConstantinopIe. Which cost Adult
Hamid His Throne-The Beirut eoi-
1eo.. and How it Spreads Modern
Tbouobt-Turkish Students VINO
struck - Oriental Eootbaliers-t
Great Mission Printing House-Iie
First Tuberculosis Hospital Ever
Erected in the Orient. Built by
Americans.
(Copyr.ght. 1910. by Frank G. Car
penter.)
BEIRUT.
DO YOU realize how American edu-
cation is rev0lutioniZing the Orient :
It has beer one of the chief forces
which have moderniZed Egypt, it mas
much to do with the revolution IN
Persia, and it is the basis of the re-
organization now going on throughout
the whole Turkish empire. The flrsS
schools of Egypt were started by
United Presbyterian missionaries, and
their educational Institutions now COW
er the Nile valley. they have schools
III the Sudan, and a great American
college at AssiOut, several hundred
miles above Cairo. The college was.
started in a donkey stable abouteforty
years ago, and it has been turning out
graduates ever since. IT has now more
than l 900 students, who are housed in
ten large tWo-story buildings, and it
has recently completed three of the
finest halls to be found in the far
East. These are situated just outside
Assiout, at the junction of the Nile
with the great canal north OF that city,
and by the time this letter is publish
ed they will be finished and in active
operation The college has about 800
women, and it is associated with the
new Girls Academy, which was dedi-
Gated at Cairo during the stay Of Pres
ident Roosevelt.
The American College in Egypt.
[ visited the college at ASSiOut not
long ago. 1t is full to Overflowing, and
Notwithstanding the new structure Just
completed it needs more money II
more buildings. It has q great pres
tige throughout the Nile valley, and
Its efficiency with q little honey could
be easily doubled. The college is said
to give a better education than the
government institutions, and that at
the lowest possible cost. The tuition
is onrmal. Ror the poorest scholars
it is only about 81 a session in money,
and the ordinary rate is about SO a
ear The cost Of the education varies
with the taste of the students. These
are of all classes. from the sons Of the
poorest fellah to the highest pasha,
and richest merchant Of the Nile val
ley. There are three kinds Of accom-
modations, the cost Of which ranges
from $35 a year upward. The wealthy
Egyptian boy car have his own room,
or he can live four in a room. He
can have a good table, or at less cost
can be boarded SO that he mas meat
three or four times a eek On the
other hand, he can work his way
through college, buying his own food
and buying vegetables and fish at very
low cost. Many Of the boys bring their
bread from home. 1t is made of
ground corn or millet and baked in
cakes an inch thick. These cakes are
toasted until they are as hard as stone,
in which shape they will keep through
the term. Before going into a meal
the students dip the bread into a buck
ct Of water set out for the
and, when soft, carry it with them in
to the table.
The Assiout institution has its grad
yates in all the government depart
mentS OF Egypt. They are mons the
leading merchants of the country. and
every town has numbers of them.
Many are Capts and not a few are
MohammedanS. l am told that there
are more than $4,000 boys now being
educated in the United Presbyterian
schools and colleges.
How III Sultan Lost His Throne.
Shortly before the Sultan Abdul
Hamid was ousted by the Young Turk
party and carried to his prison in Sa-
loniki, where he now is. he referred
bitterly to the work that Robert Col
lege had done in unsettling his en-
pire. aid he: THAT institution has
cost me Bulgaria, and it is like to lose
me my hrone.'
He was right. Robert College was
founded in 1868 by a New York mer-
chant named Robert, who gave a large
"a II of his fortune to this institution