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American colleges in the Near East are of two classes, the coast colleges at Constantinople, Smyrna and Beirut, which are relatively prominent, and the interior colleges, which are seen by fewer travellers and are less well known...
...coast colleges have the advantage of rapid communication with the world and enjoy other facilities of western civilization, but they suffer from unfavorable influences which characterize life along the coast in the Levant. The interior colleges are almost free from these influences, are in contact with normal native life, and have an unequalled opportunity for bringing influence to bear upon it directly...
Robert College at Constantinople and Syrian Protestant College at Beirut were the first of these American colleges historically. The first of the interior colleges, Central Turkey College, established at Aintab in 1876, came next, and it was followed by other colleges at Harpout, Marsovan, Tarsus, Konia, Sivas...
...Britain. One had his Licen, en Droit from the University of Paris, another his M.A. from Yale, another his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia, another had graduated in Mining Engineering and another had taken his C.E. both at Sheffield Scientific School. Such men could not accept appointment in an interior college without great pecuniary loss. They have been marked by the sacrifice and devotion which have characterized instructors in pioneer institutions in America...
Definite plans for the remodelling of Grays Hall were announced yesterday by the Regent's Office. Instead of single suites on the north and south sides of the building, the interior will be changed so that one suite will run the width of the building, as in Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy. The living rooms will be situated entirely on the south side of the building and the bedrooms on the north; each suite will have a private bath. The alterations will commence immediately after College is over in June and will be completed by fall...