Charles Chapin Tracy, missionary, philanthropist, educator, first ...

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with Turkish, the language of the country, French,
the international language of the Levant, and the
student's vernacular, whether Armenian or Greek;
also at least an elementary education in the Sciences,
Mathematics, History, Philosophy, Economics and
Scripture. The diploma has been usually recognized
by American universities and professional schools and
justified by those students who have come to this
country for more advanced education.
COLLEGE PRESIDENT
Only those who have had some actual share in such
work can adequately realize the labor, the strain, the
agony involved, as well as the joy of entering into the
reward in founding and building up a pioneer college.
Once, in a whimsical mood, the President drew his
" Coat of Arms " in a friend's autograph album, in-
cluding on the traditional shield, pick, trowel, awl,
ax, gun, plane, pen, telescope, book, bell, diploma,
white-wash brush, shears, tailor's goose, medicine
bottle, plow and flail, all of which he said he had been
called upon to use.
First in administration was the winning of a faculty.
The College organization was unusual. The American
missionaries, to a considerable extent, shared in teach-
ing and in administration, but a majority of the staif
of instruction were natives of Turkey. Promising
young graduates were employed as teachers, and then
encouraged, and assisted with loans of money if necessary,
to take advanced courses in Europe or America
to prepare for permanent service. In this way such
men as Professor Manissadjian, Professor Sivaslian,