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sistently with providing sufficient wholesome and
nourishing food, and the price for ten months' board
was fixed at 326.40. When the student numbers were
swarming they lodged willingly in attic rooms or sheds,
forgetting to complain of material discomforts, if but
their outreach for knowledge, civilization, and a man's
chance in life might be satisfied. X^e enthusiasm of
the President pervaded the student body and fixed
attention on things worth while.
OVERCOMING PREJUDICES
Looking backward from this distance, it Is not easy
to realize how many prejudices had to be overcome
by the " Hat wearers " in those early days. The
College was not national but international in character
from the start, and the races of Turkey did not find
it wholly easy to cooperate with one another. Not
to dwell now upon Moslem sentiment. Eastern Chris-
tians were to some extent jealous for their own churches
and fearful of Protestant influence. One of the most
trying experiences in the early history of the institution
took place when there was a serious College rebellion
in defiance of the rules regarding religious observances.
Nearly twenty students were dropped as a result.
The College was to maintain a position of loyal evangelical
Christianity, interpreted in a sympathetic and
catholic spirit. Doodoo, the faithful family servant
and friend, was talking one day with a student of
Gregorian Church connection, who said, " I have been
watching these Protestants since I came here. They
are not as bad as I thought they were. There's Mr.
Tracy, he's not a bad man."