. Leavening the Levant . n stoves andstove-pipe. Constantinople was a rat-infested city, with nosatisfactory devices for exterminating the pest. Dr. Hamlintaught the students to make rat-traps. Constantinople atenothing but leavened bread, which was sour and distastefulto many of the people, especially to the foreign Hamlin imported a grist-mill with a steam engine to runit, and set up a bakery for providing sweet yeast bread. Allthese devices were successful, but these and other industrieswere not sanctioned by the American Board, and Dr. Hamlinwas left to bear the entire respon
. Leavening the Levant . n stoves andstove-pipe. Constantinople was a rat-infested city, with nosatisfactory devices for exterminating the pest. Dr. Hamlintaught the students to make rat-traps. Constantinople atenothing but leavened bread, which was sour and distastefulto many of the people, especially to the foreign Hamlin imported a grist-mill with a steam engine to runit, and set up a bakery for providing sweet yeast bread. Allthese devices were successful, but these and other industrieswere not sanctioned by the American Board, and Dr. Hamlinwas left to bear the entire responsibility and expense. Nomissionary in Turkey but Dr. Hamlin, and no man save onewith an iron will and a genius for mechanics and invention,would have dared undertake such works. These industrieswere the beginning of a self-help department, which is nowa well recognized adjunct of many missionary high schoolsand colleges. All honor to the pioneer in the self-help de-partment! All honor to the man, who, during two years of. BEBEK SEMINARY, THE FORERUNNER OF ROBERT COLLEGE The white building at the right was Dr. Greenes home 1871 to 1884.
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