. Leavening the Levant . MARY A. C. ELY CHARLOTTE E. ELYEASTERN TURKEY MISSION, VAN AND BITUS GEORGE P. KNAPP COLLEGES AND SKETCHES 233 and the teaching forces are loyal and enthusiastic. We havehad two new recruits from Marsovan, one for the boys school,and one for the girls. Nothing but good comes to us fromMarsovan. In 1911 there was special religious interest,both among the people and in the schools, with audiences ofmore than 1,000. As early as 1905 the annual meeting of the Eastern TurkeyMission expressed its approval of establishing a college atVan, and at every succeeding annual meetin
. Leavening the Levant . MARY A. C. ELY CHARLOTTE E. ELYEASTERN TURKEY MISSION, VAN AND BITUS GEORGE P. KNAPP COLLEGES AND SKETCHES 233 and the teaching forces are loyal and enthusiastic. We havehad two new recruits from Marsovan, one for the boys school,and one for the girls. Nothing but good comes to us fromMarsovan. In 1911 there was special religious interest,both among the people and in the schools, with audiences ofmore than 1,000. As early as 1905 the annual meeting of the Eastern TurkeyMission expressed its approval of establishing a college atVan, and at every succeeding annual meeting this approvalwas reaffirmed. The principal reasons for this step, as pre-sented to the American Board in 1913, were as follows: Forseveral years there had been a rapid development of the edu-cational work, with an increase of pupils in the various mis-sionary schools to the number of 1,200; the nearest existingcollege (Harpout) was at a distance of two weeks journeyover a hard and dangerous road; the natural constituen
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