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42_54 Constantinople Babylon relative to the residents building their houses a certain distance back of the street! Our conductor - a research scholar and curator - showed his humor at certain points. A figure in one of the old sculptures, a long stone panel, bore a head dress something like a turban. Said our curator: It is lucky the Angora government did not see this hat; they would have mistaken it for a turban and ordered it struck off!! It is impossible for we, who are no archaeologist to give any idea of the riches of this Museum. It is - all of it - well displayed, admirably arranged! We were next taken to Robert College which has a most magnificent situation over- |
42_55 Jan. 26, 1926 looking the Bosphorus. Just below the school are the old fortress towers built by [blank] in [blank]; they are the Towers of Europe - two of them connected by a wall, and meant for the subjugation of Constantinople. On the opposite shore is a similar set of towers. The Towers of Asia. Just above the Towers of Asia is a valley - narrow and low, - running back into the country, the stream in its bottom being The Sweet Waters of Asia. At Robert College we were entertained at luncheon by President and Mrs. Gates. The college has half-a-dozen fine stone buildings and other smaller ones. Its engineering laboratories were shown to us with great pride. The |
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