OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATIONAL WORK

"Educational Opportunities for American College Men in the Near East" will be the subject of illustrated talks by Albert W. Staub, executive secretary of Robert College, Constantinople, and John E. Merrill, Ph.D., president of Central Turkey College, Aintab, at a meeting which will be held at Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 7.30 tonight. The meeting is open to all men in the University, and will be of special interest to those men who would like to combine teaching or social service with experience in a foreign country.

Mr. Merrill has spent twenty years in Turkey. During the war and for a year and a half after the signing of the Armistice. Mr. Merrill was in charge of the Central Turkey College and the Near East Relief work at Aintab in the heart of Turkey. This country was a center of fighting between the French and the Turkish Nationalists who sprang up after the recent war. The city of Aintab was besieged for over a year by the French and only recently captured by them. Mr. Merrill escaped during the siege about six months ago, but while he remained in Aintab he acted as--a go-between for the French and the Turks. The Aintab Turkey College of which Mr. Merrill is president was established in 1876 and is one of the best in Turkey, especially for medical work.

Mr. Staub worked with the Red Cross from the beginning of the war until 1917, having charge of shipping supplies abroad. From 1917 to 1919 he was Assistant Manager of the Atlantic Division of the Red Cross.

In August, 1919, he went to Turkey to study the work of the Syrian Protestant College and Robert College, of which he is now executive secretary.

Throughout today Mr. Staub will hold 15-minute individual conferences with any men interested, in order to acquaint the men personally with the work, and to give them an accurate idea of its advantages. He will be in Phillips Brooks House from 9 until 5.