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Beirut Syria, Oct. 25, '03
Dear Nebraskan:
Perhaps a few words about tho
re-
cent "unpleasantness" In Beirut would
not be out of tho way Just now, and
tho Impressions received from my Eu
ropean jaunt can be given in my next
epistle.
Tho beginning of the trouble, as you
doubtless know, was tho attempt on the
life of Vice Consul Magellsen. As he
was passing down one of the streets
one evening, a shot was fired, tho bul
let passing through his carriage, but
fortunately missing hlmk
Whether It was premeditated or acci
dental is not certainly known. It may
have been done from personal hatred;
or merely with the hope that the act
Would bring the interference of the
powers and with that interference bet
tor government; or it may have been
an accident, as the Turks claim.
Whatever was the motive, the result
was the stirring up of the old religious
hatred between the Greek-Christians
and the Moslems. A riot ensued and
about seven people were killed.
There is no doubt that much blood
shed was averted by the prompt arriv
al of the war vessels. It is said that
a mob was gathering in a certain part
of tho city, but when the search lights
were turned upon it, It melted away,
through fear of the warship's guiiB. All
Is quiet at present, but ono never
knows when the smouldering embers
may blazo forth anew.
Tho situation, I am told by old resi
dents, is jUst this:
Tho root of the trouble is both reli
gious hatred and desire for better gov
ernment. In Beirut the Greek Chris
tians are in the majority. Riots are
incited with tho hope that tho powers
will Intervene as they did forty years
ago, and give a government to Beirut
similar to that given to the Lebanon
district. This means freedom from ex
cessive taxation and miliary oppression
and a Greek-Christian governor; the
latter is appointed by tho sultan, ap
proved, however, I believe, by tho -powers;
and a fixed tribute only is paid
to the Turkish government.
There seems to be no special ani
mosity against Europeans or Ameri
cans, but they are harmed only when
they get in tho way, or as a result of
fanatical mob violence.
Americans should bear In mind that
newspaper reports are often grossly
exaggerated, and consequently mislead
ing; though at other times tney only
toll half tho truth.
I have mot Admiral Cotton, Cap
tains Knox and Walker, and young
Captain Thorp, who has been ordered
to AbbyBslnia.' Tho ofiicers and men
come up to tho campus frequently to
visit, and several games of baseball
have been played by them on our ath
letic field.
College opened last week with GOO
students.
SAMUEL ANDERSON, '03.
Syrian Protestant College Beirut, Sy
ria. Tho Palladlan society is in' receipt
of a letter from R. W. Thatcher, '98
and '01, who 1b head of tho chemical
department of the agricultural experi
ment station at Pullman, WaBh. Mr.
Thatcher says:
"I am very pleasantly located here
and havo no desire to return to the
east, except that I would like to visit
some of my old friends. Tho Pacific
northwest Is tho garden spot of the
United States, and I would need some
very strong inducement to make me
think of returning to Nebraska or arty
other eastern locality whoso conditions
I am familiar with, as far as oppor
tunities for work or pleasure aro cpn
cerned. I spent a month last summer
climbing snow clad mountains, troll
ing for salmon In the ocean and get
ting near to Nature's heart In the pine
woods, and after that I have no long
ing for tho prairies of Nebraska.
We ' have quite a Nebraska colony
here at the Washington Agricultural
College. Fulmer, '85, Is head of the
chemical department and state chemist,
Beatty", '96 and '98, Is acting professor
'of botany, and I am head of the chem
ical department of the experiment ata-
tlon. We aro already preparing to
fight out the Thanksgiving day game
with the men from Illinois on our fac
ulty here. Stand up for Nebraska!
Yon can hardly Imagine with what
eagerness we old timers look for news
from tho University, or how quickly wo
turn to the football page of the Spd
kano paper on Sunday noon to hear
how It has gono on tho old Unl. grid
Iron the day before. Last Saturday I
read tho score of the first half of the
Iowa game In the Spokane afternoon
paper at 4 o clock in tho afternoon, '
so quickly does news travel In these,
days.
Our school here is a flourishing 10-year-old
Infant with a corps of forty
instructors and" seven hundred students.
W havo everything we could reason
ably ask for In tho way of facilities
for investigation and Instruction and
future prospects are very rosy. We
have Just moved our chemical depart--mcntK
Into a now $30,000 building,
which Is as commodious and more con
venient than the old chemical labora
tory where I spent so much of my
ITnl. time. I have a very pleasant
suite of four rooms for my own prlvato
quarters and need no, say that I feel
very comfortablly fixed."
How Fast the World Moves.
At the close of a very flattering no
tice of Dr. Charles Kuhlmann's artlclo
on "The Breton Club During the Revo
lution," in a latd number of the Uni
versity studies, tho Revuo Hlstoriquo
of Paris has tho following to say:
"In reading, with tho Interest which
it merits, this monograph wnlch has
come to us from the land of tho Platte
and the Missouri, we can not help re
ilecting on the prodigious rapidity of
the development of modern civiliza
tion.
"How nptonlshcd would these mem
bers of the Breton club of 1789 havo
been if they could havo known that
100 years later, In a corner of tho vast
Dlalns of North America known to
Uiem only under a barbarian name and
nhablted only by redskins and tho
nance trapper, there would exist a uni
versity, publishing a scientific work
concerned with them and their
history."
Cards fbm Per Axel Rydberg, '91
ind '95, Indicate that on the 11th of
this month he was married to his cou
sin Miss Amanda Rydberg in Mount
Vernon, N. Y. Dr. Rydberg Is well
known to tho older botanists of the
Univorsity as a most enthusiastic work
worker in the department and a deep
student of plantB, who, after graduat
ng here went to New York, whero he
has been for a number of years In
charge of the Herbarium of the New
York botanical garden.
Ernst A. Bessoy, '96 and '98, Is a
student In tho University of Halle, In
Icrmany. He Is studying botany, zo
ology and philosophy, tho first being
'lis major subject. He hopes to com
pete his work for tho degree of doctor
-( philosophy sometime In the spring.
fter receiving his doctor's degree he
ntonds to spend a semester In the
University of Munich, whero he will
levote all his time to botanical work
indor Profesbor Gp'ebel, tho well
known plant morphologlst.
A. J. McClatchlo, '90, ,vr many years
a professor In the University of Ari
zona, J.b engaged In writing a work on
tho natural history of plants. Por
tions of the manuscript were submitted
to Dr. Bessey some time ago, and ho
has given bis hearty approval to thQ
now book as far as ho has seon It.
Professor McClatchlo was ono of the
"botany boys" who did excellent work
In tho oarly days of tho botanical de
partment. Mr. Sam Anderson, '03, of Beirut, Sy
ria, reports that he Is well pleased with
his position as treasurer of tho Protest
ant college at that place.
E. A. Moore, a former student of the
University, Is pastor of the Methodist
church at Emerson, la."
MJJbs Elizabeth Meier, '03, la principal
of the Neeley hih school,
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October 17 Football at tho Universities of Chicago and Michigan.
October 24 Tho Univorsity of WIbcoubIu on tho Gridiron.
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