TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenwood,Keith M.
TI  - Robert college : the American founders
SN  - 9789755181387
U1  - 377.6 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - İstanbul
PB  - Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi
KW  - Eğitim
N2  - "In October 1857, two young brothers ?were ushered into the drawing room of Christopher Rhinelander Robert, noted New York merchant and philanthropist? They requested Robert to help finance the opening of an institution of higher learning in Istanbul." So begins the story of the founding of Robert College, the first American institution of higher education abroad, and the predecessor of Boğaziçi University, nearly one and a half centuries ago. It is first and foremost the story of the character and aspirations of Cyrus Hamlin, the driving force behind the establishment of the school, and of
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