CONDITIONS IN THE BALKANS

At the regular weekly meeting of the Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock, Dr. George Washburn will speak on "The Balkan Question." The lecture will be open to all members of the University.

For 33 years Dr. Washburn was president of Robert College, Constantinople, which is the leading educational institution of the Turkish Empire, and has an enrolment of nearly 500 students. Many leaders in the "New Turkey" movement are graduates of this institution, and the education here afforded to the youth of the Balkan Peninsula was the cause of the uprising which resulted in Bulgarian independence. Dr. Washburn has been able to acquire a wide knowledge of the life and problems of the Balkan states, and is at the present time the foremost authority in this country on conditions in the Turkish Empire. In recognition of his work he has been awarded the degree of LL.D. by the Universities of Michigan and Princeton, and the order of St. Alexander by Prince Alexander of Bulgaria.