War Helps Women.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 7, 1913:
Killing of Turks Opens Way to New Occupations.
    Among the passengers arriving yesterday from Naples on the Cunarder Ivernia were three American women professors in the College for Girls in Constantinople — Dr. Mary Mills Patrick of Boston, President of the college since its foundation in 1900; Dr. Louise B. Wallace. Dean of the Faculty, and Dr. Isabel Frances Dodd, Professor of Art and Archaeology, whose home in this country is at Montclair, N.J.
    The professors said that education was having a beneficial effect among the men and women in Turkey, and that the war with the Balkan States had killed off so many men that new fields were opened for women workers. Dr. Patrick said that Turkish women enjoyed much more freedom to-day than they did five years ago.
    "At that time," she said, "when I attempted to enter the Turkish university to view the interior I was denied admittance. In contrast to-day, women are not only allowed to see the structure, but are students.
    "We have made great progress with the Girls' College." Dr. Patrick said, "and need another dormitory. When we return in September I hope that the new building will be ready. Bulgarian, Turkish, and Armenian girls in Constantinople are starting to learn trades, and we shall have to start a technical school in addition to our academic institution.
    "It is not the direct object of the college to gain converts to Christianity, but you can put it this way," said the President of the Girls' College: "We teach a positive religion that will impress and gain all classes, and we avoid politics.
    "The Grand Vizier Mohammed Chefket Pasha was assassinated on Sunday morning, June 11, two hours before our commencement exercises opened. The address was delivered by Prof. Bushnell Hart of Harvard University."