Robert College
a Christian institution of learning in Hissur, a suburb of Constantinople, founded in 1863 by Christopher R. Robert, a wealthy resident of New York. The Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D. D., was its first president. Mr. Robert supported the institution till his death in 1878, and then bequeathed to it onefifth of his estate. His gifts to the institution amounted in all to about $450,000. The college was incorporated as a branch of the University of New York in 1864.
The permission to erect suitable buildings was given by the Sultan in 1869. The two main buildings were erected respectively in 1871 and 1893. The course of study is similar to that of an American college, with special stress laid on the teaching of English. There is a preparatory course of five years. During the World War the buildings of the college were used as a hospital. Over 3,500 students have graduated since the foundation of the institution. President, Caleb F. Gates, D.D., LL.D.
ROBERT, HENRY MARTYN, an American army officer, born at Robert- Scone, March 26, 1371. He had long ville, S. C., in 1837. He graduated from acted as regent, and had done good service in the English wars. An act of Parliament in 1375 settled the crown on his sons by his first wife Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan, illegitimate by ecclesiastical law. His reign was comparatively a peaceful one, one of the chief events being the battle of Otterburn. He died in Dundonald Castle, May 13, 1390. ROBERT III., King of Scotland, eldest son of the preceding; born in 1340 and was originally called John, but changed his name on his coronation in 1390. Having been lamed by accident, he was unable to engage in military pursuits, and he trusted the management of affairs almost entirely to his brother, whom he created Duke of Albany. In 1398 Albany was compelled to resign his office by a party who wished to confer it on the king's eldest son, David, Duke of Rothesay. War was renewed with England, and the battle of Homildon Hill, Sept.
United States Military Academy in 1857 and in the same year was made 2nd lieutenant of engineers. Rising through the successive ranks of the service, he became chief of engineers of the United States Army, with the rank of brigadier-general, on April 30, 1901, but was retired on May 2 of the same year, after having reached the legal age limit. The most important assignments of his military career included service at the United States Military Academy, in 1856-7, and again in 1865 to 1867; the command of the exploration party of a military route from Vancouver to Puget Sound, in 1860; engineer in charge of defenses of Philadelphia, in 1861-2, and of New Bedford, from 186 1862 to 1865; chief engineer of the Military Division of the Pacific, from 1867 to 1871; engineer in charge of various light house districts and river and harbor improvements, from 1871 to 1895; president of the United States Board of Engineers for ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER Fortifications, from 1895 to 1901. In 1901-2, and again in 1915, he was a member of the commission to design a sea-wall for Galveston. He published "Robert's Rules of Order" (1876, 1893, 1915); and "Index to Reports of Chief of Engineers U. S. A., on River and Harbor Improvements, from 1866 to 1887" (2 volumes, 1881, 1889).