Excerpt from The Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss This institution had controlled his thoughts for sixty years. This one thing he did. First there was a period of six years, covering his early mis sionary life in Syria, a period when the idea of the College was slowly germinating. Then followed four strenuous years of direct planning and of the collection of funds, years spent in the United States and in England. Then for thirty-six years he was active President, watching the number of students increase from less than a score to many hundreds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.