severe disciplinary issues inherited from his predecessor and personally contracted critical upgrades to the physical plant. However, the most significant event of Hamlin's administration—one that would prove key in maintaining Middlebury's stability later on—was the college's decision to accept women in 1883. Hamlin was seventy-four by 1885 when he unsurprisingly retired. He published Among the Turks (1878) and My Life and Times (1893). Hamlin Hall at Boğaziçi University (formerly part of Robert College), as well as Hamlin Hall in Middlebury College's Freeman International Center are named after him. For many years, he lived in Lexington, Massachusetts. He is buried in Lexington's Munroe Cemetery. Notes 1811 births 1900 deaths People from Waterford, Maine American Congregationalist missionaries American biographers American male biographers American Christian theologians People from Bangor, Maine Presidents of Middlebury College Bowdoin College alumni Bangor Theological Seminary alumni Bangor Theological Seminary faculty American expatriates in the Ottoman Empire Missionary educators