text:  Mr White states the number of students in Stamboul in 1843 at not less than 5000 all of whom were lodged instructed and furnished with one meal a-day at the expense of the _wakoof_ or foundation (a term which we shall hereafter more fully explain ) all their other expenses being at their own charge; but "the sallow complexions and exhausted appearance of these young men indicate intense labour or most limited commons