Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...facilities for studying the manuscripts in the libraries of Jerusalem, Cairo, Mt. Athos, and Constantinople are very good. The libraries contain printed catalogues of the old manuscripts in them and the custodians allow explorers free access to the manuscripts. In addition to this the books are properly housed. So it is seen that the facilities for research in the East are fully as good as in the West; there are only three of the collections at Cambridge, England, which are properly catalogued and most of the manuscripts in America are so little known as to be of little...
...being able to spend a week in a portion of the country and coming away with an exhaustive knowledge of it. So, in the present case, he describes a trip down the Mississippi and is geographically as much at home as if he had spent his life going from Cairo to Memphis and back again...
...Moslem University, at Cairo, founded in 975 A. D., has 10,000 students, the largest number of any educational institution in the world...
...Garrison's Letter to the Boston Herald, two editorials on the present stand of the faculty on the three year's scheme and on certain defects of the English Department, "The Month," and four book reviews, (among which, the reader will find Mr. Santayana's criticism of "In Cairo" by William Morton Fullerton especially valuable) complete the number...
...Cairo," by William Morton Fullerton. MacMillan, New York and London. 1891. 75 cents...