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Coit, '83, has been appointed consular secretary at the American legation at Teheran, Persia, and leaves for there Saturday. He is the oldest son of Rev. Joshua Coit, secretary of the Home Missionary Society...
...there understood, have been sent to him to translate, which he has done without difficulty. It is reported that his familiarity with the Persian tongue, as well as with nearly all the important languages of Asia and Europe, has caused his appointment as charge d'affaires in Persia to be strongly recommended and favorably considered at Washington...
...college has been established with government aid in Persia. The professors are graduates of European Universities...
Omar Khayam, or Omar the Tent-maker, is the Horace of Persia. He was born in Khorassan, about the middle of the eleventh century of our era, and died in the year 1123. His life was passed in astronomical studies, and he probably composed his quatrains, which are bound together by no logical connection, in the intervals of his professional work...
...same veins, and evolved the same conclusions, as the minds of the leading philosophers and scientists of to day. It is only within a few years that theologians of established worth have been willing to admit truths in regard to the future life that the astronomer poet of Persia uttered eight centuries...