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as they charge for Spaniards. Parishes arc farmed out on 

 account of profits not by the church, but by the Span- 

 iards. No priest gets these desirable parishes unless he 

 happens to have been born in Spain. It is the Spanish 

 blood that contaminates the church, and not the church 

 that does the injury. It was partly the Spaniards' acts in 

 introducing abuses into the church that brought about the 

 latest insurrection. The religious condition of the island 

 is as bad as the political. 



Education is still much neglected. The chief educational 

 institutions are the Havana University, two professional 

 schools, with meteorological observatories attached, one 

 agricultural school, and two seminaries. There are several 

 private as well as public schools, aggregating in all seven 

 hundred and fifty institutions, with some thirty thousand 

 students and scholars. 



The Havana University is modeled after the Spanish 

 universities, and its curriculum is chiefly devoted to medi- 

 cine, law, theology, and an obsolete system of philosophy. 

 Its entire faculty was disposed of by imprisonment and 

 banishment last year, while the students have always been 

 looked upon with a suspicion of sedition. The public 

 schools are decidedly few, most of the better classes of 

 Cubans patronizing the private institutions. 



