THE UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO 461 



You have many rocks ahead of which you must steer 

 clear ; and because I am your earnest friend and well- 

 M'isher, I desire to point out one or two of these which 

 it is necessary especially to avoid. In the first place, 

 there is one point upon which I always lay stress in my 

 own country, in your country, in all countries tlie 

 need of entire honesty as the only foundation on whicli 

 it is safe to build. It is a prime essential that all who 

 are in any way responsible for tlie beginnings of the 

 University shall make it evident to everyone that the 

 management of the University, financial and otherwise, 

 will be conducted with absolute honesty. Very much 

 money will have to be raised and expended for this 

 Uni\'ersity in order to make it what it can and ought to 

 be made ; for, if properly managed, I firmly believe that 

 it will become one of tlie greatest influences, and 

 perhaps the very greatest influence, for good in all that 

 part of the world where Mohammedanism is the leading 

 religion — that is, in all those regions of the Orient, 

 including North Africa and South- Western Asia, which 

 stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the farther confines 

 of India and to the hither provinces of China. This 

 University should ha\'e a profoimd influence in all 

 things educational, social, economic, industrial, through- 

 out this whole region, because of the very fact of 

 Egypt's inmiense strategic importance, so to speak, in 

 the world of the Orient, an importance due partly to 

 her geographical position, partly to other causes. 

 Moreover, it is most fortimate that Egypt's present 

 position is such that this University will enjoy a free- 

 dom hitherto unparalleled in the investigation and 

 testing out of all problems vital to the future of the 

 peoples of the Orient. 



Nor will the importance of this University be con- 



