ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE 
UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO, 
By COLONEL ROOSEVELT, 
March 28, 1910 . 
It is to me a peculiar pleasure to speak to-day under 
such distinguished auspices as yours, Prince Fouad, 1 
before this National University, and it is of good 
augury for the great cause of higher education in Egypt 
that it should have enlisted the special interest of so 
distinguished and eminent a man. The Arabic-speak¬ 
ing world produced the great University of Cordova, 
which flourished a thousand years ago, and was a source 
of light and learning when the rest of Europe was 
either in twilight or darkness. In the centuries following 
the creation of this Spanish Moslem University, Arabic 
men of science, travellers, and geographers—such as the 
noteworthy African traveller, Ibn Batuta, a copy of 
whose book, by the way, I saw yesterday in the library 
of the Alhazar 2 —were teachers whose works are still to 
be eagerly studied ; and I trust that here we shall see 
the revival, and more than the revival, of the conditions 
that made possible such contributions to the growth of 
civilization. 
This scheme of a National University is fraught with 
literally untold possibilities for good to your country. 
1 Prince Fouad is the uncle of the Khedive. 
2 The great Moslem University of Cairo. 
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