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- 
wisher, 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- the 
need of entire honesty as the only foundation on which 
it is safe to build. It is a prime essential that all who 
are in any way responsible for the 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 
University 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 the 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 have a profound influence in all 
things educational, social, economic, industrial, through¬ 
out this whole region, because of the very fact of 
Egypt’s immense 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 fortunate 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- 
