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...blind intolerance. The president of the university is elected by the sheiks of the mosque, who are extremely jealous of their rights, and obstinately resist all the efforts made by the khedive to improve the character of the instruction given. Text-books once adopted are never changed, and the whole course of training consists in committing these treatises to memory...
...said there had been a misunderstanding, and that instead of lecturing Mr. Arnold would read several of his poems. Mr. Arnold then read for about an hour, prefacing his verses with remarks explanatory of the occasion of their being written, and of the allusions contained in them. On the whole, Mr. Arnold's rendering was very good, though it was occasionally marred by indistinct utterance...
...Slocumb. The hares, who covered about 18 miles to the hounds 21, take first prizes, Mr. Slocumb takes second and Mr. Matthewson third. The other hounds were a few minutes behind. The hares had never ridden as hares before and the badness of the scent as a whole was due to this fact...
...result is, that the instructor has to call the role each lecture, taking up considerable time thereby. The average time for calling these 100 names, is six minutes. Now when there are eighty men present, there is a complete loss of 8 hours time to the section as a whole, besides the loss of patience. Why are not monitors appointed? The lists must have been completed long ago. I understand also, that there is one course, in which there are 140 men, and eleven minutes are used by the watch. This would make a grand total of 25 hours lost...
...thirteen minutes after he ran the second quarter in 55sec. ; fourteen minutes later he ran the third quarter in 52 3-5 sec. ; and after another rest of fourteen minutes he finished the fourth and last quarter in 52 4-5sec. ; doing the whole distance in 3min. 31 4-5sec. The time from first start to finish was 44min. 31 2-5sec., whereas, when Westhall made his record, the entire hour was con sumed...