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was in the afternoon there were [[underlined in red]] no bad smells [[/underlined in red]] and fish and meat seemed fresh [[underlined in red]] altho' there was no ice. [[/underlined in red]] Dry atmosphere may help this. Many very old and extraordinarily [[underlined in red]] wrinkled men and women [[/underlined in red]] Short visit to the [[underlined in red]] Universidad Mayor de San Marco. [[/underlined in red]] the oldest University in America, founded [[underlined in red]] 100 years before Harvard [[/underlined in red]] on the plan of Salamanca. It is vacation so the place was empty. The old building is kept in excellent repair and the rooms are used as they were originally intended. All sections intercommunicating and separated by little patios, where a few plants grow bordered by grass and kept green by irrigation. a little fountain sparkling water in the middle. Everything
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seems clean and recently painted. The place [[underlined in red]] looks decidedly cleaner than did the old University building in Ghent. [[/underlined in red]] and their sanitary contrivences altho' not of the best [[underlined in red]] were ^[[decidedly]] better than those in Ghent [[/underlined in red]] 
Their [[strikethrough]] bib [[/strikethrough]] library was closed [[underlined in red]] but the janito [[/strikethrough]] in the afternoon but the janitor let me in, then a young [[underlined in red]] professor of Zoology, [[/underlined in red]] accompanied me and showed me different departments. Their chemical [[underlined in red]] laboratory was very simple [[/underlined in red]] so were the other departments. But [[underlined in red]] everything looked clean and cheerful. [[/underlined in red]] Plain laticed benches plain movable tables everywhere. Models of botany or biology, directly in the class room along the walls. Illumination from above thru the ceiling in this rainless country is very effective.