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[[margin, red pencil, written vertically]] U. San Marco [[/margin, red pencil, written vertically]]
Aside from this electric light has been installed which seems somewhat out of harmony with the simple and antique surroundings. Students number [[underlined in red]] 4000. [[/underlined in red]] enter the University at [[strikethrough]] 16 [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] 16 or 17. [[/underlined in red]] they either study law, [[underlined in red]] sciences [[/underlined in red]] {natural or mathematical) letters or [[underlined in red]] medecine. [[/underlined in red]] - the latter faculty has a special building so have the engineers, agricultural school etc. The University has [[strikethrough]] Wa [[/strikethrough]] a museum, [[underline din red]] rat [[/strikethrough]] very limited however. [[underlined in red]] Everything is on a rather modest scale. Went to see the Mueso of the city last but it was closing time. Near the entrance were the premises occupied by the [[underlined in red]] Federation de Estudiautes. [[/underlined in red]] which is some sort of
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[[underlined in red]] inter - university club [[/underlined in red]] but which [[underlined in red]] misses the usual features of similar clubs [[/underlined in red]] (dining or sleeping?) facilities) of our American student clubs.. Three or four [[underlined in red]] students [[/underlined in red]] including [[underlined in red]] their president [[/underlined in red]] showed me around and were [[underlined in red]] very friendly [[/underlined in red]] and their president asked me to [[underlined in red]] deliver a letter of greetings to our students in Columbia. [[/underlined in red]] One student intended to go and study medecine in [[underlined in red]] Columbia University. [[/underlined in red]] He spoke some english but was totally unable to follow a conversation or to understand anything I said to him ^ [[insert]] in English [[/insert]] altho' I spoke very slowly. Two others who spoke french, were unable to understand what I told them in [[underlined in red]] French. [[/underlined in red]] [[strikethrough]] so U an so [[strikethrough]] Afterwards went to the Exposition Restaurant near by in time to make