Some might mistakenly think it is, especially since it has few of the advantages that university schools usually possess. The only branch that has been taken care of in the Egyptian University so far is the Faculty of Arts, and this branch is rarely desired by the general Egyptian public because they see no material benefit from it. As long as the matter is as stated, it is not easy to know how this situation can be rectified. However, if we consider that there are higher schools for Law, Medicine, Engineering, and Agriculture in the country, then the foundation upon which a true university school can be built already exists.

As for the current university, it is hardly in a position to easily expand its scope to include schools like those mentioned above, without which it cannot be a true university that is progressing.

33 - The Khedivial Library Some changes occurred in the system of the Khedivial Library last year, the most important of which was the formation of a high council headed by the Minister of Education. This council has six members in addition to the president and the library director. Its responsibilities include judging the acquisition of new books, whether manuscripts or printed, the acquisition of papyri, the printing of rare or previously unpublished books, and the disposal of books whose copies are in the library, as well as selling what is not needed or otherwise. It also prepares the annual budget and other matters that fall under the purview of the directors of major libraries in Europe. The council has also been entrusted, in addition to the aforementioned, with overseeing the printing of works related to the revival of Arabic literature. It approved the printing of five books brought by Zaki Pasha to support this revival. It is hoped that one of them will be printed in the next three months, which is the book "Al-Asnam". It is intended to use a systematic method in all these books to separate the periods of a single chapter from each other and to indicate the time as indicated in a recently published booklet by the Ministry of Education titled "Decisions on the Method of Chronology". The directors of printing these books will follow the method of European and American Orientalists, which is generally approved in preparing the original for printing, in writing introductions and indexes, and in adhering strictly to the original text.

The Khedivial Library lost Dr. Morter last year, who had been its director since 1896. He left Cairo in May, and no successor has been appointed yet.