The Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Calcutta Literary Society

E. the then Viceroy and Governor-General of India and Companion Of The Most Exalted Order Of The Star Of India by Her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria—The Good on Wednesday the t6th day of February 1887 on the auspicious occasion of the Golden fubilee of the Reign of Her Most Excellent and Imperial Majesty. [...] The Members of the Society the graduates and under-graduates of the Calcutta University and other gentlemen of the metropolis and suburbs composed the bulk of the audience. [...] The Remedy : It was a matter of great satisfaction to the speaker that the leaders of the people had taken the matter in hand and that he could heartily thank His Excel ency the Right Hon'ble the Governor of Bengal for the prompt measures he was taking to improve the sanitation of the districts. [...] It is in the nature of the htiman mind to hanker after religious truths and knowledge after the knowledge of the great Creator and the deep mysteries of the creation and life and where ignorance prevails all sorts of false theries promulgated by crafty and interested parsons prevail over the minds of the people and generate many evil manners and customs among them that corrode into the v [...] 7 The study of FOREIGN LANGUAGES also should form an important part in the education of the people of India for thereby they would be able to study the thoughts and histories of the other nations of the world and assimilate the good from them to their own life and also he able to keep themselves abreast with the progress of the world.