The Indian Journal of Education. a Monthly Review February 1898

older Universities that an address shall be delivered at the meeting of the Senate for the purpose of conferring degrees ; nor with the exception of the few academical utterances with which the public orator introduces those whom the University delights to honour is the practice usual so82 far as I am aware in the great and ancient seats of learning in the West. [...] It means that the diffusion of European science through the medium of the venacular languages of the Province which is one of the special objects for the promotion of which the University was constituted has practcally not commenced while through the medium of the English langage knowledge is being multiplied. [...] [ am merely pointing' out a plain fact--and i do not See how it is possible to avoid the conclusion that either the people of the Punjab are determined to acquire the enlightenment of the West through the medium of the English language or that the University is failing to provide the means for carrying out one of its foremost objects. [...] It is for this reason that in immediate proximity to the object of promoting the diffusion of European science as enunciated both in the preamble to the Act of Incorporation and in the Statutes of the University the improvement and extension of Verncular literature is insisted upon and until greater activity is shown in the latter the attainment of the former must remain in abeyance. [...] If a flood of such literature could be poured over the face of the Province of one quarter of the volume of the appalling trash that one sees notified under the head of Verncular publications in the Gazette the study of Western knowledge through the medium of the Vernacular whold be less of an :yn is fubtus than it has hitherto been.