The Bombay Educational Record

of Ripon remarked that the Syndicate of this University is bound to establish well 'in the light of day and in the face of the public the right' of every reco pient to such a distinction that the recipient ought to stand forth as a representative either of learning Which will give illustration to this institution Or else as one distinguished for eminent public services which make us proud o [...] 5 it dates from so recent a period that I am unable of my own knowledge to recapitulate the services you have rendered to the cause of education in India ; but Sir could I have done so that portraiture would have been but the photograph of outlines tell ing nothing of the traits of character; of he facility and luxuiance of exposition of the force of example of the kindliness of dispositi [...] And by that time it is indis-: imitable that the direction of mental activity that constitutes the fundamental element in the process of learning is determined by interest which according to the view I am now taking means a preceding adjustment of the mind to the factor truth to be learnt. [...] It is the same in the case of matter less excitant of the emotions say the demonstration of the 5th proposition of Euclid. [...] The same control is implied in our modern and more scientific mariner of teaching by evoking to the utmost the activity of the pupil's mind in the process of learning.