The Bombay Educational Record

A condensed account of the proceedings will be found in another place but we report in full the address presented by the Vice-Chancellor in the name of the Senate to the retiring Chancellor which is equally admirable as a rIeumd of the past history of the University and as an exposition of the principles on which alone any true progress can be based. [...] His expressions have the ease elegance and brevity which characterize the language of the upper classes and the compass variety and flexibility which charaterize the language of genius. [...] We arc unable to recall scarcely even to imagine the vanished life of that long bygone generation—the knights with their 'chivalrous love and brutal ferocity ; the women with the ultra-feminine primness of the cloister or the ultra.manly freedom of the are ; the philosophers with their trivial knowledge and childish speculations ; the witches astrologers and alehymists with their weird un [...] His Excellency the Chancellor replied in a long and eloquent speech in the course of which he reviewed the policy of the British Government towards India especially in educating the natives of the country and paid a high tribute to the loyalty and ability displayed by the native press. [...] Burgess's Arithmetic in consequence of the printer correcting the position of the diacritical marks in the specimens of bad spelling we quoted from the work under review we are made to say the contrary of what we intended.