The Collegian and Progress of India. December 1913

Surely the time had come when the unversities in India should recognise and reward the study of modern languages of India their origins and growth and the materials they supplied for the investigation of the historians of language and philologists generally. [...] * RECENTLY the Government of Bengal forwared to the Indian Mining Association a report of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India to enquire into the system of State Technical Scholarships established by the Government of India in 1904. [...] Just as in England in the sixteenth century the new interest in the classical languages and the exploitations of their treasures awakened in its turn a new enthusiasm for the vernacular and as Ascham put it for "English matter in the English tongue for Englishmen ;" so in Bengal to day the study of English has led to the creation or at any rate the renewal of a love for the Bengalee tongue an [...] 'Gentlemen one of the most honourable prerogatives of a Viceroy is the dignity of the position he holds as Chancellor of the Calcutta University but it is a dignity which carries with it no small sense of responsibility for I always feel that the universities of India represent the quintesence of India's cultivated intellect and that their rarefied atmosphere conduce to the development of a [...] 'The Act of r9o4 widened the scope of activity of the universites by imposing upon them teaching functions in addition to the examination function which they had possessed before and the objects on which the University of Madras have proposed to spend the liberal grants made by the Goverment of India appear to be well divided for the purpose of carrying out this intention 'The care you are b