University of Calcutta. Report of the Students Welfare Committee 1936-37

Further development of Aftercare and Follow-up work increased health propaganda among students and the initiation of a !Scheme for investigating the nutritive values of cooked articles of food in common use among the Bengalees with a view to formulate suitable dietaries were the prominent features of the activities of the Students' Welfare Committee during the year 1936-37. [...] In connection with the joint session of the Indian Science Congress and the British Science Association the Jubilee session of the Indian Science Congress held in Calcutta in January 19:38 a meeting of different workers interested in student health and other aspects of student life from the staffs attached to the Students' Welfare Anthro pology and Experimental Psecbology departments of the [...] The due date for the celebrations was the 24th but the function had to be deferred for a week to suit the convenience of the participants. [...] The morning function began with the Route March of students from the different colleges of the city and inofussil numbering over 3 000 who proceeded each college carrying its own banner from the Presidency College compound to the Maidan timing their steps to the music (.1 the band which the University and the colleges had organised. [...] Next came the Vice-Chancellor's inspiring address to the students an address which was remarkable not only for the speaker's sincerity of purpose but also for the value of the practical steps which the University h© said was taking for the amelioration of the coditions of the student community.