In the light of the experience gained of the work to be done the first objective of the new department was to formulate a general statement of policy more particlarly in the matter of education. [...] And if this sorrow-smitten world is to be filled with the fragrance of spring and its heart healed of strife and pain it will be tnrough the efforts of some who discern these deeper values of existence and listen to the Unseen Voice in the song of the bird and the whisper of the leaf and the hum of the human life. [...] "That the Unversity of Calcutta views with the strongest abhorence and condemnation all acts and practices during the present War having the effect of intesifying the cruelties and sufferings inseparable from a state of war and which are in violation of i moral and international obligations and leading to the destruction of Universities Libraries Mseums works of art and other aids o [...] r APRIL 1915 the shameful breaches of international law and the wanton destruction of libraries museums and historic works of art that are reported of the Germans in the present War and warmly associates itself with the determination of the British Empire and its Allies to crush Prussian militarism and as far as is possible to compensate the Belgians for the losses they have sustained." The amen [...] Mr James then moved the following :- "That the University of Calcutta views with the strongest abhorrence and condemnation doctrines about war which glorify force and violence and doctrines about the conduct of war which have led to acts and practices intensifying the sufferings inseparable from a state of war : The University condemns in particular as wholly indefensible the destruction of the
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