Visva-Bharati News. February 1950

8. FEBRUARY 1950 FOUR ANNAS SPECIAL MANDIR SERVICES Three special services were held at the Mandir during the month of January : on the 20th to observe the death anniversary of Mabarshi Debendrnath Tagore ; on the 25th evening in celebration of Maghotsava ; and on the 30th evening to mark the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. [...] Eathindranath Tagore Karma-Sachiva then spoke as follows inviting Miss Agatha Harrison to perform the opening ceremony : Friends It is in the fitness of things that the name of C. F. Andrews should be Commemorated on the occasion of the meeting of the World Pacifist Conference in Santiniketan. [...] This is only part of the memorial to Andrews in Santiniketan the others being a hospital for the poor near Sriniketan the foundation stone of which was laid by Mahatma Gandhi and a chain of Dinabandhu Wells for the poor in the villages round about. [...] This department of Visva-Bharati is to perpetuate and continue Andrews' work as a reconciler in thought between East and West His long and devoted friendship with Gurudeva Tagore a symbol to us of the meeting of the East and the West and in it Santiniketan realized that something of the ideals of its Founder found its fulfilment. [...] The party visited all the places of interest in the neighbouhood including the Hundru Jona and liajrappa falls and the lunatic asylum.