The Ripon College Magazine January 1932

Amongst the many distinct and enduring services that he rendered during the short period of his stay with us we may specially note the re-constitution of the College Union in the working of which he took a special and personal interest the institution of the Students' Aid Fund and of the Provident Fund for teachers and the office staff the inauguration of periodical Social Unions where students [...] In the House of the Spirit—and what is the nation but a spirit ?—there are many servants and many are the modes of service But the true ditinction is not been these varying modes and aptitudes but between the true Servant and the false between the worker and the shirker between the exploiter of a sacred ideal for his own aggrandisement and the true Servitor who effaces himself for the sake [...] Proceeding to state the Government's attitude to the interim report of the Royal Commission she said in regard to recommendations for the increase of contributions and the decrease of benefits that the result would be to lower the standard of life of the most unfortunate part of the community and to drive them back on the poor law from which they had been rescued so recently. [...] He is in love with the faces of man woman and child —with the innocency of the babe with the dreams and strivings the passions and languors of youth with the enchanment and the tenderness of womanhood and with the serenity and wisdom of age. [...] And the supreme significance of the advent of Tagore is that he comes like the first rain-cloud of July on the parched horizon to carry messages of love between Ramgiri and Alaka to assist at the wedding of Heaven and Earth and in the course of his journeyings to and fro shedding on hill and dale on river and forest on city and hamlet the cooling and soothing mystery of shade the rfreshi