The First Convocation Ceremony of Gita Bitan Held at the Government House Calcutta. Sunday the 3rd September 1950

For the improvement of the city is best assured by improving the soul of its citizens"through music and a cosmopowran city like Calcutta should take the lead in hi.recting the first 'Tagore Auditorium' in India where music-lovers from the East and the West would collaborate and serve the best musical treats to the public. [...] In this age of discord we appeal to our National Government and to the generous public to lay the foundation of this Hall of Harmony—the Tagore Auditorium' in the memory of the World Poet. [...] Names of the students of Gitabitan who passed the first Diploma Examination held in 1949 and qualified themselves for the Upadhis of the Society conferred on them at the Convocation. [...] The Society is grateful to Your Excellency for the kind and keen interest you have all along taken in the furtherance of the cause it represents and we take this opportunity of expressing how deeply sensible we are of the honour done to us by you in inviting the Society to hold the Convocation in this Marble Hall replete with many memories of the past. [...] the literary side mention may be made of a publication entitled Cipk.abita.n Varshiki' brought out by Gitabitan in 1944 wherein an attempt was made for the first time to present interpretations of the contributions of Rabindranath Tagore to the different branches of arts particularly music drama and the stage the revival and re-orientation of the dance movement in India and other allied subjec