Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-03-02
AN HINDU REVIEW.
Suggestions on Life in India by
M. G.. Sinha.
SECOND PAPER.

uC SuuSoliohoi PSiA~y "a @o~
nation should be to aim at en-
tightening and not encumbering
the intellect, illumine and not
chill the fancy, elevate and not
debase the soul, strengthen in
stead of enervating the body,
enriching instead of sapping the
man hood-let the national uni
ver>ity no longer cut off an In
dian from his traditions by DENY
ing him a country and thereby
debasing his soul and suppressing
his am bitions for freedom and as
pirations for glory.
To remedy the modern devot-
ional system of education let the
people take control OF educ ton
in their own hands and though
we cannot withdraw in a mass
all school-going children from
government schools, yer We
can transfer the existing private
schools and colleges to a national
university that will te ,ch the
Indian child TO glorv in his own
country, to serve her best interests
and shed his blood in defense OF
her honor, and in defense OF pri-
vate and public rights To sub
stitute a nat.onalizing for de-
Matchmaking system rests with
US and not British legislature,
and, therefore let us do it as Po-
land and Hungary did and Ire
land does now.
A very important function of a
university is the promotion Of
the unity OF the intellectual life.
At the present time the tendency
is to break with all the past; we
desire to make everything new;
we are in peril OF being succumb-
ed to foreign influences and lose
our own individuality. In this
condition the university has 10
staad IS the preacher of rational
conservatism. The national ami
versitv should draw on the ex-
periences of the past for the en-
richment and the ennoblement of
the present, and it we do not do
so the breaking with the past
will end in intellectual bankrupt
cy. In respect to intellectual
conservatism, promoting unity
the university ought to represent
the great law of evolution. The
university ought to represent in
tellectual oneness of the whole
nation through the association Of
the student body and the inaug-
uration of policy to unite all
warning sections into one nation
al life.
Every great nation and age
devotes itself to some supreme
object. In old Hindu times il
was religion, poetry and astron-
omy; in the Greek it was art and
literature; in Rome it was law
in Italy it was church; in Eng.
land, foreign conquest; in Ger.
many, commerce; in India let i,
be the freedom of the nation anc
final federation of mankind or
equal rights and liberties. Te
fulfill this ambition the nationa
university should adapt its teach
ings so as to emphasize a con-
slant inspiration of the brightes
ideas and perpetual incoming
of strength. both spiritual ane
material. 1t must provide lati
tude tor the satisfaction of ths
wants of the highest intellect a
we'll as the money making capa
city of the citizens. Itself seek
ing the highest ideals, untouche,
by selfishness, a university ough
to uplift all communities to tn
highest and best and should con
stantly keep before the nation
love for trnth, moral excellence
appreciation of the beautiful AM
a sacredness of patriotism-a com
modify entirely neglected in
university imposed by foreigne
and fostered by an unnatura
government.
The relation of the universit
to the literature of the nation is
thing of remarkable significance
1t is university that makes
uation's poets, essayists, histor
ians and writer's. The universit
ought to guide its future writer
so as to make them fitting orna