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| S1QeIaDle importance whose WOIks
might compare with Manu-,
Chanak, Shanker, Kalinas, Lii.
avoti or Tulsidas, Faize, Abul-
foil, Ghalib, Zang Sanda, has
been produced in the last 1oc
years is sufficient argument in
favor ofturning away from the
| present foreign universities and
creating our own national uui-
verslty. A university not only
makes scholars, but it also pre-
pares the general condition out
of which a national literature
grows. A national university
promotes conditions of largeness
of mind, of intellectual vision, of
purity OF heart, of dignity of
conduct, and of social relation
ship-conditions which are re-
hected in the national literature
and language OF country. A
national language is necessary
for the progress of literary art.
Another function of a univer-
,'ty is to promote research, viz:
I4qniripg after truth for truths
,ake. Research in India can
never be fruitful SO long as the
searchers are forced to think in a
foreign language; national uni
versity lould, therefore, en-
courage the searchers in their
own language and provioe ample
resources by giving the scholar
time and opportunity (Which an
alien university can never give
TO our scholars); freedom from
corruption, freedom from care as
to his material support, after we
have discovered ones ability to
concentrate efforts in research.
Beyond this the national unlver-
sitv in Bengal cannot go-its chief
aim should be rather to dissent
nate and popularize knowledge
at present than to make special
investigation which is the out
come only of years of experience
and national training.
To train officers worthy OF the
state is another function. But
the national university cannot
pretend to do much in this di-
rection; considering the political
subordinates of India, let our
| university content itself with
training a gentlemanly character
and preparing its students for the
most important administrative
and executive places in the native
states and to fill up all such posi-.
tions as the ever-growing COM
merce and industry requires OF
shall call for in face of the en-.
HANGED demand for well-educated
and trained men to carry on the
business of the country and ad-
vance the cause of swadestic
movement. Let the national
university produce thin kers,
weighers of evidence and Judges
of relations. Let us train the
intellect as we'll as the Other
parts of ones nature, that the
man, if chosen president, leg
islator, or judge, shall dc the
work belonging to the position
with efficiency and satisfaction
In preparing men for the high
est places in the world let th'
university content itself will
making a thinker, for sount
thinker can solve all the pro
blems imposed on him with facil
ity, whether they be military
civil, financial or commercial.
The second most importan
question to be decided for th
national university is the medinn
of language through which th
| teaching is to be impaired. n
. one will hesitate to say that TIL,
. best medium to be employed fo
: instruction by national univer
sity should be the same languag
which is destined to be the futur
| language of India. But wha
should be the future languag
/ has to be decided by the nations
r council itself. 1t is, therefore
| a hard question to decide. Tn
"Ek lipi bistar" Sobha of Ber
: gal has in way inaugurated
scheme, which, if successful, wi
solve the problem OF nations
| language, but before the adver
l