K. Subba Rau

“ The Convocation addresses of the Bombay and Madras Universities are so valuable in themselves and are the productions of such eminent men, that no words of mine are needed to commend them to the cordial acceptance of the public. They furnish an authentic history of the commencement and progress of Higher Education in the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. In them are found an admirable exposition of liberal education and its marvellous effects ”

“ There is hardly any subject of practical importance which they fail to traverse. On the supreme necessity of the education and elevation of Indian women, "the insatiable passion" for foreign travel that ought to animate the educated youths of the country, the willing homage that must be paid to rules of sanitation, the methods calculated to increase the material prosperity of the country, and a variety of equally weighty subjects, the accompanying pages contain the mature opinions of many of the best thinkers of the present and the preceding generation. ”