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“ How to arrest the steady decline in the efficiency of the education given in the colleges,—which do the entire under-graduate teaching work,—so as to provide the indispensable reliable basis for that post-graduate teaching which is now the monopoly of the University staff, and also to turn out really educated graduates for life’s work. ”

“ People who give anxious thought to the future of Bengal have been asking themselves whether the Calcutta University is any nearer reform and whether realities are asserting themselves in the counsels of its present Senate. ”

“ If no reform is made in the University’s administration and the post-graduate staff continues inflated as in the past, the deficit to be made good by Government will not stop at 31⁄2 lakhs a year but will go on expanding with the natural increase of progressive salaries and provident fund contributions ”

“ The public cry was for retrenchment and reform, for combining genuine efficiency with wise economy at the sacrifice of spectacular expansion and rank luxuriance of staff which cannot possibly be maintained for long in such a country as ours. ”

“ The Bengalis are not inferior to any other race in India in brain-power, and Bengal has enjoyed the immense advantage of British peace, British administration, and European learning for a much longer period than any other province of India. ”

“ With the rise of the Indian masses to political consciousness, the demand for free primary schools and rural dispensaries will become irresistible, and the expenditure or large sums of public money for the highest education of the bhadralok classes will become harder to defend in any legislature elected on a broad franchise. ”

“ The Majority are not prepared for any reduction, while they recommend large increments of salary, often amounting to double..... It remains to be seen if the Government will agree to part with the tax-payers’ money for educational schemes which have obviously been planned without reference to the rudimentary principles of business. ”