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“ When a body of educated men, elected or appointed to assist in the deliberations and to shape the policy of an academic institution follow a similar line of action, the result is that they prove false to the responsibilities of their position and they become helpless like children in the absence of their autocratic leader. ”

“ Is true M. A. teaching possible under the circumstances?
Regarding work in archive-rooms to which Prof. Charkrabarti refers, the reality of the research work under the plea of which many members of the Calcutta post-graduate staff claim only five periods of lecture work per week is best illustrated by the fact that though the Imperial Records office was thrown open to the public in 1919, not one of these professors has worked among the records (except Prof. J. C. Sinha, and he, too, on the eve of his migration to a chair at Dacca) . ”

“ As regards fitness of a university teacher to undertake the teaching of a particular branch of a highly specialised subject, Prof. Sarkar agrees that the Calcutta staff ought to be judged by the standard indicated in the extract from the London University Commission’s Report made by Prof. ”

“ The reign of law and the continuity of system and policy are impossible among such human sheep. See back numbers of this Review for instances, (esp. the inside view of the Calcutta University as given by one of its staff.) The words Maharaja sect have nowhere been used by Prof. Sarkar with reference to our academics. ”