The Bombay University Calendar for the Year 1871-72. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...within this Presidency in the pursuit of a regular and liberal course of education?"--have those who have won its laurels proved themselves true children of their alma mater?--has the University established its reputation by providing men fit to be teachers of its students?--has it proved, as Sir Bartle Frere hoped it would prove, that Oriental intellect is not worn out; that while it possesses great capacity to receive and retain knowledge, it also has the power to analyse and combine, that it can now produce the same results of a high order of intellect as those of which the ancient literature of the country gives such abundant evidence?--above all, has it produced men who, while rising high in the ranks of scholastic ability and scientific learning, have shown themselves valuable citizens of the world? I trust the results of our past experience enable us to answer much of this, in the affirmative. Already have three of the professorial chairs been filled from its graduates, besides many of those important posts, the headships of the High Schools--papers on abstruse questions have been produced--the ranks of the bar and the medical service of the State have been recruited from its alumni. These arc indeed subjects for sincere congratulations. But doubts have been breathed as to whether the University will turn out as valuable citizens of the world as did Professors Bell and Henderson, Harkness and Green, in the days of the old Elphinstone Institution;--it has been hinted that our best men will prove to be but pedants--that, however full of classical aud mathematical learning they may be, they arc not so well fitted for mixing with the world, for taking their part in the government of the country, or for forming for their country a healthy and just pu...