116 FvFNTS OF HIS IFF. Viceroy's council in introducing the Indian Universities Bill spoke of his co-operation as follows:- "My hon’ble and learned colleague, Mr. Justice Banerjee whose co-operation I shall always remember with gratitude and pleasure signed the Report subject to a note of dissent on certain specificd points.' And later, in the course of the debate on the Bill, he said, “When I came to discuss the matter with my hon’ble colleague Dr. Gooroodas Banerji, it seemed to us undersirable to break so suddenly and so completely with the past. We set ourselves to discover whether it should not be possible to keep to the original Acts of Incorporation with such traditions and sentiments as had gathered round them and to provide for the constitutional changes that appeared to us to be required by means of a general amending act.' And it was on these lines that the Indian Universities Act of 1904 has been framed. On several points the views expressed in the note of dissent above referred to have been adopted in the Indian Universities Act and in the Regulations of the alcutta University. Of these tho following may be mentioned here:- (1) The retention of second-grade Colleges. (2 The retention of independent Law Colleges. (3) The vesting of powers in the Senate to deal with the question of disaffiliation of Colleges. (4) The vesting of powers in the Sonate to make rules for recognition of Schools. (5) The exclusion of teachers for appointment as paper-setters in the subjects they teach.
