144 EvENTs of His LIFE. Banerjee, and to say that his oration fully maintains the traditions of the great office which he fills. 7he Bengalee, 25th January 1890. The experiment of appointing an Indian ViceChancellor to an Indian University is a new one and will undoubtedly be watched with great interest by every section of the community. But because the experiment is a new onc, or indeed the first of its kind in this country we have no reason to focl anxious for a moment as to its success. In the first place the selection of the new Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University has fallen upon one, regarding whose qualifications there has never been any division of opinion. Everywhere and by all sorts and conditions of men the appointment of Mr. Justico Gooroodass Banerjee to succeed Sir Comer Potheramn as Vice-Chancellor of the Univesity has boon welcomed with great satisfaction, a circumstance on which His Excellency aptly congratulated the recipient of the unprecedented honour. Then the advent of an Indian Vice-Chancellor must inspire more confidence among the Indian public generally than that of a Europcan Vice-Chancellor. In matters educational as in political or civic affairs, he is most successful who is most in touch with the people. An Indian Vice-Chancellor possesses the advantage of a positive knowledge of his community, its educational position, its educational defects and its educational aspirations. He will not be likely to indulge in loose experiments. An Indian Wicc-Chancellor is always with his people.
