TRIBUTEs. To HIs MEMORY. 289 the Berhampur Bar. Here his talents soon secured him an extensive practice. In 1872 he left Berhampur and joined the High Court Bar. Hero again within a short time he came to the front rank of the Vakils. In 1876 Mr. Gooroo Dass obtained the Degrce of Doctor of Law. In 1887 he beeame a Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal, and in 1888 was given a seat on the Bench of the Court. During the years 1890 to 1892 Dr. Gooroo Das performed the dutics of the Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University in addition to his duties as a Judge of this Court. Although the rule of retirement at 60 years of age did not apply to him, Mr. Justice Banerji retired just on the completion of the age of 60 years in February, 1904, in order that he night not block the promotion of other deserving Indians to the Bench, and also that he might devote greater attention to the education of our youths. True to his determination, from the day of his retirement from the Bench of this Court to the date of his last illness in October, 1918, he was always busy with the affairs of the Calcutta University. During this period there was hardly any public movement calculatcd to improve the welfare of Indians in which he did not take an active part and yet with all these engagements he found time to bring out treatises on religious, mathematical and educational subjects. In private life, Sir Gooroo Dass was a man of wide sympathies. He always acted strictly up to the high standard of morality which he preached to his students, and never swerved from the path of rectitude. Such, briefly, was the many-sided
