294 TRIBUTEs. To HIS MEMORY. an example to us all-modest, untiring, checrful and large-hearted to the end. Special Meeting of the Senate fiefd on the 30th December 1918 under the Presidency of His Excellency the Rector the Earl of Ronaldsfhay. His Exceffency the Rector:-Before I call upon the Hon’ble the Vice-Chancellor to move a resolution, I should like to place on record my own sense of the great loss which Bengal has sustained in the death of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee. One of the greatest assets which a country can possess is the example of the lives of its great men, and it is fitting, therefore, that the country should see that their memory is perpetuated. And, if I may say so in passing, it seems to me particularly appropriate that the University should take the lead in this matter. For if there was one subject more than any other with which the late Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee was identified, I should say it was the subject of the educational development of this country. A brilliant scholar himself, he took a keen interest and played a conspicuous part in the development of education in Bengal. He was the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. He was a member of the Indian Universities Commission in 1902. He was a man of extraordinary versatility. There is no need for me to refer to his fame as a lawyer which is widespread. He was, I believe, a fine mathematician, and as such naturally took a great interest and was one of the prime movers in founding the Association for the Cultivation of Science in Calcutta. He was an ardent admirer of Bengalee literature, and he was a profound
