TRIBUTEs TO IIIS MEMORY. 297 he has set and to approach these questions which must come before us very shortly, in thc spirit, which he would undoubtedly have approved, 'ir, earnestness, good will and moderation. I do not intend to say anything about the second part of the requisition, because that will form the subject of a separate resolution. I thcrefore, beg to move that the Senate place on record its deep sense of the great loss which the University has sustained through the death of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee, who was a Fellow of the University for forty years and Vice-Chancellor for three years from 1890 to 1892, and that a copy of the resolution be sent to the head of the family of which the late Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee was such a distinguished ornament. Sir Ashutosh Mookerjee: A feeling of indescribable sadness comes upon me as I rise to second the resolution which has been moved by the Hon'ble the Vice-Chancellor. My memory takes me back thirty years to the day when I first came to this University as a young member of the Senate and found the Hon'ble Mr. Justicc Gooroo Ilass Banerjee, as he then was, one of the foremost leaders amongst a galaxy of brilliant men all of whom save one, have now departed. The sole survivor is Sir Rashbehary Ghose, who has expressed his regret at his unavoidable absence this evening. Even at that stage of the career in this University of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee, his work was distinguished by the zeal and devotion which have never been surpassed and hardly, if ever, equalled in our annals. Shortly afterwards he was appointed the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of this
