TRIBUTEs To HIS MEMORY. 299 and will be an example to generations to come. It grieves mc to think that the chair which he occupied is vacant this evening, and that must be the feeling which animates cvery one here. Mr. G. Findlay Shirras:- I rise to support the resolution. We meet here today to fulfil a sad duty-to lament over the loss of onc of our colleagues who since the Senate last met, has passed into the Great Beyond. Speaking as one who cnjoyed his friendship on this Senate for nearly a decade, and speaking, too, as a Bengal man, I fecl that our University has lost onc of thc ablest and biggest hearted of men. The memory of Sir Gooroo Das will ever cndear itself to all of us. His deep learning carried with that humility which is the truct garl of the Scholar, his inflexible picty, his sage and kindly advice as the Nestor of the Sonate, and the possession of a dominating sense of public duty were his outstanding qualities. As his Excellency the Viceroy pointed out the other day, he served the interests of the University with conspicuous efficiency and a zeal particularly his own. His influence on this Scinate was unassessable, and he realised that what India requires above everything else at the present time is more and better education, and that a modern Indian University must cxtend the teaching of commerce and technology in order to divert the mass of its students more and more from purcly literary pursuits to a command over those processes of commerce, industry, and agriculture by which alone material prosperity can come to India. Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee came perhaps nearer than any Bengalee of his time to the ideal of
