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India of the spirit of research. It was originally
conceived in the form of a University for post-
graduate study. It was never meant to be simply a
higher kind of Technical Institute, but a seat of in-
tellectual and scientific culture. The man who con-
ceived such a project showed that he was in touch
with the best aspirations of the educated classes in
India, that he desired to place within their reach and
in their own land the highest means of culture simitar
to .those that are enjoyed by the most progressive
nations of our time. I regard Mr. Tata as in reality
a great University reformer, one who felt the limita-
tions of present systems and sought to advance be-
yond them. If Mr. Tata's real aim is thus kept in
view and realised in any adequate measure, his Insti-
tute will help to raise the tone of all higher education
in India. Surely the man who devised such liberal
.things for his country and by his splendid
munificence made it possible for them to be
seriously undertaken, has deserved well of his
-country and especially of the city of which for so
many years he was a leading inhabitant. There is
just one tinge of regret mingling with our satisfac-
tion as we think of his project that now seems fairly
on the way to realisation. As things at present
stand, it looks as if the Institute is to have its home
in a region remote from Bombay. In Mr. Tata's
Advisoiy Committee I have from the first pressed
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