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324 The Treasurer of the Leeds University is planning to raise about 15,000,000 rupees to build new buildings alone. Rabindranath Tagore, appealing to all India, has not yet secured a few lakhs of rupees for the Viswa-Bharati—the International University. No nation can ever become great without increasing its national efficiency. India needs new and better Universities and a better educational system. This can be secured through the enlighted patriotism of the people, particularly of the rich, who can better afford to spend regularly at least a part of their income for the cause of national education.

At another place it quotes with approval an extract from the Times advocating retrenchment. And in a third case it emphatically lays down

However, we shall try to answer our contemporary’s friendly criticism as best as we can. The Modern Review complains

The defenders of the University plead guilty to the charge. Criticisms can be met with and discussed but a sneer is always unanswerable. For instance, the honest Professor of Patna solemnly asserts that the University speculated in Marks and land value. The statement is a typical amalgam of half truths and untruths in which our critics revel. The University purchased a number of scientific instruments from Germany and payment had to be made in German money just as payments to English creditors have to be made in English money. Now, if the Professor and his friends assert that it was a case of speculation we can only agree to differ. Similarly, the University never speculated in land value and we have no hesitation in placing all the facts before the public. But when he says that the University Lecturers