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Little did the Orphan dream that the “tempest over the teapot” which blew in May last will continue to rage for all times to come. My one consolation is

The statutory Appointments Board has, on the suggestion of Mr. Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Education Department, been graciously pleased to extend the period of the flickering life of the Post-Graduate teachers for a further term of three months to end on the 31st of December, 1925. How magnanimous of the Statutory Commission! And Mr. Secretary to the Government of Bengal can merely say “noblesse oblige.” The lecturers in the Post-Graduate department, who were characterised by two members of the I.E.S. on a previous occasion as forming themselves into a super-caste, will have the privilege of trembling in their shoes for a further period of three months listening to the “pax vobiscum” of the Senate in deep meditation and with religious attention. Their position is like that of the famous hero in Mother Hubberd’s tale :