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 STUDY OF RURAL ECONOMICS 69 study for its own s&ko, but only for the s&ke of the ex&mi&tion mirks which c&n be obt&ined by it, is consider&bly exaggerated so, far as Madras students are concerned. When so much depends for an Indian stu- to - his chances. students in dent upon success in ex&min&tions it would be nnf&ir demand from him that he should seriously imperil Nevertheless, the genuine interest of economic studies &nd their readiness to pursue t. hem whe possible irrespective o! the ex&mi- n&tion results is in my experience displayed to & .most the local vzlue o! a response. encouraging In the g&vo sohio well reported emphasized appeal also I extent. months of February public lectures in in press, the village I brought Mr. A. J. S&nuders, Lecturer in mies in the Americ&u College, city; and by the org&nisers and March 1916 Madras which were &nd in which I enquiries. This invited by and Econo- to visit that Kumb&kon&m History M&dur&, of the Economic (lnb, and' to deliver the in&ngur&l address to that Association. In M&dur& I g&ve public lectures in the American College and in the Msdur& College; and Mr. Saunders and other students of economics in particular seized the opportunity of forming a Msdnrs Economic Association, which some months later opened its proceedings with an inaugural address from Professor K. V. Rang&sw&mi Aiy&ng&r' of Triv&n- dram. Both the M&dnr& Economic Association and the Kumbskon&m Economic Club are endeavoring to arrange for village surveys more or less on my plan, and seyersl such surveys have been carried out in the neighbourhood of Msdur&. In the north of the Presidency Mr. A. P. P&tro o! Bethsinput joined in the work, but proceeded on a different plan. His effort ss in & given district to select what appeared to be s typical village, and in