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 point of honor from year to year to make a pilgrimage to Kangri and willingly give their mite for maintaining huge crowd gathers and the manner in which it is handled, housed and fed evinces no mean power of organisation. But the most wonderful thing about it all is that the crowd consisting of about ten thousand men, women and children, is managed without the assistance pf a single policeman and without any fuss or semblance of forcej the only force that subsists between the crowd and the managers of the institution is that of love and mutual esteem. Fourteen years are nothing in the life of a big institution like this. What the collegiates who have been just turned out during the last two or three years will be able to show, remains to be seen. The public will not and cannot judge men or institutions except through the results that they show. It makes no allowance for failures It is a most exacting judge. The final appeal of the Gurukula as of all popular institu- tions must be to this judge Great responsibility there- fore rests upon the shoulders of the students who have been discharged from the College and who have entered upon the thorny path of life. Let them beware. Mean- while those who are wsllwishers of this #reat experi- ment may derive satisfaction from the fact that we have it as an indisputable rule of life, that as the tree is so will the fruit be, The tree looks lovely enough. He who waters it is a noble soul. Why worry about what the fruit is likely to be V

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

As a lover of the Gurukula, I may be permitted to offer one or two suggestions to the committe and the parents. The Gurukula boys need a thorough industrial

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