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 796 MISCELLANEOUS

We inaugurate this University not as an educational institution but as a national one, We inaugurate it bo inculcate character and courage in students : and our fitness for Swaraj will be rated by this our success.

STUDENTS'" RESPONSIBILITIES This is nob the time for words but for deeds, and I have called upon you to contribute your quota to the national sacrifice. Now I address myself to the students. I do not regard them as mere students exempt from any responsibility. 1 regard the students who have joined this institution as examples to others and hence fulfilling the condition** of teachers to some extent. The Maha- vidyalaya is founded on them; without! them it would have been an impossibility. They share its responsibility aud unless they realise this, all the efforts of the teachers will not bear fruits expected of them, They are to fully realise when they have left their colleges and Joined this* May God pour into them the strength bo discharge their duties during this grim struggle, however long it lasts,

BIRTHPLACE OF " N, 0. O."

This strength of conviction and nob the strength in number would make this institution a success and an ideal to the rest of India, It shall be so not because of the wealth of Quzerab or its learning bub because iHs bhe birthplace of Non-Co- operation, The ground was first prepared in Guzarab and the seed sown. Id is Guzerat that baa suffered bhe birbh-pangs and ib is Guzerab that has reared up the movement. Ib is nob vanity that speaks in me. I do nob mean bo say that I am the author of all bhis. I have simply been a R'shi, a Seer, if a Bania like myself can be one I have simply given

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