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 Arnold was to Rugby," wrote one long afterwards (in 1918) as a retrospect of those days.

The next removal from Moslem to Andhra environment was like the return of the exile to home-land. To the educational—teaching and organising—work done at Cocanada as Principal of Pittapur Rajah’s College for nearly a decade and a half from February 1905 down to July 1919, enough testimony has been borne at different stages and from diverse quarters. The most fruitful, as also the longest, term of headship in the annals of the College commenced with the express aspiration (as per a letter, dated October 2, 1904) to realise its ends as "Primarily a ‘national’ institution intended and calculated to be of some tangible use and help in moulding the India that is into the India that is to be—the ‘promised land,' as Ranade puts it, in which are to be worked out and realised the world’s desire and hope of union and harmony." "Exaggerated apprehensions and groundless allegations" as to aggressive socio-religious hostility took little time to melt away; and the confirmation