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 devotion with which you have discharged the stewardship so judiciously and confidingly committed to your charge.” Again, “During this happy interval, it has been the good fortune of the Staff and all connected with the interests of the College to see its affairs placed on a permanent footing and to find in the highly-honoured Rajah (now Maharajah) Garu of Pittapuram a patron and rock of support”. Likewise did the Students, in their valedictoiy words on the eve of the final retirement, “ proudly rejoice to feel that your name will for long years be venerated by the Andhra student as identical with genius and erudition, sympathy and charity, purity and self-consecration.” Visitors of eminence like Provincial Governors and Executive Councillors as well as the official University Commissioners came from time to time to convey the same commendation and carry the same conviction. Among the administrative improvements of a far-reaching character were : the reconstitution of the Management, the free admission of girls and of members