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 significance of a dispensation of Providence. The University is indebted to the Rev. Dr. William Miller for work which, estimated by the period over which it extended, by the directions in which it ramified, by the ends which it sought to achieve, by the results which it helped to realise, will, I feel assured, be universally acknowledged as the richest contribution made by any single person to the growing usefulness of our Alma Mater. With all the might of keen fore-sight, broad sympathy and wide experience, he strove to enlarge the influence of this University upon its Affiliated Colleges so as to augment their usefulness as centres of liberal education. It were far from easy to calculate in terms of ordinary computations the full value of the monumental work he could achieve as the presiding genius of that splendid Institution whose history, during nearly two generations, may be interpreted as his own concretised autobiography. But one fact is clear : with the cordial co-operation of devoted co- workers, who always accepted him as their guide and pattern, he replenished the entire South Indian community with the rich asset