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12 The principle of election has been liberally applied. The bifurcation of the administrative function into executive and academic sections, each with a separate agency, is an improvement of great moment. The ideal of democracy is writ large on the reconstituted Senate, whereby that body becomes the meeting-place of all the interests and all the capacities necessary for the successful administration of a modern University. Even with the limitations to which they were subject under the old system, the Indian Universities have been appreciated as 'lasting monuments of glory which England has reared unto herself*, as convincing proofs that ‘England treated India as a trust from God’, and as fostering nurseries of noble influences which ‘are binding together the two lands and the numerous races with cords more powerful than the strength of armies and more enduring than the craft of statesmen’. May this University, as it grows under new conditions of increased resources and enhanced prestige, prove the wisest exponent of national life and the mightiest inspirer of humanity!