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 clamant need of the land. The study of science enlists zeal only when it is directed to a practical end. Material prosperity and social harmony stand guaranteed to that nation alone which vigorously promotes the intellectual development of its industrial population. At the present time there exists an estrangement between ‘learning’ and ‘business’-Inestimable as have been the benefits of a liberal modem education, the best influences of the University have, however, been mostly confined to particular classes or communities. A feeling of ‘academic untouchability’ has been generated. For example, it has taken us some decades to realise the relation subsisting between the processes of irrigation and the fields to be irrigated—between Engineering and Agriculture. Similar limitations have tended to make the system lop-sided. A link of sympathy should be established between men trained in intellectual aptitudes and men trained in industrial skill. The University should steadily widen the orbit of her activities so as to stimulate technical training of a high order. Thus alone can a University