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 was told never to act without orders. So when a tiger entered the station, he promptly wired to head-quarters: "Tiger on platform; eating station-master. Kindly wire instructions." The head of a college ought to have possessed some powers, as happily he now does, to act for himself in affairs of sufficient urgency.

Further, the Court of Directors in London in the memorable education despatch of 1854, rightly called the Charter of Education in India, had expressed a desire to sanction a considerable increase of expenditure for the spread of education. Agreeably to purport of that despatch, Vidyasagar had erected several schools in the districts under him, in his capacity of Special Inspector. Mr. Young called him to account for presuming to know the intentions of the Home Government better than he himself did and ordered him not to open any more seminaries. He, however, continuing to do so, the matter was referred to Mr. Halliday, who asking him to defer