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 best to make the school a success. At the outset he had to spend some money of his own; but under his able management it soon became self-supporting. The University results were also brilliant. In January 1872 Vidyasagar again formed a managing committee with himself, Dwarka Nath Mitter and Kristo Das Pal as members. The institution was affiliated to the Calcutta University up to the First Arts Examination in the same year, though not without great difficulty and bitter opposition. It was the first private enterprise of the kind and people harboured doubts whether a college entirely managed by Indian professors could impart higher education efficiently. The guardians of the boys perpetually vexed Vidyasagar with numberless questions. Losing all patience he told the students point-blank that they might all leave the college if they so desired. When they with one voice declared that they were best where they were, he assured them that he would go all lengths to make the college