পাতা:সাহিত্য-সাধক-চরিতমালা দ্বিতীয় খণ্ড.djvu/৩৮২

ुक्त्रं । ** পারি কৃষ্ণমোহন বন্ধ্যোপাধ্যায় এই ৰে ऋक्षाॉशमी कड्रिहउन । তিনি পরবর্তী কালে একখানি পত্রে বিশপস কলেজে মধুসূদনের ছাত্রজীবন সম্বন্ধে বাহা লিখিয়াছিলেন, নিয়ে তাহ উদ্ধৃত করিতেছি – I do not remember the exact date of his entry into Bishop's College. I fancy it was in the course of the year 1848...He entered as a ‘lay-student' and the college charges were paid by his father, about Rs. 60/- per month. Symptoms of Datta's poetical talent had appeared while he was a student of the Hindoo College. He was fond of writing English verses and at his baptism was sung by the congregation to the music of the Church organ an English hymn composed by himself for the occasion. But he never wrote anything at that time in Bengali which he affected to hold in utter contempt as a ‘patois'. He was a person of great intellectual power-somewhat flighty in his imagination, strong in his opinions and sentiments, of an independent mind and very tenaclous of personal rights. This brought him into a momentary collision with the authorities of Bishop's College about his ‘dress'. The ecclesiastical authorities had an idea at the time that natives of India should not be encouraged to imitate the English dress—the tail coat and the beaver hat. It would have been infinitely better if they had not interfered with questions beyond their province-for it was this interference which goaded a fiery spirit like Datta's into an obstinate resistance. The collegiate costume was a black oassock and band and the square cap. There was nothing in these things that was peculiarly , English. The authorities wished him to put on a white cassock instead of black, Datta said "either the collegiate costume or his own national dress.' The former not being allowed Datta appeared in the latter-which was a whitesiikkaba with a coloured turban like the pleader's headpiece and shawl roomal worked all over. This looked too much like a langy dress to be held as suitable for a student of Bishry's College, I did not "intervene’