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EvKNTs oF HIs LIFE. 45 He is in constant communication with them; he always listens to them, he consults them frequently. These are all immonse advantages; advantages denied to the bost of European Vicoo-Chancellors. Considerimgall things therefore we have overy reason to congratulate His Excellency the Chancellor and the Indian public on the unexcptionable nomination of a gentleman so qualified in overy respect as Mr. Justice Gooroodass Banerjee to the Vico-Chancellorship of the Calcutta University. The Indian Mirror, 25th January 1890. Mr. ( afterwards the Hon. Mr. Justice ) Lalmoham Doss wroto the following lettor. 177 Russa Road South The 19th January 1890. My dear Gooroodass Babu An attack of blood dysentery severe enough to confine me to my bed for a weck was unable to repress iny cagerness yesterday to witness a performance such as the Calcutta University has not seen since the dawn of her career. None ought to congratulate more than the Calcutta University herself upon being able after the labours of a third of a century to hold up to the world as a product of her own unaided efforts a native of India who is able to fill a place once occupied by such an illustrious person as Sir Henry Sumner Maine. May I be permitted to say that your speech yesterday, though not marked by brilliant flashes of