পাতা:Reminiscences Speeches And Writings Of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee Reminiscences pt. 1.pdf/২১৪

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Evenirs OF HIs LIFE. 197 secured a scholarship in the Matriculation. He entered the Presidency College and had a very distinguished University career. He practised for some time at Berhampore whore he was a Law Lecturer in the local College. But in 1872 he came to Calcutta and joined the High Court. He took his degree of Doctor of Law five years later, and in the following year delivered the Tagore Law Lectures on the Hindu Law of Marriage and Stridhana. In 1879 he was appointed Fellow of the University of Calcutta; and in 1887 he was nominated to the Bengal Legislative Council. In 1888 he was raised to the Bench at the age of 44; and in 1902 he was appointed a member of the Universities' Commission. He has borne throughout his whole career a high character for capacity, devotion to duty, and uprightness. He has retired from the Bench after fifteen years' tenure of office, while he has still a great deal of vigour, which, we may confidently expect that he will use in advancing the best interests of his fellow countrymen. He is not going to be an idle man. I have just been reading the work on Education which he has recently published. It is a pledge of the efforts he is still to make to advance the best interests of youth. I have never had occasion to appear before Sir Gooroodass Banerjee either in a criminal or a civil case, but his reputation as a Judge is known to us all. My acquaintance with him arose from the deep interest he has taken in the student life of Calcutta. I think that it was in connection with the Calcutta University Institute that I first met him. I know the deep interest