পাতা:Reminiscences Speeches And Writings Of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee Reminiscences pt. 1.pdf/৩১৪

TRIBUTEs To IIs MEMORY. 293 for the fluency and the style which he employed, and which I have always admired. In the truest sense of the word he was a perfect gentleman and I think we may well apply to him the words of Shakespeare; “tho kindest man, the best conditioned and unwearied spirit of courtesics.” He held a position which was perhaps unique in the society of Bengal, and his place will be very hard to fill. It only remains for Inc once more to express on behalf of my learned brethren and myself our very great regret at his death and to ask you to convey to the members of his family our sincere condolence with them in their bereavement. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA. Extract from the address of His Excellency the Chancellor Lord chelmsford at the convocation held on the 16th December 1918 Among the great men eminent in yotar records is one who has passed away during the last few days and whose loss casts a gloom over our procecidings. The memory of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee, thc first Indian to be sclected as your Vice-Chancellor, will long be cherished among you. His image will rise to your minds as that of one who, even in extreme old age, retained a buoyancy of demeanour, an alertness of intellect, which one looks to find among men cntering on the prime of life. More than that, he was a living refutation of the view that Western lore is incompatible with Eastern simplicity and manners. He had drunk deeply at the wells of Western thought and science. Yet he held firmly to all that is best in the civilisation wherein he was born. He has left