Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 3.djvu/55

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beholden to them for great services ungrudgingly rendered is to be ushered into a new day through the operation of the University Reorganisation Act? Who can say but that the illumining memories of the two brilliant lives have been set up as a double rainbow arch of hope to cheer the University in its fresh tasks?

The passing, in February last, of the Reorganisation Act just referred to, marks an epoch-making event in the history of the Madras University. As the first fruit of an administratiive reform, whereby Education has become a "transferred subject", placed under a people’s Minister, the Enactment is a welcome augury«of the generous interest which this University will, in future, receive from both the Government and the community. A teaching and residential University is the very heart of higher education; and its formal establishment , after a series of preparatory developments, furnishes just occasion for much satisfaction. Through large and wholesome improvements effected partly before, and largely after, the