The Modern Review/Volume 29/Number 4/“Post-Graduate Teaching in the Calcutta University, 1919-20,”

“Post-Graduate Teaching in the Calcutta University, 1919-20,”

When men hold salaried appointments, we do not think it is discreditable for them to prefer posts carrying higher salaries to posts carrying lower salaries. At the same time, we think it is creditable for men to voluntarily choose to work for a mere subsistence allowance, for love of the work, as the professors of the Poona Fergusson College do. A vow of poverty should be voluntary. It should not be either prescribed or enforced.

But in the Annual Report of the post-graduate departments of the Calcutta University, the president Sir Asutosh Mookerjee sneers at two former University teachers, Mr A. K. Chanda and Pandit Surendra Nath Majumdar Shastri, for having “found the allurements of Government service so bewitching,” and later on speaks of them as deserters. May we ask the legal luminary who uses this lan- Page:Modern review 1921 v29.pdf/572 Page:Modern review 1921 v29.pdf/573 Page:Modern review 1921 v29.pdf/574