are sluggards, sneaks, and sycophants and compare them with the dog of the Panjabi proverb we really find such “criticisms” unanswerable. Again, when we find a certain resolution standing in the name of Mahamahopadhyaya H. P. Shastri for the abolition of all the Pali groups and the Professor assures us from his Himalayan retreat that the Pandit has been misrepresented by the Press, well, we find his criticism absolutely unanswerable. But the Professor never listens to the protests of the other party. We have carefully gone through his articles in the Modern Review and we find him always repeating the same charges even when his information has been deficient, and the great majority of them has been refuted, with new terms of choicest expressions of abuse and vilification. The Professor asserts that the Dacca University teachers deliver eighteen lectures per week. We have been assured by a Dacca University Professor that he told Professor Sarkar that this was not a fact. Yet the great Professor made that statement in cold print for any stick was good enough to beat the dog. We have gone through the Inspection Reports of the Patna College when it was still under the Calcutta University and we find that the Professor did not permit himself to deliver so many lectures as he now demands from the University Lecturers although some distinction should always be made between under-graduate and Post-graduate teaching.
Let us now pass on to the next point. The Modern Review complains—
“We once formally applied to the University Registrar for a regular supply of all printed University Minutes and reports, etc., in lieu of payment or as a matter of courtesy such as that extended by Government to editors in the matter of free supply of Government reports, etc. But we failed to obtain what we wanted. So while the University wants public support, it will not keep the organs of public opinion supplied with information, unless they are “friendly.” If an organ is “friendly” it will be given such information or such inspired articles as may be necessary for advocacy of the clique which runs the institution. That is why we did not get a copy of the Report of the Post-graduate Reorganization Committee in time,”
