The printed Minutes and Reports of the University are available in the market but our friend wanted that the Minutes of the Syndicate should be supplied to him every week before the Senate had considered the decisions of the Syndicate. Whether such a request was reasonable, let the impartial public judge. But we emphatically deny that friendly organs get such reports early. The first paper to publish the Report of the Post-Graduate Re-organisation Committee was the Statesman which can hardly be regarded as a friendly organ. How the Statesman got it we do not know. The Registrar said in the Senate that his office did not supply the Report. Naturally, the Reporters who come to attend the Senate meetings get such printed papers earlier than those to whom they are sent by post but all Reports are considered confidential until they are accepted or modified by the Senate and the Modern Review knows best how it had access to our confidential papers in the past.
The Modern Review finds fault with the last year’s budget because the estimated expenditure. fell short of and the estimated income exceeded the actual expenditure and income. No budget can be absolutely accurate. We are unable to see how the Government grant could be anticipated particularly when the Modern Review and Professor Sarkar had been strenuously opposing it. Nor could the framers of the budget anticipate the favourable results of the abolition of the Sole Agency of University Publications. The budget is framed by a Board of which the Accountant-General is a member. We do not know whether he is “a competent and reliable financial expert” but the Regulations, as they stand at present, do not permit the appointment of outsiders on the Board of Accounts.
Why the Calcutta Review (“in its present vulgar edition”) has been an eye-sore to our contemporary, we are unable to guess. Our readers will judge whether it has made “the publication of serial stories and other kinds of light literature and commonplace
