has been carried out with such economy as is consistent with efficiency. We have to realise that higher teaching and research need money, favourable surroundings and an intimate association among scholars, and these factors should not be neglected in any discussion of this nature.
Prof. Sarkar has spoken out bluntly that “the graduates of the Calcutta University are showing very poor results in the I. C. S., I. P. S., and Finance Examinations......where they are not examined by their own post-graduate lecturers but by an independent board.” In the first place the Calcutta University is not a workshop for manufacturing I. C. S., or I.P.S. people and no University worthy of its name should care to regulate its syllabuses or courses of study to prepare candidates for the Service Examinations. The distinguished member of the Indian Educational Service infected, no doubt, with the usual bureaucratic mentality, considers that success in the Indian Civil Service Examination is the highest ideal as also the measure of University education in India. But it is only recently that Sir Geoffrey Butler, who represents the University of Cambridge in the House of Commons, has described the British Universities after the use to which they have been put by Indian ex-Governors, as so many Keddhas where
“a stout old tusker in the shape of the Secretary of State, and gentle female elephants in the shape of certain ex-Governors and other officials, charged with prodding or alluring the young elephants to a corner where Sir Stanley Leaths, waving a torch and beating a tom-tom, has instructed the Civil Service Commission to lasso the bemused creatures.”
In India, on the other hand, we think that Universities cannot prove their usefulness better than in the success of their students in the Service Examinations! Secondly, and this is now the more important part of the matter, Prof. Sarkar’s insinuation is entirely baseless and mischievous. The I. C. S. Examination has been instituted in India since 1922. During the last 4 years there have been altogether 28 appointments from India as the result of open competitive
