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H. W. LYONS that in after life ?hey ?ill devote their fine energies to the bettering of country ? Are we the economic conditions of their inspiring these young men, ?ho by reason of their education will be leaders in India, with high ideals, with an intelligent yearning for the development of their country along sound lines; and with the conviction that the development rests upon them ? responsibility for that Yet surely that is the work of a university, and a work that is of fundamental importance in India of to-day! Or let us look at our standpoint. What place does ment in our several Artz and profe5sors, surrounding it ? hold in During problem from another the economics depart- Colleges, with its students the life o! the people the Diwali ?vacation this yesr I spent a fortnight in a d?k bungalow at the top of the ghats which lead to the Malwa plateau. Never before was I so profoundly impressed by the neeAs o! the villagers. The at its height, was epidemic of. influenza which we? raging through the villages sur- rounding us. of about a thousand, to the funeral pyres From the largest one, with a population five o? six bodies were taken every day. Our nights were broken by the terrible coughing in the gwala village just below us. We did own small medicine case, we secured from Indore. to what we could with out and later with medicines Our biggest problem w? induce our patients to take the rest so essential the successful corn batting of the disease. Our water carrier gave the reason, when he was still weak from the fever and the racking o! the cough. We had told him not to work for a day or two more. "My belly is empty, yet you say rest, rest." And he and others like him either died or went staggering on with their work, for they were sick and hungry, and there was.no one to heal them or give them