he never played false with anybody; double-dealing was foreign to his nature. Great was his capacity for work. He was more than equal to every position he occupied. As Principal of the Sanskrit College he was largely instrumental in re-organising that institution during eight years of office. He earned a still higher title to our gratitude by the generous and strenuous support he gave to Bethune School. The Metropolitan Institution was a happy thought of his own, conceived and materialised at a time when the project of a first grade college entirely manned by Indian professors was generally scouted as a wild enterprise. It sprang fully armed and equipped as it were from his keen and versatile brain and was destined to certain and durable success. He loved the students committed to his care and took an unselfish interest in their progress. Though a rigid disciplinarian, he was indulgent and placable whenever possible. His impartiality was beyond suspicion. He would not examine
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