The statutes proposed for the establishment of two teacherships of Persian and of Indian languages and of two readerships in Indian history and Indian law / Dr. Rollerston.

  • George Rolleston
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[1877]
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    I have here put into print the substance of what I said. May 29, 1877, upon the occasion of the Promulgation in Congregation of four Sta- tutes for the establishment of certain Teacherships and Readerships in what the University Require- ments Report [p. 11, March 19, 1877, Separate pamphlet; or Gazette, April 28, 1877, p.336] calls “ Indian Subjects.” I have for the sake of brevity omitted certain merely illustrative statements, and I beg herewith to apologize to Members of Con- gregation for the length of time which these and my other remarks occupied. On the other hand, I have added here and there certain references and notes, some of which I purposely and avowedly omitted for the sake of saving time. At the end of this paper a plan is proposed which would, I think, attain by a sound what the Council has aimed at by an unsound method. George Rolleston, M.D. F.R.S. Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology) and Fellow of Merton College. Oxford, June 6, 1877. I said that—as regarded the preamble of the first of the four Statutes proposed, which ran thus, “ Whereas it is expedient that the University Teacher of Hindustani should give instruction in Persian”—I had upon a former occasion said that the University, with the “ Statement of its Requirements,” just referred to, before it, ought, before