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FEW countries are, in proportion to their literate population, so well equipped with modern laboratories as India. The reproach can no longer be levelled at Indian university education that it is purely literary. We need only cite as examples the fine laboratories to be found at the University College of Science, Calcutta, the Presidency College, Madras, and the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay. From the time of its foundation in 1911, the Hindu University at Benares has paid particular attention to the teaching of science, both pure and applied. The science departments with a staff of seventy provide accommodation for about one thousand students, and these departments have now been constituted a separate College of Science within the University. This College, of which Prof. K. K. Mathur has been appointed the first Principal, was formally opened on September 12 by the veteran Vice-Chancellor and founder of the University, Pandit M. M. Malaviya. In his opening address, the Vice-Chancellor emphasised the need in the present economic position of India for increased facilities for the study of science in all its branches. The Hindu University has already played a prominent part in the industrial development of the United Provinces, and we are sure that the foresight of the Vice-Chancellor and executive body of the University in establishing this new college will lead to an expansion of its activities.
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The College of Science, Benares Hindu University. Nature 136, 674–675 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136674c0
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