Principal Khosla on Student Life.

THE lucid and thoughtful speech which Principal Ram Prasad Khosla delivered at the opening of the Sanatan Dharma College, Lahore was in every way worthy of the occasion. Admirable in tone and matter alike, it dealt with important problems of student life, which are receiving careful consideration at the hands of all interested in education, in a way that was quite unexceptionable. The speech furnishes aburdant food for thought. Principal Khosla knows that the great task for an educational institution at the present day is neither the scattering of ancient ideals to the wind, nor a slavish acceptance of the west, but a hurmonising of the ancient ideals of the East with Western thought. That is the right sprit. The outer skin of institution might be altered to suit the changing conditions, without doing violence to the time honoured ideals, and we should cling to the vital part of institutions and not their external form, He exhortated the students not to ignore the conditions of human life and human experience-the actualities of life and have their judgments on facts. 

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