In memoriam

YET another year has been added to the ever-increasing distance that divides us from the bodily existence of our illustrious founder, Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia. This day, 27 years ago, the earthly career of this great and famous scion of the noble house of Majithia came to a close after having covered multifarious fields of eminently useful public activity which ensured to him for all time a conspicuous place among the benefactors of the country. Although his body was snatched away from our midst, his high spirit continues to live visibly among us in and through the several beneficent institutions founded by him for the instruction and enlightenment of his fellow countrymen in all stages of intellectual development. Having received in a full measure the benefits of culture and enlightenment himself, he saw with perspicacity, characteristic of a seer, that to bring about an all-round development of his fellowmen in Punjab and elsewhere, the first essential thing was to dispel the darkness of ignorance and superstition by means of a comprehensive programme of education. And the Dyal Singh School and College, the Dyal Singh Library and The Tribune are standing monuments to the single-mindedness and zeal with which he addressed himself to this task. Each generation that goes out of the school and the college swells the number of those that are directly indebted to the munificence of Sardar Dyal Singh for all that they are. The Tribune, founded in 1881, has for 44 years sought to serve the people in all those fields of public activity that were dearest to the heart of its founder.