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This is not the first occasion on which it has been given to me to speak in this hall of many and hallowed memories, dear to me for over twenty years, since I entered it as a student in search of admission to a university course. It, is however, the first time when i have the pleasure of doing so in the character of the first lecture of the University on a foundation which owes its being to the enlightened munificence and burning zeal for the advancement of India history, science and culture, which characterized the eminent Indian, now no more, whose glorious career, so full of dazzling promise and of brilliant and many-sided achievement, was over even before the first of what he would assuredly have deemed his series of further benefactions to his University had time to materialize and to take shape.