8 MAHARAJA SRI SIR BIRAMITRODAYA SING DEO, DHARMANIDHI, LECTURESHIP. Maharaja Sri Sir Biramitrodaya Sing Deo, Dharmanidhi, K.C.I.E., Feudatory Chief, Sonepur State, Orissa, offered to pay Rs. 150 per month for a period of 3 years commencing with the 1st day of June, 1920, for maintaining a Chair for the lectureship on the Oriya language. The Senate at its meeting held on the 24th April, 1920, accepted the gift with thanks. The amount has been paid by the Maharaja for a period of five years commencing from the 1st June, 1920. MAHARAJA SRI SIR BIRAMITRODAYA SING DEO, K.C.I.E., RULING CHIEF (SONEPUR ESTATE), CHAIR IN ORIYA. Early in 1925, Maharaja Sri Sir Biramitrodaya Sing Deo, Dharmanidhi, K.C.I.E., Ruling Chief, Sonepur, offered to place at the disposal of the University, in memory of the late Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, a sum of Rs. 33 000, to be invested in 3 per cent. G. P. Notes for the creation of an Endowment for the institution of a Lectureship in the University, on a monthly salary of Rs. 150. The Lectureship is to be named Maharaja Sri Sir Biramitrodaya Sing Deo, K.C.I.E., Ruling Chief, Sonepur Estate (Orissa), Chair in Oriya. The offer was thankfully accepted by the Syndicate on the 6th February, 1925. VI READERSHIPS. (A) University Readerships. Chapter X of the University Regulations enjoins the provision of special Courses of lectures on particular subjects, mainly intended for the benefit of graduates engaged in research work or of those who wish to prosecute special studies. The lecturers delivering such courses of lectures are called University Readers. 1913 Professor Ph.D., F.B.A. Paul Vinogradoff, Kinship in Early Law. Rai Saheb Dineschandra Sen, B.A. Professor Sylvain Levi Vaishnab Literature of Mediæval Bengal. The World around India; India's Intercourse in ancient times with her neighbours Greece, Persia, Central Asia, China, Tibet and IndoChina. 1914 J. N. Das Gupta, Esq., B.A. India in the Seventeenth Century as (Oxon.) *Professor Herbert Hall Turner, D.Sc., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. depicted by European travellers and foreign observers. Pure Mathematics. *Professor Earnest William Brown, Applied Mathematics. M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, Chemistry. Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. (B) Asutosh Readership In the year 1925, the Governing Body of the University Law College, decided to set apart from the College fund, a sum of Rs. 20,000 for the purpose of creating an endowment for the establishment of a Readership in the University, called the Asutosh Readership," to perpetuate the memory of the late Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, Kt., C.S.I. 44 The following scheme governing the appointment of Readers, recommended by the Governing Body of the College, was accepted by the Senate on the 25th July, 1925. 1. The Governing Body of the University Law College shall, on or before the 31st day of August in each year, select a Lecturer for the ensuing year and the subject for the Lectureship. 2. The Lecturer so appointed shall, during the months of January, February and March or in one or other of such months in the year next ensuing after his selection, deliver a course of lectures in the subject so selected. The course to consist of not less than three and not more than 12 lectures. 3. The lectures shall be delivered in the University Buildings. 4. That the sum of Rs. 20,000 set apart shall be vested in trustees, namely, the Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University and the Principal of the College for the time being. 5. The lectures delivered shall be printed and published on the recommendation of the Governing Body at the cost of the University. 6. The honorarium payable to the Lecturer shall be the income for one year of the investment of the said sum of Rs. 20,000. 7. The names of the Lecturers and their subjects shall be published in the University Calendar. 8. The first course of lectures shall be delivered in January, February and March of 1926 or in one or other of these months. VII UNIVERSITY EXTENSION LECTURES. A series of lectures has been organised by the University known as University Extension Lectures. Eminent Scholars are invited to take part in the scheme by delivering a course of lectures on special subjects. These lectures are intended for advanced students of Colleges and members of the outside public interested in education and culture, so as to create among them desire for original investigation or research. Emergency Legislation. The Romantic and the Classical Poetry Cities and Town planning. Pursuit of Chemistry in Bengal. (1) Carlyle: a study. (2) New Tendencies of thought in Europe and America. Athens in the days of Plato. Series of lectures on the Downfall of the Pal Kingdom of Bengal. (1) A mid-Eighteenth Century Bengali Manuscript. (2) A legendary history of Alexander the Great. Constructive Ideals of Education. Dr. C. A. Bentley, M.B., Bengal Malaria. D.P.H., D.T.M.H. Mr. R. S. Knox, M.A. Mr. J. C. Coyajee, B.A., LL.B. Mr. Herambachandra Maitra, Dr. H. Stephen, M.A., D.D., 1917 Dr. H. Stephen, M.A., D.D., Mr. J. N. Das Gupta, B.A. Dr. D. N. Mallik, B.A., Sc.D., Mr. The Teaching of John Ruskin. A Legendary History of Alexander the Solar System of Ancient and Modern J. C. Coyajee, B.A., An Indian Kameralist. LL.B. |