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a good model to students in these unsettled times
when some of the vagaries of undigested modern
knowledge are not unlikely to carry young men off
their feet. His example would have served as a
light to guide those who were seeking to make their
education a straight and smooth path to nobler
manhood. He who could resign the pomp and
circumstance of office without any regret so that
he might discharge the duties of a professor of a
college and earn the higher distinction of coming
before the world as a helpful interpreter of the
Quranic message, would have been a fine example.
And as an eminent scholar of repute, he would
have been just the man to restrain, by precept and
by suggestion, the unseemly arrogance of immature
knowledge with which we are threatened on every
side. We have been witnessing so many alarming
symptoms of recalcitrance and revolt among
college students of late years that their education
may be regarded as mis-education and misguidance
pointing towards mischief.
Sir Richard Chenevix Trench
A general survey of the unsatisfactory condi-
tions that prevailed in the Dominions induced
His Exalted Highness in 1926 to adopt certain
remedial measures. One of them was to appoint a
British lent officer as Director-General of the
District Police, as had been the custom before.
And another was the placing of the Revenue
Department under the control of a British officer,
is had been the practice since the time of Mr. A. J.