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native nobility and gentry of Lahore and Umritsnr. It was sought 

 to be shown that Sir Donald McLeod had said something conceived 

 in a spirit of hostility to the use, under any circumstances, of Western 

 scientific terms in oriental translations ; but he had read his reply very 

 carefully, and nowhere could he find any grounds whatever for such an 

 assumption. What the Lieut. -Governor does say is, that he would prefer 

 to see the promoters of the Lahore College adhere to oriental models 

 " in the scientific technology they may adopt, rather than unneces- 

 sarily import terms from European lands." And he would draw special 

 attention to the word unnecessarily ', the force of which seems to have 

 been entirely overlooked, or the sense of the passage misunderstood. 

 But it appeared to him, that if the Lieut.-Governor's impression 

 was to be interpreted in the sense, words in the English language 

 ordinarily bore, what he had said, had very nearly if not quite the 

 same meaning as the last amendment to the Hon'ble mover's motion ; 

 and having been in communication with His Honor, since notice of this 

 motion was given, he was not at all prepared to say that, were he here 

 present, he would offer any very strenuous opposition to it. Such being 

 the case then, it seemed strange to him to propose a resolution evidently 

 intended to express dissent from a particular view, which was almost iden- 

 tical in substance, if not in the terms of its expression, with the resolution 

 brought forward to condemn it. It must be borne in mind that Sir D. 

 IMcLeod was addressing a body of gentlemen whose special object was to 

 found an Oriental College, in which the subjects mainly studied will be 

 the classical languages of India; and though the Lieut- Governor himself 

 is opposed to anything like exclusivencss, and desires " to disseminate 

 as far as possible the knowledge supplied by all lands," yet no doubt 

 the wish and intention of the founders is to revive the knowledge 

 of their own ancient classics, which has almost disappeared. Possibly 

 very little science may be studied in this College at all, which, it may 

 be the intention, should bear the same relation to Government Colleges, 

 as a very few years ago Oxford did to Cambridge, when an Oxford 

 student's knowledge of any branch of science might have been set 

 down as nil. It had been said of the students of Oxford, that though 

 ignorant of science, there was an odour of Plato and rose-water about 

 them, and possibly that is the style of thing our friends of Lahore 

 prefer to chemistry, botany, and other studies which bristle with 

 technical terms. 



