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One can not find words in any known language sufficiently hard to pay back this Satan amongst Christians in his own coin. It can only be answered in the way that the Bangabasi has suggested—by the students who are at present prosecuting their studies in the General Assembly’s Institution withdrawing themselves from it and getting admitted into some other Schools and colleges—such as the Metropolitan, the City, or the Oriental Seminary in Chitpore Road. Let the educational Institution, which still retains on its staff such a vile-tongued fool as Mr. Hastie, have to close its doors for want of students. Let the students also take note and make a firm resolution—if they have one iota of respect for the sacred honor of their mothers—instantly to get out of any institution where Mr. Hastie gets in. Let the audacious man who calls us “shrinking cowards” feel that there are bounds beyond which our natural politeness, which he mistakes for cowardice, must not be taxed—that we have manliness enough to retaliate the insult of a filthy being whom the honored missionaries of India are not ashamed to call a member of their brotherhood. It must not also be forgotten that no amount of apology can cover an insult of the kind, and we earnestly hope that we have not spoken all this to mere stones.

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{{Style S-Small capitals|What,}} by the way, are our worthy friends—the socalled patriots, leaders and public men—of Bengal doing? Are not such words as Mr. Hastie has used with reference to their birth and nationality sufficient for a public cause to make? Is it not patriotic to be avenged for the blackest slur that has ever been cast upon the character of their race? Leaders of the society as they would like to be called, is not this worst insult to the whole Hindu Society to which they belong provoking enough for them to lead their constituents to adopt a measure that is calculated to uphold their mothers’ honor? Have their speechifying tongues lost all powers of articulation for thundering in public halls—just to warn their young friends that to continue studies in an institution presided over by such an abomination of the missionary society is to accept the foulest calumny laid at {{Style S-Lost|…}}<ref name="editor-120-paste-gap">The upper pasted fragment ends with “laid at”; the lower one begins with “and doing”. The intervening text is missing from the clipping.</ref> and doing to make good the time that they have been sleeping over, but if the latter, there is, alas, no hope for the country, and the vile calumniator of the Hindu’s world-acknowledged fair honor will chuckle with triumph!

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An English gentleman, who knew the late Mr. Dadoba Pandurang well, thus writes from England. We need scarcely say that the suggestion at the end of the note has our hearty sympathy:—

The notices referring to the career of your worthy citizen Dadoba Pandurang, Rao Bahadur, which appeared in your journal and in all other Bombay papers, have been read here with much interest by those of us who knew him. He was full of years; so that the chief regret is that the later period of his life was clouded by rather more than his share of the “losses and crosses” that are the common lot. But, as I well remember, he was much cheered by that renewed recognition of his proper worth implied in the appointment as Mahratta Translator, a wise mark of favour that I believe he owed to Sir James Fergusson’s Government after being too long treated to the cold shoulder of your local official world. Though Mr. Dadoba had not enjoyed the advantages of the modern collegiate system, he was thoroughly grounded in what acquirements he had attained under the old system, and in, this respect his example might be worth studying by some of your matriculated youths before they go up to the “Previous” examination. In the broader sense of his sterling qualities, consistent and honourable as a public servant or citizen, Mr. Dadoba’s name is well worthy of being perpetuated. Perhaps one of the best ways of doing that would be by means of prizes or moderate scholarships in connection with “sound vernacular education.

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