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પરિશિષ્ટ ૨ GUJARAT VERNACULAR SOCIETY'S
OFFICE,
AHMEDABAD, 8th August 1888. Po, TUE UNIVERSITY REGISTRAR,
BOMBAY.
Sir,
I am directed by the Managing Committee of the Gujarat Vernacular Society to place before the Senate the following recommendation in connection with the Vernaculars of the Presidency.
The Managing Committee has observed with regret that the progress of cultivation and enrichment of the Gujarati language has not been of late keeping pace with the spread of English Education. It is beyond all question that the regeneration of the population of India must be ultimately through the Vernaculars and so far as the masses of the people are concerned the cultivation of the knowledge the English Language is to be valued mainly as a means towards that end. The present University curriculum has the effect of drawing off the attention of young men from vernaculars even before they complete their school course. In early times the best and ripest scholars used to aim at making accessible the knowledge contained in English Literature to the students of Vernaculars. It has been observed that latterly the work of writer
