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Col. Ferris, Your Highness, Mrs. Ferris, Chiefs, Sirdars, Ladies and Gentlemen.
more reasons than one.
I have great pleasure in addressing you on this occasion for You are aware that the chief function of this morning is to ask you, Col. Ferris, to unveil the little piece of canvas that will in this hall represent the likeness of one of the greatest benefactors of this institution. This tribute of our deep respect and sincere gratitude to His Highness Shri Shahu Chhatrapati Maharaja, though yielding to none of the grandest monuments raised by admiration and love in the depth and sincerity of feeling on which it is based, is nevertheless in inverse proportion to the feelings it paints in point of its physical magnitude, for which we may blame our own scantiness of means. Yet I feel confident that in this matter you will allow our claim to those inward and intrinsic graces of heart and feeling association of which give peculiar charms to even the most trifling thing in the world. All this is too evident to need an explanation so far as the humble workers in the interests of this institution are concerned, and had it all been for them alone, I could have spared you, Ladies and Gentlemen, the trouble of permitting me to make a few more observations. As it is, however, I have to take account of the state of things that surround us and briefly tell you why we chose this as the most opportune moment to testify to the feeling of gratitude to H. H. the Maharajasaheb which we all so devotedly entertain.
As you fully know, ours is an institution of only yesterday and we have necessarily very limited resources to present to the the minds of youths of this institution(and these, properly equipped will go to form the very hope of our community,) those elevating circumstances that appeal to the higher imagination of men
| SR No. | 542510 |
| Book Title | Jain Gazette 1905 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publisher | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publication Year | 1905 |
| Total Pages | 28 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |