Jain Gazette 1920 06

SR No.: 542650
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagnanderlal Jaini, Ajit Prasada, C S Mallinath Jain
Publisher: Jaina Gazette Office
Publication Year: 1920
Total Pages: 36
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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THE JAINA GAZETTE.
The Presidential Address.*
BY Champat Rai Jain, Bar-at-Law. | ALA Jagi Mal Ji, Members of the Managing Committee of the
Jaina High School Paharee Dhiraj, Ladies and Gentlemen.
First of all let me thank you for your honouring me by asking me to preside on this occasion over this pleasant and auspicious function of the anniversary and prize-distribution of this great educational institution of the Jains of the Imperial Province of Delhi. Believe me I am all the more conscious of the great honour conferred upon me because your choice could have fallen on worthier men much nearer home than Hardoi in Oudh whence you have bid me come.
Next let me congratulate those deserving students of this School who have been awarded prizes of books and other things to-day. Their efforts have borne fruit and they are entitled to rejoice. Those who have striven hard and yet failed to secure a prize will probably have their consolation in the opportunity they have for competing for the same next year, but they should realise that more strenuous effort is needed to carry away the palm. To those who have failed to obtain the pass marks in their examination I have this piece of advice to offer that they should not allow their failure to produce a spirit of dejection or depression in their souls, but removing the obstacles that stood in their way apply themselves with renewed vigour and determination to attain the goal in view. There is none absolutely stupid by nature, so that the most backward boy has only his own laziness and mental distractions to get over to succeed in his examination.
I think the staff also have to be congratulated on the excellent results which are evident from the percentage of success. Their good work is evident all round, and it is to their credit that this
*delivered on the occasion of the Prize distribution of the Jaina Anglo-Sanskrit High-School Delhi, on 11th and 12th April 1920.