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जैन प्रयाज्युएट एसोसिएशन.
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social & moral. Any one who has carefully gone through the pages of the "Herald " needs have easily noted that most of the articles never touch any religious point. They are merely on general topics pure & simple. Any earnest worker can overcontribute the Herald with such articles & save it from the unauthorised & undeserved criticism which it has provoked during the last year. No criticism can be really justified on the due weight of balancing arguments, as looking to the infancy of the magazine, a splendid series of articles has been published showing a considerable chance of progressive improvements.
This question of our duty has taken a larger part of my report, but I think I am justified in criticising the same owing to the fact that it was essentially required for the removing of a misunderstanding and also for the purpose of awakening the minds of our energetic brothers.
Another object of creating this body was to meet once a year, generally with the Conference but under peculiar circumstances at the discretion of the President with all necessary pre-arrangements and after consulting leading graduates on the subject by a general circular. This object is being served by our meeting to-day. Another object is to procure donors to the Conference which object, as far as I know, is not fulfilled by any body during the year.'
One more point to be brought to your notice is the lack of the spirit of enthusiasm among the graduates. It was resolved at the first meeting of this Association that all the graduates should send in their reports to the Secretary at least one month before the date of meeting. I regret to note that not a single report has been received by me though due notice for the same was given in the Herald. The reason for this total absence may be twofold. Some of our members may have done very little worth giving out in a report & others may be keeping back their reports either through idleness, or carelessness or to save themselves from the bare results of , self-illumination. Whatever may be the reason hereof, by experience wefind that this system of asking for individual reports has been found to be unworkable and hence with your approval we should make a change in this system & be only satisfied with recommending the means to an end & not insisting upon any reports in future. It is of course apparent on the face of the thing that absence of forwarding reports does not mean absence of any work in the desired directions.
Including as we do District pleaders and High Court pleaders amongst us our number now comes to 96. This "number without District and High Court pleaders falls back upon 79. This year three of our brethren have been graduated in Law. They are Mr.. Makanji Jutha of Bombay who is to be congratulated for securing the first class, Mr.
