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IN 1926 the Government of India appointed a committee with Sir William Pope as chairman to report upon the Indian Institute of Science, and one of its recommendations was that the activities of the Institute should be subject to review by a committee every five years. Early this year, Sir James Irvine was appointed chairman of the statutory quinquennial committee, and the issue of the report of this committee is awaited with interest. It is untimely, therefore, that the March issue of our Calcutta contemporary, Science and Culture, should publish a severely critical article on the present administration of the Institute. Anyone cognisant of the large volume of original work which has issued from the Institute since its foundation cannot doubt that it has more than justified the hopes of its munificent founder, the late Mr. J. N. Tata. The two main heads of the recent criticisms would appear to be (a) that the work of the Institute is too academic and (b) that, since the students are drawn very largely from South India, it is no longer an all-India research institute.
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The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Nature 138, 42 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138042a0
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