Re-establishment of self-government

Abstract

I FEEL it an honour and a pleasure to have been asked by your Society to deliver this inaugural address after that the Rules of the Society have been definitively approved by the General Council of the University. It is an honour because the objects the Society has in mind, as stated in the rules themselves, are of raising the standard of University Students and to place them in a position ready to prepare themselves befittingly for the hard struggle of life after that they shall have finished their university career. It is a pleasure, because it reminds me of the good old days when I was a University student and this gathering recalls to my mind the ancieties of school life to which, once they are over, I look with satisfaction. Indeed, University life represents the happy periods of one's life, when one does not realize the heavy responsibilities of office and of manhood in general.