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end of the staircas
At the top there is a large platform, nearly 200 feet square, in the middle of which stands a peristyle hall with great corridors on each side.
BENGAL The Prince of Wales, addressing. members of the City of London
Calcutta. Important arehacolo Vacation Course in Education, atgical discoveries have been made the Guildhall, gave them as near the small village of Paharpur These corridors surrounded the motto, "Bear forward the torch of in Bengal, where a temple has been main shrine, and are in the form knowledge."
found which is of an entirely new of a Maltese Cross. Inside the A gathering of schoolmasters type to Indian archaeology. In great peristyle hall, on the north, and schoolmistresses, he said, is 1879 General Sir Alexander Cun-four massive stone pillars support- probably the last audience to ningham identified the remains used the roof. The side walls of which a layman, having a lively those of a large Brahmaufeal tom-the corridors are still intnet up to memory of his childhood, will care ple, but the first scientific explora- a height of 20 feet from the plinth to speak with authority. tion of the site was begun four of the peristyle hall. (Laughter.) Nevertheless, I am years ago, when the south-westerfi While clearing this structure,the very happy to have this opportu- corner was partially excavated excavator discovered two inscribed nity of meeting touchers who have, Operations wore resumed in De-stone pillars, one of which was come from all parts of the British cember last under the direction of dedicated in the fifth year of the Isles, and from the wide-spread Mr.R. D. Banerji, Superintendent reign of Pratihara, Emperor Ma- lands of Britain overseas. Especi- of the Archaeological Survey of hendrapala I. of Kanauj, who bu ally do I wish to welcome the re- India, Eastern Circle, and have gan to reign circa 890 A.D. presentatives who have come from now led to the valuable disco sides of the corridors also bear other countries-from America.
two long dados like those on the Italy, Iraq, Holland, Swedon, Den- "Originally the temple consisted plinth or the lower terrace, and mark, Germany, Turkey, and Egypt of a large quadrangle, surrounded the terra-cotta plaques of this to attend thia City of London by high anclousure walls lined on dido are much earlier in date than Vacation Course in Education. the Inside with extensive monastic those along the plinth. May 'I wish them a pleasant stay buildings. There were large gates among us and that they will gather in the middle of each of the four enduring impressions of friend-sides of the surrounding wall, and ship and good will.
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veries.
Beautiful Plaques.
The
Evidence of Rebuilding.
Many of the terra-cotta plaques the principal entrance was pre-are missing in the upper dados; sumably the one which faces and the gaps were filled up at a north.
Inter data with ordinary bricks.. In some cases, the old pinques were turned upside down to fill up The main temple, which was (some of these cavities. It up- built entirely of brick, occupied the pears, therefore, that the original quadrangle, where a lofty mound, temple at Paharpur was built some more than 70 feet in height, time in the Seventh or the Eighth' remained, while spaces between it Century AD. but that it was ex- and the surrounding wall were probably occupied by tanks and buildings, very little of which have survived to the present day.
My life and work do not leave me much time for light reading. and one might not necessarily choose for that purpose the Blue Books issued by the Government. Departments. (Laughter.) But I have been greatly interested in studying the contents of a "work which is popularly known among you as the Code. From this off clal guide I learn that the purpose of education is to fit the boys and girls in our schools, practically "as well as intellectually, for the work of life." Fitness for the work of
Mr. Banerji's excavations during life, as I understand the term, in-the last spell of cold weather were cludes more than the power to restricted to the nothern portion of the central mound, and the north earn a livelihood.
ern gateway to the quadrangle.
(Hear, hear.)
tensively repaired towards the close of the Ninth Century. The inscription of Mahendrapala L. of Kanauj discovered at Paharpur incidentally proves that the Pala kingdom had been wiped out by Bhoja Le of Kanauj soon after the battle of Munger, in the middle of the Ninth Century
The temple is built almost ex- The temple appears to have been clusively of small bricks with mud Garbha-Chitya, or 4 hollow, as martar, "and it is strange that Pagoda. In the plan it resembled with this material some parts up to gigantic Maltese Cross, the arms a height of 60 feet from the ground of which were large staircases level still stand after a lapse of now hidden in the projections at some thirteen centuries. Stone the four cardinal points of the cen-has been sparingly used in this trai mound. The northern stair-temple, but most of the pillars and case, which has been almost com- pilasters are of stone, as are the pletely exposed, is nearly 150 feet huge drain pipes of gargoyles in length, but the steps are all shaped as heads of erocodiles,
This power must be fortified by a sense of duty and a reverence of things that are worthy and beauti- ful. Above all this power should be exercised in a spirit of unsel fishness and with regard to the welfare of the community. In school games, in which I take great interest, and in many of the modern forms of school work, your pupils will learn the invaluable lossons of comradeship and co-ruined, and further excavation will operation, of playing and be necessary to determine its in-
working for the team, rather than for themselves alone. If this view of education
térnal plan. Along the side walls At Nuneaton, Frank Dyke, aged of the staircase and the lower part. 23, a coalminer on strike, was sen-
is right; and I believe it is, then I of the plinth there are two dados tenced to three month's imprison- say give us more and more educa-These dados are composed of ed to pay 259. damages for dis divided by projecting cornices.ment with hard labour and order- tion. (Cheers.).
Eagerness for Education.
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beautifully moulded terra-cotta charging a stone from a catapult plaques, portraying flowers, trees, at an emnibus, owned by the rocks, snakes, animals, and human, Haunchwood "Collieries, Limited. I am especially glad the Prinec as well as divine and semi-divine, which was conveying working continued, when meating you here,figures. The terra-cotta plaques miners from the pits to their to be able to tell you that your show the existence of a very high homes. work was never so much appreciat- ed as it is to-day. During my tra- vels in all-parts of the country and in the Dominions overseas, I have been struck by the increasing eagerness of all classes of the community to obtain for their children a far better education than they themselves were able to secure. This better education is only possible through your" co- operation, and your presence here! at this great refresher course is evidence of the seriousness with which you view your responsibili- ties. Your motto is "Bear forward the torch of knowledge." It is in the sincere belief that in so doing |you are serving the highest inter- est of the nation and indeed of the world at large, that I wish you God speed in your grent work (Cheera.)
Lord Eustace Perey, Minister of Education, said that we needed: more education. We always should need more education. The moment of national decay would only come if we ever felt content and ant- tisfied with the knowledge that we had got already.
Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Warden of New College, Oxfded, announced that the Bush.scholarship of £300 founded by Mr. Irving T. Bush, of New York, had been awarded to Mr. John Whitely, the Central Council School, Oxford, who would go to America to study the American vocational high schools, and their bearing on the reorgani- sation of English Central Schools...
The Prince of Wales prosented the Scholarship to the winner. ́a
M. Jules Decaps, director of the Economic Services at the Banque de France, who accompanied M. Raoul Peret to London as technil- cal adviser, was killed, together with his wife, by the over-turning of their motor-car at Genouilhat (Crouse)
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