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dated January 24, 1957: Centenary convocation

The Vice-President, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, has called for the adoption of the university spirit to "civilise human nature" in a world in which the annihilating power of war had vastly increased. "The university spirit pleads for sanity in a period of hysteria, for moderation in place of intemperance, for the rigours of thought instead of easy surrender to partisan slogans," he declared while delivering the centenary convocation address of the Calcutta University on January 23. He said the world today, split as it was into two groups with large stores of atomic weapons, faced devastation and the risk of catastrophe, but "the future is in our own hands. Sheer self-interest requires us to relieve the tensions that beset the world and establish decency and friendship in a world which has apparently forgotten them. We must recognise that mutual hatred is more deadly than mutual violence." Dr. Radhakrishnan began his address by paying a tribute to the Calcutta University, saying that in its century-old existence the university had produced great scientists and eminent scholars. Of the nine fellows who were elected to the Royal Society in our time, five worked in this university - Jagadish Bose, C.V. Raman, Meghnad Saha, K.S. Krishnan and P.C. Mahalanobis. The two Nobel Laureates in Literature and Physical Science, Rabindranath Tagore and C.V. Raman, were associated with this university.

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