Dayananda Anglo-Vedic College : of Lahore, founded in 1888 by some followers of Swami Dayānanda with the object of propagating the ideas of the Arya Samāj without discarding English & Western education. Lālā Hans Raj was the institution’s principal. [Cf. New English School & Fergusson College opened in Poona in 1880 & in 1885 resp.]
... words there can be no national education without national control. A certain measure of success has been secured by two institutions of a later birth, the Benares Hindu College and the Dayananda Anglo-Vedic College. These are successful institutions, but isolated. They have not developed into centres of a network of schools affiliated to them and forming one corporate body. They have not in themselves... basis of the National University. But the Benares College has shown itself unfit for so huge a task. It has been obliged to rely on foreign funds and to court Government patronage. Even the Dayananda Anglo-Vedic College is a more robust growth, for it has been built up by the munificent self-sacrifice of the Arya Samaj. No institution which cannot rely on the people of India for its support and build itself ...
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