King’s College : Founded in 1441, it was the 7th college recognised by the residential University of Cambridge (q.v.) &, by the end of the 19th century, had the highest standards in Classics. It held annual exams for five Scholarships worth £80 p.a. tenable for two years. Sri Aurobindo obtained a Classical Scholarship in December 1889 in order to maintain himself in England during the two-year course of his ICS Studies. Selected an ICS probationer in July 1890, he came up to King’s in October 1890 as resident Scholar. He would study under a Supervisor but could read with one or more Tutors & also attend the Lectures organised by the Classical Faculty. College tuitions were free but he had to pay rent for his rooms & meals at the College dining room. Unlike other undergraduates could not afford any ‘social life’ since his scholarship “was rather a gesture than an attempt to meet [his] actual financial needs”. Braithwaite: “Within the somewhat restricted sphere of an academic institution, the Colonial student learns to heal, debate, to paint & to think; outside that sphere he has to meet the indignities & rebuffs of intolerance, prejudice & hate… I have yet to meet a single English person who has actually admitted to anti-Negro prejudice; it is even generally believed that no such thing exists here. He is free to board any bus or train and sit anywhere, provided he has paid the appropriate fare; the fact that many people might pointedly avoid sitting near him is casually overlooked…. I had frequently observed the disapproval on the faces of the English people at the sight of a white woman in Negro’s company…. It seems as though there were some unwritten law in Britain which required any healthy able-bodied Negro resident there to be either celibate by inclination, or else a mast of the art of sublimation…. We were to be men, but without manhood.” [To Sir, With Love, Penguin, New York, 1987: 39-42, 95-96] Twenty-one of the forty-five ICS probationers were at Cambridge, four of them Paulines, two at Clare & good old Wood at Christ’s. Despite his obligations to his scholarship & ICS studies, by October 1892 Sri Aurobindo had won several College prizes & passed the First Part of the Classical Tripos with honours. He could have got the B.A. degree, had he asked but did not care for an academic life in England. King’s had created an affinity to English & European thought & literature but not to England’s atmosphere, besides he made no intimate friends. A rumour spread that eager old Wood added in his letter to the Indian CID in 1908: “He was certain of a very good degree & a fellowship, with which prospect he was understood to be quite content.” Actually, with the intimation in 1886 of being destined for a role in imminent global upheavals, the insight of the reasons for & results of the French, American & Italian revolutions at St. Paul’s, & “the flowering of the inner being or inner nature into self-realisation & self-knowledge” at King’s revealing the Atman as “a true clue to the reality behind life & the world”, Sri Aurobindo was primed to dedicate himself to the liberation of his motherland, basing his claim for freedom solely on humanity’s inherent right to freedom & on a lucid political method & plan of action. [ICS register on Arthur Wood: “Foundation Scholar, Sept. 1883; left School 1889; entered ICS June 1890.” Wood wrote this Note as Collector, Kaira Dist., Bombay, to Director, CID; it is filed as Govt. of India’s Home Dept. Proceedings, D–June, 1908, 13:3]
... in the evening a penny saveloy”, some sort of sausage. Aravinda took the scholarship examination for King’s College at Cambridge University; he was elected to the first vacant open scholarship, which means that he was the best candidate. Known as A.A. Ghose, Aravinda studied at King’s College from October 1890 to October 1892. The time of direst poverty was now over thanks to the scholarship. “As ...
... the past twenty-five or thirty years, Aravinda was by far the most richly endowed in intellectual capacity. In December of the previous year Aravinda had taken the Scholarship Examination for King’s College at Cambridge University. As a result of his performance in this examination, he was elected to the first vacant open scholarship, which means that he was the best candidate. Oscar Browning, one... examination. I have examined papers at thirteen examinations and I have never during that time seen such excellent papers as yours … As for your essay, it was wonderful.’ Aravinda studied at King’s College, where he was known as A.A. Ghose, from October 1890 to October 1892. His scholarship earned him £ 80 a year, which he shared with his brothers; the time of the direst poverty was over. The burden... Cambridge experience. The university’s atmosphere took hold of those who entered it and wrought a comprehensive change.’ 15 A.A. Ghose was ‘one of the two best Classics of his year in King’s College.’ The first year he won a prize for Greek iambics; the second year he ended his study with First Class Honours and won prizes again for Greek iambics and Latin hexameters. The same year he won ...
... offered by King’s College of Cambridge University. He sat for the examination in December 1889 and came out first. Oscar Browning, then a renowned linguist and writer, confided later to Aurobindo that his papers for Greek and Latin had been the best submitted to him as an examiner in thirteen years. In his recently published Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography, Peter Heehs writes: ‘King’s College, founded ...
... February 21, birth of Mother in Paris, 62 boulevard Haussmann. 1879 Departure of Sri Aurobindo for England. 1886-97 Mother lives at 3 square du Roule. 1890 Sri Aurobindo at King’s College, Cambridge. Mother’s first experience: the “Revolution of Atoms.” 1893 Sri Aurobindo returns to India. First revolutionary article. 1897 October 13, Mother’s marriage to Henri Morisset ...
... instruction that the boys should be shielded from any contact with their motherland, its culture and its religions. Later Aravinda would study at the renowned St. Paul’s School in London and at King’s College in Cambridge. While still a student, and throughout his life, he was recognised for his mastery of the English language. Also, Cambridge made him into a classical scholar. Yet he did not become ...
... he was sent to St. Paul's School at Darjeeling, and then, when he showed unusual promise, to King's College, Cambridge.... ... His chosen medium of expression is English. Another error is worth correcting. The reviewer seems to assume that Sri Aurobindo was sent straight from India to King's College, Cambridge, and that he had [to] learn English as a foreign language. This is not the fact;... educated in French and Latin and other subjects under private tuition in Manchester from seven to eleven and studied afterwards in St Paul's School London for about seven years. From there he went to King's College. He had never to study English at all as a subject; though it was not his native language, it had become by force of circumstances from the very first his natural language. Page 25 ...
... amount of £80 a year was paid from Page 186 the foundation of King's College, Cambridge, which was started in 1441 by King Henry VI. However, it was only in the next academic year that a vacancy arose and A. A. Ghose could join college: "Ghose Aravinda Acroyd, admitted scholar at King's College, October 11, 1890 . . . Matric Michaelmas 1890 . . ." The feast of St. Michael, one... October 1892, when A. A. Ghose was at King's, his quarters —'that wretched hole' in Oscar Browning's words —consisted of a bedroom facing north, a small kitchen with sink, stove and cupboard, and a sitting-room, or study. Sri Aurobindo's quarters were on the second floor of the building on King's Lane. Its rooms were reserved for the Scholars of King's College. The building has since been demolished... was so in the last century. Thus it was in December 1889 that A. A. Ghose took the Examination for Scholarships, Exhibitions and Admissions to King's College, Cambridge. The Scholarship examination was taken at Cambridge under the supervision of the college authorities. There were several papers, such as translation from English verse and prose into Latin and Greek, and vice versa. Needless to specify ...
... l Notes Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes At Cambridge It is said that the Provost of King's College, Mr. Austen Leigh, quickly recognized Aurobindo's unusual talent and rich integrity. [ Altered to: ] Aurobindo's unusual talents early attracted the admiration of Oscar Browning, then a well-known... examination, were the best he had ever seen and quite remarkable. Aurobindo now turned the full fury of his attention to classical studies and in the fullness of time, graduated from King's College in 1892, with a First Class in Classical Tripos. Sri Aurobindo did not graduate; he took and passed the Tripos in his second year; to graduate one had to take the Tripos in the third year or ...
... Autobiographical Notes Autobiographical Notes Life Sketches and other Autobiographical Notes Autobiographical Notes Information Supplied to the King's College Register [1] [ Answers (on right) to questions in a form received in 1903 ] [1893] 1 [April] 2 Page 20 [2] [ Corrections made in 1928 to the printed ...
... seven he was taken to England for his education. There, he studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college. In 1906, Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta where he became one of the ...
... Manmohan and Benoybhusan in Manchester (courtesy Smt, Lahori Chatterjee) 135 A street in central London late last century 146 A lake in the Lake District early this century 186 King's College , Cambridge, late last century 234 The Thames, London, late last century 37, 169, 203, 220, 237 Drawings by Sujata Achevé d'imprimer sur les ...
... turn the full fury of his attention to Classical studies. These studies were already finished at that time. Page 30 After a couple of years of intense study, he graduated from King's College in 1892, with a First Class in Classical Tripos. This happened earlier, not after the Civil Service failure. At the end of the period of probation, however, he did not choose to appear ...
... during this period engaged very little of his time; he was already at ease in them and did not think it necessary to labour over them any longer. All the same he was able to win all the prizes in King's College in one year for Greek and Latin verse etc. Young Aurobindo had thus achieved rare academic distinctions at a very early age. He had mastered Greek and Latin and English, and he had also acquired ...
... Notes Incomplete Life Sketch in Outline Form, c. 1922 Born 1872. Sent to England for education 1879. Studied at St Paul's School, London, and King's College, Cambridge. Returned to India. February, 1893. Life of preparation at Baroda 1893-1906 Political life—1902-1910 [The "Swadeshi" movement prepared from 1902-5 and started definitely ...
... most brilliant academic career. At the end of the first year at King's College he won a prize for Greek Iambics. At the end of the second year he was awarded prizes for Greek Iambics again, as well as for Latin Hexameters. Having distinguished himself in the College Examination in Classics, A. A. Ghose was given "books bearing the College arms, to the value of forty pounds" —an amount equivalent to half... who later became a professor, was an undergraduate with Sri Aurobindo at King's College during 1890-91. He too acknowledged what a wiz his fellow student was at Classics. "I knew him in those days quite well, and have happy recollections of him as a brilliant young classical scholar, an open Entrance Scholar of the College, of marked literary and poetic taste, and as far as I ever saw a young man... Brilliant Student Who could believe that the shy young man, poet, brilliant scholar, with such a fine sense of quiet humour and so frail could ever be a revolutionary? Most of his school and college mates had a very high regard for A. A. Ghose both as a person and as a scholar. "The present writer was at school with him," wrote an ex-Pauline, Phillip W. Seargent, "and can bear witness to his brilliant ...
... Lepper, M.A., who was an undergraduate with Aurobindo at King's College during 1890-91, and formerly in the service of His Highness the Maharajah of Travancore. He writes: " I knew him in those days quite well, and have happy recollections of him as a brilliant young classical scholar, an open Entrance Scholar of the College, of marked literary and poetic taste, and as far as I ever saw... me to try the University." The difficulty which Manmohan speaks of was common to the three brothers. There was only a slight modification in Aurobindo's case as he received a scholarship from King's College, Cambridge, and also had an allowance for the I. C. S. probationership. Even so, he was always hard up, particularly because he used to help his two brothers whenever he could. A letter from... light on the strained condition under which the three brothers had to carry on their studies in England. One is a letter written to James Cotton by G. W. Prothero, a tutor and senior Fellow of King's College, on hearing about Aurobindo's rejection from the I. C. S. on the ground of Aurobindo's non-appearance for the riding test. It is a letter worthy of a university man vindicating the values of culture ...
... December 1889 Sri Aurobindo passed the Matriculation examination from St. Paul's. In the same month he also sat for a scholarship examination which enabled the successful candidate to go up to King's College, Cambridge. For this examination, which was open to all eligible students in England, Sri Aurobindo took the papers in the Classical languages i.e. Greek and Latin. He was adjudged the best candidate... The period of probation was for two years which he could spend at Cambridge whilst pursuing his other studies. In July 1890 Sri Aurobindo left St. Paul's and in October of the same year he joined King's College, Cambridge. He had completed his eighteenth year, two months earlier. ... never had any terror for me nor is it an incentive. You seem to forget that I left my very safe and "handsome" Baroda position without any need to do it and that I gave up also the Rs.150 of National College Principalship, leaving myself with nothing to live on. I could not have done that, if money had been an incentive.' This shows how equal-souled he was to hardships and comforts even at that early age ...
... Sri Aurobindo at King's College, Cambridge, 1890 -92 rude we are to our scholars! We get great minds to come down here and then shut them up in that box. I suppose it is to keep their pride down.' " Though Sri Aurobindo occupied himself mostly with extra-curricular studies, he was still able "to win all the prizes in King's College in one year for Greek and Latin verse... Subsequently Sri Aurobindo also "went separately into lodgings until he took up residence at Cambridge". Sri Aurobindo secured a senior classical scholarship of £.80 per annum when he joined the King's College, Cam- bridge. This lessened his hardship to a certain extent. At Cambridge, Sri Aurobindo attracted the attention of Oscar Browning, a well-known figure there. In regard to Browning's appreciation... and social movements. Krishna Dhan passed the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University from the local school and was admitted into the Calcutta Medical College. When he was nineteen years old and still studying in the Medical College, he married Srimati Swarnalata Devi, the eldest daughter of Page 2 Rishi Rajnarayan Bose who, to quote the Karmayogin, ¹ "represented the ...
... Committee Member of the UNESCO (NGO) on behalf of the Sri Aurobindo Society. Shri Bhattacharjee had recently the extra-ordinary privilege to be invited by Sri Aurobindo’s own alma mater, King's College, Cambridge, to speak on his Master's life and spiritual message to humanity. Thanks are due to him for popularising, wherever he has been in his frequent tours abroad as well as in India ...
... soul-stirring music in the West is to be heard in the church. Though I am not conversant with the technique of European music, I found it possible to enter into the spirit of European music. At King's College chapel at Cambridge, I had occasion to hear organ-music while a minister was practising for his choir-service. Though the music was informal, it was for me an unforgettable experience. The beautiful ...
... 1879,June -Sri Aurobindo leaves India for England with his parents and his two elder brothers. He spends 5 years in Manchester, enters St. Paul's School, London, in 1884, and King's College, Cambridge, in 1890. 1885,Dec -First session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay. 1886,Aug. 16 -Sri Ramakrishna passes away. 1892,August -... National College opens with Sri Aurobindo as its principal. 1906, Dec. At its Calcutta session presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji, the Congress declares Swaraj to be its goal. 1907,Aug.16 Sri Aurobindo is arrested for the publication of seditious writings in the Bande Mataram; released on bail. He resigns his post of principal of the Bengal National College, giving on... Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Indu Prakash. 1897- Sri Aurobindo teaches French, then English at the Baroda College; he will become its Vice-Principal in 1905. 1897, Jan. 15 - Swami Vivekananda lands at Colombo, and on his way north delivers many lectures throughout India. c. 1900 ...
... from Bengal who had been taken out of India in 1881 when seven years old, tutored privately at first in an English family at Manchester, sent later to St. Paul's School in London and finally to King's College at Cambridge. The slowly unfolding answer to this query is the tale Professor K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar has to tell in the neatly got-up and chastely printed book of four hundred and odd... knows nor the literature of England the only "monument of the mind's magnificence" he is familiar with. From St. Paul's School, London, he went with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he took away in one year all the prizes for Greek and Latin verse. In the open I.C.S. examination in which he competed he scored record marks in these ancient languages that... subject. There is no esoteric heaviness in his book; any layman can pick it up and run through it; the clear graceful sentences ripple on, rising here and * Published by Arya Publishing House, College Street, Calcutta, price Rs. 8 Page 70 there to a beautiful glittering crest, bending in several directions but keeping always a recognizable course, carrying a good deal of ...
... in England felt the impress of the bud-form of what traditional Indians continue to call the "lotus-feet" of the Avatar who was their Guru. Perhaps the most sacred spot is the room at King's College, Cambridge, where young Aurobindo was unfolding his powers the most with superb proficiency in Greek and Latin side by side with mastery in English and where the founts of poetic inspiration were... rocks" - a context where along with the r- alliteration picking up the internal r-sound of "hurrying" we have an appropriate retarding effect in the cluster of consonants in "reluctant". King's College has indeed a lot of Sri Aurobindo impressed on its subtle ether akash, but possibly the central being in him, the one that became the Master Yogi of the age, can be Page 331 ... Then Alfred, prince of England, And all the Christian earls, Unhooked their swords and held them up, Each offered to Colan, like a cup Of chrysolite and pearls. And the King said, "Do thou take my sword Who have done this deed of fire. For this is the manner of Christian men, Whether of steel or priestly pen. That they cast their hearts out of their ken ...
... hexametre in English." It was his recitation of a very Homeric line from Clough that gave Sri Aurobindo the real swing of the metre. 1 1. Hugh Norman Ferrers was admitted scholar at King's College on 4 October 1889, became a barrister and practised in Malaya States, then served in the First World War. Page 195 But Sri Aurobindo's greatest debt was undoubtedly to his brother ...
... the King's College Register . [1] 16 September 1903. While in Srinagar, Sri Aurobindo received a form from the editors of the Register of Admissions of his Cambridge college, asking him for information about his university and subsequent career. He filled out the form on 16 September and returned it. The text is reproduced here from the original form, which is preserved in the King's College... cancelled by him are set in "strike-out" mode, his additions in regular type. The text is reproduced from the original form, which is preserved in the King's College Library. The revised entry was published in A Register of Admissions to King's College Page 560 Cambridge 1797 - 1928 , compiled by John J. Withers (London, 1929). Section Two ... Provost; Austen Leigh was Provost of King's College during the years Sri Aurobindo attended (1890 - 92). During the same period G. W. Prothero held the post of Praelector ( Cambridge University Calendar , 1890, 1891, 1892 - 93; personal communications from the Provost and the Librarian, King's College, Cambridge, 1975 - 77). Prothero took some interest in Sri ...
... a little. But when now and then I wrote Greek and Latin verse my teachers would lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of laziness. When I went up with a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning commented that he had not seen such remarkable papers. As you see, in spite of my laziness I was not deteriorating! DR. BECHARLAL: Was there any prejudice against ...
... summits The puppets of the earth.... Page 143 Dr. Walker was once again proved right in his student. Aravinda Ackroyd Ghose secured many prizes, and won an open scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. We shall be coming to that. However, we must also know the conditions in which the three brothers lived in England during these years. And, er, I was forgetting to mention the... also had taken two years of 'analytical conies.' Then it was the last term, and he was seventeen. He now paid more attention to his studies, because he needed to obtain a scholarship to go to college. Class U VIII Christmas 1889 Composition revived. Doing more & better work in every way. Decidedly improved this term. V. Good. V. fair. Has made considerable progress ...
... Scholarship tenable at King's College Cambridge, the I.C.S. stipend for the probationary period placed Sri Aurobindo in a much better position financially than during the two immediately preceding years of privation and poverty. After his success at the I.C.S., Sri Aurobindo could have (if he had so wished) stopped or at least taken easy his further studies in the classics at King's, but that was not... Prize for Greek iambics, and other prizes, in King's College. Writing of him to James Cotton, Sri Aurobindo's senior tutor G.W. Prothero said: His pecuniary circumstances prevented him from resigning [his scholarship (classical)] when he became a Selected Candidate [for the I.C.S.].... He performed his part of the bargain, as regards the College, most honourably.... That a man should have been... mediaeval and modem Europe. The period of about two years between old Mrs. Drewett's going away and Sri Aurobindo's winning a classical scholarship of the value of £80 per year tenable at King's College, Cambridge, was a time of "the greatest suffering and poverty", 21 and for a whole year at least, he had to subsist on a slice or two of sandwich, bread arid butter and a cup of tea in the morning ...
... for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in [1884] 1 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two years. In 1890 he passed also the open competition for the Indian Civil Service, but at the end of two years of probation failed to present himself at the riding... Swadeshi industries to replace them, boycott of British law courts and the foundation of a system of Arbitration courts in their stead, boycott of Government universities and colleges and the creation of a network of National colleges and schools, the formation of societies of young men which would do the work of police and defence and, wherever necessary, a policy of passive resistance were among the immediate... years, from 1893 to 1906, in the Baroda Service, first in the Revenue Department and in secretariat work for the Maharaja, afterwards as Professor of English and, finally, Vice-Principal in the Baroda College. These were years of self-culture, of literary activity—for much of the poetry afterwards published from Pondicherry was written at this time—and of preparation for his future work. In England he had ...
... Oscar Browning was a super-don, nothing more, but he had a fine literary sense and could pick out good writing - poetry or prose - unerringly. The letter from King's College, Cambridge, after calling O.B. "the feature par excellence of King's", reads: "He said to me: ''I suppose you know you passed an extraordinarily high examination. I have examined papers at thirteen examinations and I have never... the perils of the journey through the unknown that Satan ultimately attempted. Now feel the dangers of a luminous and ecstatic soul-exposure - an experience through which Savitri's father, the Yogi-king Aswapati, passed: His nature shuddered in the Unknown's grasp. In a moment shorter than Death, longer than Time, By a power more ruthless than Love, happier than Heaven, ...
... shall not live to see it, but remember this letter if you do. I tell you what Oscar Browning the great son of the great father said to him when he was at tea with one of the dons of his College. (He is at King's College, Cambridge, now, borne there by his own Page 163 ability.)" We shall present Ara's letter to his father a few chapters hence. Dr. K. D. continued his impassioned ...
... the District and Sessions Judge for 24-Parganas and Hooghly at the time of the Alipore Bomb Case trial. A good cricketer, he had been a scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, during the same two years that Sri Aurobindo was a fellow at King's College of the same university. Both A.A. Ghose and CP. Beachcroft had passed the Open Page 473 Competitive Examination for the I.C.S. held in... defence of the accused. Because the charges framed against the prisoners were serious enough in all conscience. It was a charge of "waging war against His Majesty the King-Emperor of India;" it was to conspire "to deprive His Majesty the King-Emperor of India of the Sovereignty of British India or a part thereof ..."; it was "to overawe by criminal force the Government of India or the Local Government of ...
... 1889 December Passes Matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890 July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, joins the Indian Majlis, a student group; makes speeches advocating Indian freedom. 1891 August to April 1892 Works on "The Vigil of Thaliard"... work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 Appointed acting Professor of English in the College. 1899 Serves as acting Professor of English and lecturer in French. June-July Writes Love and Death, a narrative poem. July 22 Lecture at the Baroda College Social Gathering. 1900 Acting Professor of English in the College. c. 1900... August 2 Resigns the principalship of the Bengal National College. August 16 Arrested on the charge of sedition for writings which had appeared in the Bande Mataram; released on bail. August 23 Speech to the students of the Bengal National College. After his acquittal in September, he rejoins the College as a professor. September 23 Acquitted. After the Bande ...
... London. 1889 — December Passes matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890—July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, joins the Indian Majlis, a student group; makes speeches advocating Indian freedom. 1891—August to April 1892 Works on "The Vigil of Thaliard", a long ballad... work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 — Appointed acting professor of English in the College. 1899 — Serves as acting professor of English and lecturer in French. June-July Writes Love and Death, a narrative poem. July 22 Lecture at the Baroda College Social Gathering. 1900 — Acting professor of English in the College. c. 1900... 28 Directed to leave the Huzur Kamdar's office and join the College full time. December At the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress. 1904 — Begins the practice of Yoga. 1905 — January Assumes the post of Vice-principal of the College. March 3 Becomes acting Principal of the College. October 16 The partition of Bengal becomes an "accomplished ...
... greater Leonardo da Vinci, the seeds of a new age. A Bengali by birth, he was yet educated from his seventh to his twenty-first year in England, first at St. Paul's School, London, and then at King's College, Cambridge. Over and above using the English language as if it were his mother-tongue, he was a brilliant classical scholar who made his mark not only at Cambridge but also in the open c ...
... Sri Aurobindo, hailing from India, was educated in England from his seventh to his twenty-first year — at the start privately in Manchester, later at St. Paul's School in London and finally at King's College, Cambridge. He became not only a master of English but also an extraordinary scholar of Greek and Latin. He grew perfectly familiar with French and knew Italian and German sufficiently to read ...
... beauty. It was to "Kalyaniya Dilipkumar Roy" that Rabindranath dedicated his book Chhanda. The quote is from the very first letter to J.D. Anderson, I. C. S., Professor of Bengali at King's College, Cambridge, where they met on 14 July 1912. Anderson passed away on 24 October 1920, at the age of 67. Page 298 Their correspondence—in Bengali and English—throws much light... (1884-1973): A 20th Century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian, remembered for his interreligious lectures in India. Subash Chandra Bose (23.1.1897). Dilipda's intimate from their college days; a great patriot, highly intelligent; great organizational skill; politician of no mean repute; founder of the political party "Forward Block"; during WWII he formed the Indian National... 4.1954), eminent professor of Philosophy, and author of Hindu Mysticism, System of Vedantic Thought and Culture, etc. Dr. Andre was the Director of Pondicherry's Government Medical College and Hospital. Rajangam was a medical student in Madras when, captivated by the Arya, he went to see Sri Aurobindo in 1921. He returned to Madras, completed his medical studies, and went ...
... but after the probationary period, did not turn up for the final riding test; for this and for anti-government speeches in England, was debarred from service. 1890-92 Joined King's College, Cambridge. Passed high in the first part (first class) of Classical Tripos in one year. 1892 Was Secretary of Indian Majlis, Cambridge, started this year. Gave speeches to... Provincial Conference at Barisal, after which toured and lectured in the districts of East Bengal. June: Took one year's leave without pay from Baroda College. Joined the newly-started National College in Calcutta as Principal. August: The Bande Mataram was started by Bepinchandra Pal. Sri Aurobindo joined it as leader-writer. Consolidated... Benoybhusan and second Monmohan had education in England along with Sri Aurobindo. Benoybhusan twas in Cooch- bihar State Service and Monmohan, Professor of English, Presidency College, Calcutta. Monmohan was a poet. While in England his poetry received appreciation from a number of English critics including Edmund Gosse. Next to Monmohan was Sri Aurobindo followed by their sister ...
... audience, 'Yours is an old seat of learning, and it has the distinction of giving to the world great discoverers like Newton and Faraday and others. I have come to tell you that here, in this King's College, there was another distinguished discoverer, Sri Aurobindo, from India who laid bare the supramental level of consciousness, opening thereby an immense realm of spiritual experience Page... life vast changes by showing the possibilities of ameliorating the material conditions of the masses by technology all over the world. Man has been enabled to establish himself as the undisputed king among creatures of earth and he is expanding his physical consciousness to outer space as his domain. Mind has succeeded in mastering material energy by the knowledge of its processes. Even ...
... the same year as Sri Aurobindo, 1890. Sri Aurobindo had then secured a higher position than he in the examination. Thereafter both were scholars at Cambridge — Sri Aurobindo at King's College and Beachcroft at Clare College. Their paths must have met many times, particularly when they were taking the intermediate and final examinations for the ICS. Certainly they knew each other but they were not close ...
... of material not written for publication, come at the end. PART ONE: THE HARMONY OF VIRTUE (CAMBRIDGE 1890-1892) Sri Aurobindo wrote all these pieces while an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge, between 1890 and 1892. He did not publish any of them during his lifetime. The Sole Motive of Man's Existence. 1891. Editorial title. The piece obviously is incomplete. Sri... shortly after they were written. Address at the Baroda College Social Gathering. Editorial title. Sri Aurobindo delivered this talk to those attending the annual social gathering of Baroda College on 22 July 1899. At that time he was working as professor of English at Baroda College. The talk was published in The Baroda College Miscellany , vol. 5, no. 2 (September 1899) under the title The... Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Resolving a Problem of Seniority in the High School. 3 May 1905. This opinion was written by Sri Aurobindo as acting principal of Baroda College in response to a representation of certain teachers in the Baroda High School (which was administered by the College) setting forth their objections to a proposal to give a ...
... are soonest thralled to love. Sir Edmund Leach, late provost of King's College, Cambridge, who provided the information on the scholarship examination, went on to add: It is possible that [Sri Aurobindo] Ghose was a candidate for the Porson Scholarship; alternatively it is possible that his King's College supervisor set him the Porson Scholarship paper as an exercise to... dated 14 March 1947. A PPENDIX : P OEMS IN G REEK AND IN F RENCH As a student in England Sri Aurobindo wrote many poems in Greek and in Latin as school or college assignments. A typical assignment would be to render an English poem into Greek or Latin verse of a given metre. The Greek epigram below appears to be an example of such an assignment.... Bugles of Light. Circa 1934–35. A single handwritten manuscript on the back of a note written to Sri Aurobindo on 31 December 1934. Page 727 The Fire King and the Messenger . Circa 1934–35. A single manu-script, written in a notebook near a draft of "Thought the Paraclete". God to thy greatness. No title in the manuscript. March 1936. A single ...
... man be led to kowtow to what his reason cannot label or docket? I recall a remark Tagore made years ago. He and Bertrand Russell had once gone out for a stroll in Cambridge. As they passed by King's College Chapel Page 124 they heard a choral hymn being sung by the boys: lovely music! Tagore suggested to Russell that they step inside the Chapel. "Nothing doing," replied the ... Dyunuilsenusuiam viram satyavantum anuvratām. Sāviirimiva mām viddhi twamāma vashavurtinim. (Ramayana: 2.30) Page 128 the lovely daughter of King Aswapati, wants to marry Satyavan, the son of King Dyumatsen, who having lost his kingdom has been forced to live in a forest, a blind exile. But the Sage Narada tells her that Satyavan is fated to expire within a year, whereupon... Eternity's law... 74 When Life's tops shall flame with the Immortal's thoughts, Light shall invade the darkness of its base, 75 because When superman is bom as Nature's king His presence shall transfigure Matter's world: He shall light up Truth's fire in Nature's night, He shall lay upon the earth Troth's greater law; Man too shall turn towards the ...
... Hall at Cambridge,4 I said: " Yours is an old seat of learning. It has the distinction of giving to the world great discoverers like Newton and Faraday. I have come to tell you that here in King's College there was another distinguished discoverer, Sri Aurobindo, from India, who laid bare the Supramental level of Conscious- ______________ 3. August 15, 1960. 4 November, 1955. Page... It has given a new concept of collective life by showing the possibility of ameliorating the material condition of the masses all over the world. Man has established himself as the undisputed king among creatures of the earth and he is expanding his physical consciousness to outer space claiming it as his domain. Mind has succeeded in mastering material energy by the knowledge of its processes ...
... 28, 30, 38; at the Darjeeling School, 28; at Manchester, 30ff; time of privation, 31; Senior Classical Scholarship, 31; holidays with Manmohan, 32ff; success in ICS examinations, 33; at King's College, 33ff; Oscar Browning on, 33-34; member of Indian Majlis and 'Lotus & Dagger', 34,37,183,281; 'Riding Test', 36ff; rejection from ICS, 37; appointment in Baroda, 37; songs to Myrtilla, 38ff, 71;... three arches, works-knowledge-love, 464; wide range of comprehension, 465; central argument, 465; the idea of sacrifice, 466; Krishna as friend and avatar, 466; dual role of avatar, 466; King-Knowledge, King-science, 467; visvarupa and after, 467; the supreme exhortation, 468; message of the Gita, 468, 514, 516, 751 Ferrer, H. N., 325, 639, 695 Fitzgerald, Edward, 164 ... 16 Oct., 210; letters to Mrinalini, 213-15,235,265; the "three frenzies", 213ff; on "Mother India", 214; his mahavrata, 214; at Benaras Congress, 216; at Barisal Conference, 217; Prof. at National College, 218; in charge of Bande Mataram, 221ff; on the "Life of Nationalism", 223ff; on Dadabhai and Tilak, 226-7; on Passive Resistance, 229ff, 282-3, 362; on use of violence, 230,283; freedom a holy yajna ...
... 325 Certificate on the last occasion and consequently has not received the allowance of £150 payable after the Final Examination. He was an undergraduate of King's College, Cambridge and that College, if applied to, might state why the certificate was not granted. Mr Ghose obtained the 11th place at the Open Competition of 1890 – was No. 23 in the First Periodical Examination... The Secretary Civil Service Commission. XIII Mr Godley, Mr J. S. Cotton called on me this morning and left the enclosed letter to him from Mr Ghose's Tutor at King's College Cambridge. He asked me to give it to you. Mr Cotton says that Ghose will be ready (if the C. S. Commission will consent) to attend the Riding Examination in a very short time. F. Trevor... from Pondicherry by Sri Aurobindo. I hastened to register my name in advance. In those days of political storms, to avoid the suspicion of the college authorities and the police, I had ordered the magazine to be delivered to an address outside the college. Sri Aurobindo then appeared to me to be the personification of the ideal of the life divine which he so ably put before humanity in the Arya ...
... little. When, now and then, I used to write Greek and Latin verse my teachers used to lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of my laziness. When I went for scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning remarked that he had not seen such remarkable papers before. So, you see, in spite of all laziness I was not deteriorating. Disciple : Was there a prejudice... mental, – too intellectual, while the ancient systems were more intuitional. These subjects used to be handed down from Guru to Disciple. The same is true about yoga. One can't think of schools and colleges and studies about yoga. That would be an American idea. The centre of yoga teaching Page 203 in America has been holding classes and giving lectures and courses. Disciple ... used to be interleaved and marked and full of notes. Then Sri Aurobindo , looking at X, said : "I was not so conscientious a professor." Disciple : But people who heard you in College and those who heard you afterwards in politics differ from you. They speak very highly of your lectures. Sri Aurobindo : I never used to look at the notes and sometimes my explanations did ...
... with an English family. In September 1884 Auro was admitted to St Paul's School in London and had his education there until July 1890. Later in the same year, in October, he joined King's College at Cambridge. Never during the entire period did young Sri Aurobindo come in contact with the traditional Indian life or culture. At the same time in England he "never was taught English... picked it up like a native in daily conversation. Before long he was spending much of his time reading. Almost from the start, he devoted himself to serious literature. As a ten-year-old he read the King James Bible." 12 Soon the attentive and wakeful student mastered half a dozen European languages, including Greek and Latin in which he scored highest marks ever obtained in a school examination ...
... little. But now and then when I wrote Greek and Latin verse my teachers used to lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of my laziness. "When I went up for Scholarship at the King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning remarked that he had not seen such remarkable papers before." ¹ During these years (the years of teaching at Baroda) Sri Aurobindo used to pass his vacations in Bengal... many students belonging to other colleges. But more than his college lectures, it was a treat to hear him on the platform. He used to preside occasionally over the meetings of the College Debating Society. When he was to preside, the College Central Hall which is sufficiently large was almost packed to the full with the audience which not only consisted of the College students but many educated persons... services were lent to the college from other departments for French lessons for certain periods in the week. So he began his work in the college as lecturer in French. Other work of the college was gradually added. At last the Principal requested the Maharaja to appoint him to the post of Professor of English and from there he rose to be the Vice-Principal of the college. Once he acted for the Principal ...
... was in such a place of raucousness that we lived. As for me, before I finished my school studies I appeared for the I.C.S. entrance examination and won the scholarship which would qualify me for King's College, Cambridge. By then we had grown up sufficiently to understand that Father must be' facing severe financial difficulties at home and that all our monetary problems could largely be solved if we... your country and shed lustre to your name.... Auro, I hope, will yet glorify his country by a brilliant administration. I shall not live to see it, but remember this letter if you do.... He is at King's College, Cambridge, now, borne there by his own ability. "Did you notice that he has twice suggested in this letter that he might not live long? And yet he had always been enormously self-confident... national education were established in Bengal and I was made the principal of the first college of this kind - the National College. I had been waiting for just such an opportunity for a long time. Immediately I resigned from the service of the Maharaja of Baroda and moved to Calcutta to take charge of this College. By now my responsibilities had grown really heavy, for I continued the revolutionary ...
... on my brief throughout the trial.... "Aravindo Ghose had been a brilliant scholar in Eng- Page 295 land. He had been head of St. Paul's and won a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge. There he was a contemporary of Mr. Beachcroft I.C.S. who tried him at Alipore and who had been head of Rugby and had also won a scholarship at Cambridge. Both won honours at the... work as the Principal of the National College. Both of these works entailed hard labour and drew heavily upon the reserve of his energies. But in both he achieved unexampled success. He endeared himself to his students at the National College, who loved and adored him with the same intensity of devotion as he had received from his students at the Baroda College. When he would lecture in the class, they... 1907, Sri Aurobindo resigned his post at the National College. About his resignation he writes: "At an early period he left the organisation of the College to the educationist Satish Mukherjee and plunged fully into politics. When the Bande Mataram case was brought against him he resigned his post in order not to embarrass the College authorities but resumed it again on his acquittal. During ...
... heartily of the windfall. He was just eighteen. What was he going to that nursery-of-gentlemen for? For one reason, he was fulfilling his father's wishes – though not for long. In his first year at King's College, he won all the prizes in Greek and Latin verse, but his heart was no longer in it. It was Joan of Arc, Mazzini, the American Revolution that haunted him – in other words, the liberation of his... survival. Sri Aurobindo was twenty. He found a position with the Maharaja of Baroda, as professor of French, then taught English at the state college, where he soon became vice-principal. He worked also as private secretary to the Prince. Between the court and the college he was busy enough, but in truth, it was the destiny of India that preoccupied him. He traveled many times to Calcutta, familiarizing himself... also, in ever larger numbers, the sacred books of India, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, although he had never been in a temple except as an observer. "Once, having returned from the College," one of his friends recalls, "Sri Aurobindo sat down, picked up a book at random and started to read, while Z and some friends began a noisy game of chess. After half an hour, he put the book down ...
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