Abstract

We print below the names of 17 Honorary Visitors to the College, recently appointed by Government for a term of 3 years. Only four of these have been Honorary Visitors before and we hope that the newly appointed gentlemen will visit the College much oftener than several of their predecessors. Honorary Visitors are a non-official, influential body of landlords and they can, on one hand, give the benefit of their actual experiences of life to the College authorities lest the latter become too academi- cal and, on the other hand, benefit themselves to a certain extent by a direct observation of what is being done here and benefit the country at large by dispersing the ideas gathered here over a large extent of their estates. In illustration of our remark, we would say that those who came here once have felt the longing to come here several times and, on each succeeding visit, seemed to have been gratified and even profited with what they saw. Those who never came and they were the majority--cannot apparently know the nature of the work carried on at this important institution. In the name of the Madras Agricultural Students' Union, we would welcome them all to this Estate, at one time or other, especially at the time of the College Day and the Conference which are coming off in the middle of July.

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