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ON UNIVERSITY REFORMS 309
the work rather of discussion than of deliberate decision. I, therefore, propose to abolish the Board of Accounts and transfer its functions to the Syndicate which shall have power to determine—
(1) The finance, investments and accounts of the University.
(2) The amount and payment of fees to be exacted within the University, or in relation to the enjoyment of privileges therefrom.
(3) The terms and mode of appointment, tenure of and removal from office, duties, emoluments, allowances, salaries and superannuation allowances of the officers of the University, including its professors, teachers, registrars, librarians and permanent servants.
(4) The tenure of office and terms and manner of appointment and the duties of the Assessors, Examiners and Examining Board.
(5) The provisions and tenure of fellowships, scholarships, prizes, rewards, and pecuniary and other aids.
(6) The provision, maintenance, and supervision of halls, hostels or other premises for the residence of students.
(7) The admission of students as under-graduates of the University.
(8) To deal with the real and personal property of the University.
(9) To provide buildings, premises, furniture and apparatus and other means needed for carrying on the work of the University.
(10) To borrow money for the University and to mortgage University property if necessary.
(11) To enter into, vary, carry out and cancel contracts on behalf of the University.
(12) To entertain, adjudicate upon and if thought fit redress any grievances of the officers of the University, the professors, the teaching staff, the graduates, under-graduates and the University servants who may feel aggrieved otherwise than by an act of the Senate.
(13) To regulate the Government grants to the constituent colleges.
These three bodies, the Senate, the Syndicate and the Faculties should be constituted by the Act of Incorporation and together they are enough to supply all the necessary organs of a great teaching University. But there seems to be a want for one more body for the new University of Bombay, particularly for the transition period that is bound to be very long before the mother colleges at the centre of University education ripen into Universities pending which they must remain affiliated to one or other of the newly organized teaching Universities in this Presidency. But even if this problem of making provision for the transition period was not there, the need for a fourth body in the management of a great teaching University would be felt nonetheless.
The plan of organization I have proposed is based more or less on the principle of separation of powers. The centre of legislative power is the Senate. The centre of executive power is the Syndicate and the centre of