" Lats year was a busy one for us at the school. Ideas for its expansion in different directions have developed very rapidly. It was merely a school upto this time - it is going to be a much bigger thing in the future.Bigger not in buildings, gymnasiums, and playgrounds - but bigger as a centre of higher education and culture. The school will be a only part of a more comprehensive scheme of education covering all the activities of our life, in fact a true University - not exactly in European sense - but more like what we had in ancient Nalanda, an educational colony which will be in direct touch with all the requirements of the modern man.Here we are going to have colonies of teachers and students from every provonce of India and though each will retain their own individuality and learn to respect each other's individual differences, they will all be brough upto an atmosphere where the ideal of life would be held far above any feeling of the sect, community or narrow nationality. Here the intellectual life of the community will run parallel with the social and the material."
He explained the economic plan of his father in this letter;
" the economic activities will be just as much a means of education as the lectures in the classrooms. Music and art will have an important place in the programme. the method of education woill be quite different from that followed in our present day universities , specially in India. In every important branch of learning there will be one or two teachers who by the merit of their own research or work attract students to live with them and while learning help in carrying out the work they are engaged in. Whave already got chairs in Buddhists and Jaina Philosophy, in Sanskrit, in he modern languages of India. Nanda lal bose is coming from the next sesion to start the nucleus of a national school of Art . A technical dept. has been opened with mechanical and electrical workshops, a printing house and as weaving school. Land is being acquired to start a farm . A co-operative store has been organised and soon a co-operative Rice mill and oil mill will follow."
Past experience taught them to go slow; " We want he thing to grow and develop slowly, so that it will always be possible to go back or try a new experiment whenever a mistake has been made3.'
Though the Foundation stone was laid in 23 Dec 1918, it took some time to function as an university.
