NEW DELHI: As Delhi University completes its 100th year of existence, the vision laid out by one of its pre-eminent vice-chancellors, Sir Maurice Gwyer, of the institution being a “field of ambition” has only gained more prominence.
In August 1939, Sir Maurice had said in a memorandum to the government of India: “It (DU) should be a field of ambition, in which all classes, parties and creeds may labour together in a labour of love, working harmony for a common cause… Will the university command the lively sympathy and assistance of the public and be enabled to secure its place as a great ‘all-India’ institution?”
