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Side by side with intensive study I was responsible for starting tennis and hockey clubs in the Law College. Our professors were an interesting lot, but none of them had been a success in the profession .
Our first Principal, Golak Nath Chatterjee was a fine specimen of a gentleman. He was succeeded by Rai Bahadur Kanwar Sain, a man of learning and culture, affable in manners, and above all, a great musician. He was always exquisitely dressed. After retiring from the Law College, he became Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir State and a Privy Counciller for Central Indian States,and Judicial Minister, Jodhpur. When I was practising at the High Court Bar, he became my client in the suit which my old teacher, Professor Ruchi Ram filed for the removal of his co-trustees from the Tribune Trust.
K. C. Chatterjee was another professor in the college who taught Hindu Law. All he did was to dictate notes from a notebook prepared by him. Lala Jagan Nath and a few others used to sit on the last bench of the class room and we spent the time gossiping quietly when Chatterjee was busy dictating notes. None of us excepting Jagan Nath possessed a notebook. Even his notebook did not contain notes dictated by Chatterjee but caricatures of professors and fellow students. One day Chatterjee somehow discovered that I was not taking down the notes that he was dictating and he took me to task for not doing so. At the spur of the moment and without any thought I replied βThey are not worth taking.β Naturally my rudeness upset the quiet, well-meaning, mild tempered Chatterjee. He ordered me to walk to the other side of the room and sit on another bench. The next day I went back to my usual seat by the side of my friend, Jagan Nath, and still without a note book. Chatterjee took no more notice of me.
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