Word: rutnam
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rutnam, A.M., gave an interesting address in the Living Room of the Union last night under the auspices of the Harvard Political Club, on "Present Political Conditions in India." H. M. Gilmore '08, president of the Political Club, presided and introduced the speaker. After the close of the address, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, Gilmore appointed a committee of the Political Club to co-operate with Democratic political clubs in other colleges, looking toward the formation of an intercollegiate Democratic league. The members constituting the Harvard committee are S. Bowles, Jr., '08, H. S. Blair...
...Rutnam appeared in the picturesque native garb of his country, then gave a discussion of the conditions in which India is placed at the present time through the neglect and oppression of the English government...
...state in which India is placed at the present time, Mr. Rutnam said, is the same as that in which America was in relation to England at the time of the Revolution. "Taxation without representation" is the complaint of the Hindoos, but as the present 305,000,000 population of India exceeds the 3,000,000 of this country in colonial times, so does the greatness of the injustice in India exceeds injustice of the American oppression...
...Rutnam, A.M., president of Central College, Colombo, Ceylon, will deliver a lecture in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock, on "Present Political Conditions in India." The lecture, which is the first of the Political Club lectures of the year, will be open to all members of the Union...
...Rutnam is a graduate of the University of Madras and a recipient of the degree of A.M. from Princeton. He has also spent several years in Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a Hindoo, one of the few who have received an English education. In his native country he is a leader in the movement for native rule, and as editor of the Ceylon University Association, and as committeeman of the Ceylon National Association is well qualified to speak on the present political situation in India...