"As General Jacob has said, the service of the forces of India in the Great War won for the rising generation of Indians the right to hold the King's Commission, and the path to the highest ranks in the Indian Army is now open to India's young men. Never has a fairer or more honourable field been displayed before them ; and I look with confidence to young India to prove worthy of the great opportunities won for them by soldiers of an older India in the hour of supreme trial.

"From my own experience I may say that it is the first few blows on the anvil of life that give the human weapon the set and temper which carries it through life's battle. It is the pride of the English Public Schools that they have supplied the early training of those British Officers, who with the aid of the gallant body of Indian Officers, have for years led and guided the fighting men of India to victory on many fields.

"It is in order to give you the same opportunities and advantages that this College has been established. The young men of India, who wish to go later to Sandhurst, and who aspire to hold a King's Commission, will receive their early training here.

"I trust that those who are responsible for the administration of this College will keep before them not only the great ideals of the Public Schools of England, but will also foster and maintain the fine Old Indian spirit of mutual reverence which bound together the Guru and his Chela.

"To those who aspire to the honour of King's Commission, I say: Work hard, play hard, live upright and honest lives; maintain untarnished the martial traditions of India's fighting men; keep unsullied the chivalry and honour which has been handed down to you as a heritage by the Indian Princes and warriors of old, by the Indian Officers of the past and by the British Officers who have trained the Indian soldier in peace and led him in war.

"I shall always follow with interest the fortune of a College which is to bear my name. I hope that its future record will make me proud of it."