From The Hindu Archives, March 30, 1926: Calcutta commercial institute

March 29: Presiding over the prize distribution ceremony at the Government Commercial Institute, this afternoon, the Hon’ble Mr. J.W.A Bell, President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce, said that in a conservative country, like India, it was always difficult for a comparatively new institution to find its way into public confidence. This Institute filled a want in the educational system of India; but it was desirable in a great industrial country, which India was becoming, that there should be an institution in which education was imparted, along strictly commercial and industrial lines.