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An Outstanding Mansion: \u201cRegina Walauwwa\u201d become \u201cCollege House\u201d-by Yomal Senerath-Yapa<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Yomal Senerath-Yapa,\u00a0in\u00a0Sunday Times,<\/em>\u00a08 May 2022, where the title runs thus:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cEnduring Symbol of Colombo University\u201d \u2026 with a sub-line reading \u201c<\/strong>A new coffee-table book maps the beginnings of the country\u2019s academia in 1921\u201c<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The majestic College House down Thurstan Road \u2013\u00a0 a whimsical marriage between an English country house and a Maharajah\u2019s haveli with its conical roofs, turrets and slender carved wooden columns, is for the historian a relic of a bygone age. Originally called \u2018Regina Walawwa\u2019, in time the house would be renamed College House and become the icon of the Colombo University.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prof Sandagomi Coperahewa<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Shravika Amarasekara<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Built by Thomas Henry Arthur de Soysa for his wife, she would sadly never preside over the mansion or walk down its sweeping staircase, as she died before the building\u2019s completion in 1912.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was in 2017 that Sandagomi Coperahewa, Chair Professor of Sinhala at the University of Colombo, suggested to the then Vice Chancellor Lakshman Dissanayake, a volume on this building that has seen so much, from weddings so grand London\u2019s society pages would write about the bride\u2019s trousseau and the wedding cake, to being home to the island\u2019s very first university.<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-edited by Prof. Coperahewa and Dr. Shravika Damunupola Amarasekara of the English Department,\u00a0\u2018College House: The Cradle of Sri Lanka\u2019s University Education\u2019\u00a0<\/em>is a handsome coffee table volume thick with previously unpublished images from the building\u2019s past.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The book is divided into four parts; the first dealing with when it was a family home; the second when it was the University College and the University of Ceylon; the third when it became the administrative hub of the University of Colombo and the fourth dealing with its architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first part is included a cameo of the world that gave birth to Regina Walawwa, written by the architectural historian Prof. Anoma Pieris, herself of the de Soysa family. Arthur and his brothers wanted not to be ensconced in replicas of the English stately home like their father, the famous philanthropist Sir Charles Henry de Soysa. It was, as Anoma shows, a high point of the Karave elite trying their hand at indigenisation. Regina herself wore the newly fashionable sari (albeit with fan, gloves, brooches, frills and court shoes) and their mansions had names like walawwa and Lakshmigiri.<\/span><\/p>\n

The de Soysas, especially Anoma\u2019s father L.S.D. Pieris, opened up the family archives generously, revealing such emblematic photos as Regina\u2019s funeral where the family keeps a stiff upper lip around the body, and Regina\u2019s daughter Violet\u2019s epoch-making wedding, the bride in sari, with orange blossom and white heather in her wreath in the fashion of English royal brides,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Arthur and Regina de Soysa and celebrated for seven days in keeping with eastern pomp.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Prof. Coperahewa says that collating pictures and putting together the saga of College House took years. Dr. Amarasekara adds that particularly elusive was the period after 1952 and the shift to Peradeniya. Old university magazines provided a regular record but these required frequent visits to the Peradeniya University Library, whither they had all been taken when the University of Ceylon shifted to Peradeniya in 1952.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book maps the beginnings of our academia; how in 1921, E.B. Denham bought the Walawwa from an Arthur de Soysa much depleted financially, and began the \u2018Ceylon University College\u2019 with just 12 teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n

From there on begins a magnificent saga, of how both the arts and the sciences flourished just like the gargantuan maara trees down Thurstan Road with pioneering local orientalists like G.P. Malalasekere, the Rev. Suriyagoda Sumangala, M.D. Ratnasuriya and Ediriweera Sarachchandra as bilingual pundits who set enviable standards; and \u2018western\u2019 scholars like Lyn Ludowyk and S. A. Pakeman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Siyath Gunewardene has contributed a chapter on \u2018The Ceylon University College Contribution to Science and Mathematics\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The University College became the University of Ceylon in 1942, with Ivor Jennings, the charismatic Cambridge man, who then \u2018led the way to Peradeniya\u2019, thus putting an end to \u201cthe Colombo chapter of the University of Ceylon\u201d- \u201cthe end of an era and the time of new beginnings\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the third part of the book, it is at the \u2018dowagerhood\u2019 of the College House we look where it has become the administrative hub of the brand new University of Colombo.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sole later addition to College House is the new Senate Hall, seamlessly merged with the original building thanks to architect Ashley de Vos, in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Ashley is dubious about these \u201csalad (s) of widely differing parts of buildings\u201d created by the Victorian and Edwardian nouveaux \u2013\u00a0 \u201ca hotchpotch of ideas never holistic but fused together using the best of materials\u201d \u2013\u00a0 he was most scrupulous about preserving what he calls \u201can important contributory phase in the chain of evolution of the architectural typology in Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While the initial idea was to demolish outhouses and sacrifice the\u00a0meda midula<\/em>\u00a0(inner courtyard) to make place for the new hall, Ashley opted to have the Senate Hall placed above the outhouse to the north.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book is also interspersed with reminiscences of people who had known these corridors intimately \u2013 from Premasara Epasinghe who grew up there to former registrars and secretaries to the VC.<\/span><\/p>\n

The editors are grateful to Chamini Kulathunga for research assistance, also Panduka de Silva for the photography and Malaka Lalanajeewa for the design and illustrations; both beautifully capturing the leafy campus and the vintage air of this protected heritage building now over a century old.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Further Embellishments from THUPPAHI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A Sketch of Regina Walauwwa from the De Soysa and Pieris Mss Collection via Rupa De Soysa\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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CH de Soysa \u2026. and \u201cUniversity College\u201d in more recent times<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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University of Ceylon class of 1947 pictured in front of \u201cCollege House\u201d \u2026 and some more shots of \u201cCollege House\u201d\u00a0 in the second half of the 20th century<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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