Allahabad High School. AFFILIATED, 1869. This Institution was founded in 1861, and is conducted upon the principles of the Church of England, but it is made available for the children of European and Eurasian parents of all denominations; instruction in the distinctive formularies of the Church not being compulsory. The School is under the auspices of the Calcutta Diocesan Board of Education, and is managed by a Local Committee, of which the Civil Chaplain is ex-officio member. Boys are prepared for the Entrance Examination of the University of Calcutta, and for the Thomason College, Roorkee. The fees for day-scholars are Rs. 5 per month, and for boarders Rs. 25 and Rs. 20, according to age. In 1870-71, Sir William Muir, then Lieutenant-Governor, acceding to a generally expressed wish, invited the co-operation of the Chiefs and Feudatories of the North-Western Provinces and territories adjacent in founding a Central College at Allahabad, the seat of Government. His proposal having been warmly responded to, the College was temporarily opened in a hired building on the 1st July, 1872. This Institution admits all classes of students who have passed the University Entrance Examination, and is affiliated in Arts and Law. The Course of instruction embraces the University requirements for degrees in those branches. În order also to meet the needs of those who, by their attainments, are unable to compete for the High Court Pleaderships and the University B. L. Degree, there is an Urdu Law Class for students seeking to pass the High Court Examination for Pleaderships in the subordinate Courts of the Provinces, Oudh, and the Punjab. Oriental classes will shortly be added to the General Department, to carry on those who have passed the middle class vernacular examination, which corresponds in all respects to the Uni versity Matriculation test in English, to another equally answering to the University First Arts standard. A handsome stone structure is being erected for the accommodation of the College on a site immediately to the north of the Alfred Park, and donations to the amount of more than 14 lakhs of rupees have already been received towards its cost. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor-General, in December, 1873. A fund of sixty-three thousand rupees in Government four per cent. notes, endowed by H. H. the Nawab of Rampore, the Maharajahs of Vizianagram, Rewah, Punnah, Chirkaree, and others, furnishes fourteen local Scholarships, ranging in value from twenty to ten rupees monthly. These are tenable with Government Scholarships. There are also four minor stipends. The late Nawab Ali Azghar Khan, C. S. I., of Rampore, by a waqf nama dated 13th November, 1872, endowed scholarships to the value of Rs. 50 monthly "to be given to those students who pass in Arabic." INSTRUCTIVE STAFF. General Department. Profr. of History and Philosophy ... ... A. S. Harrison, B A. Maulvi Zakaullah. Law Department. ... C. H. Hill, B.A. Cuttack College. AFFILIATED, 1876. This College is supported by Government, and is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Lower Provinces. It was opened as a Zilla School in 1841, raised to a High School in 1868, and to the status of a full College in February 1876. Instruction is given up to the B. A. Degree Examination of the Calcutta University. Students pay a monthly fee of Rs. 4. Rajshahye College. AFFILIATED, 1878. The College is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Lower Bengal. It is a Government Institution, originally established as a Zilla School in 1836. In 1873, it was raised to a Second Grade College (High School), and in 1878, to a First Grade College, the additional expenditure on this accouut being met partly by a state contribution and partly by local subscriptions and the proceeds of an estate granted in perpetuity to Government by Raja Hara Nath Roy Bahadur of Dubalhati. Instruction is given up to the standard of the B. A. Examination of the Calcutta University. The students of the College classes pay a monthly fee of Rs. 3. And seven other Assistant Masters, two Pandits, and a Persian Teacher. Trinity College, Kandy, Ceylon. This Institution which was established by the Church Missionary Society in 1872, with the special object of teaching the higher classes of the up-country Singhalese, is now affiliated up to the standard for the B.A. Degree. New Lecture-rooms and Dormitories have been erected, partly by a donation from the Church Missionary Society, and partly by local subscriptions. There is accommodation for about 24 boarders and a Resident Assistant Tutor. Instruction is given in English, Latin, Mathematics, and other necessary branches of a liberal education. Metropolitan Institution, Calcutta. AFFILIATED, 1879. This Institution was originally founded in 1859, under the name of the Calcutta Training School, by Babus Thakurdas Chakravarti, Madhava Chandra Dhara, Patitpavana Sen, Ganga Charan Sen, Jadava Chandra Palit, and Baistava Charan Addi, with the late Babu Shama Charan Mullick as its patron. It continued up to 1861 under the management of a committee of native gentlemen, consisting of the founders and a few other additional members. In 1864 the management devolved entirely on Pandit Iswarachandra Vidyasagar, and the present name of the Institution was substituted for the Calcutta Training School. The Institution consists of three departments-a College Department, a Preparatory School, and a Vernacular Department. It has also a branch Preparatory School at Shampukur, which was opened in January 1874. College Department. In this Department, the course of instruction is adapted to the requirements of the University for Degrees in Arts. There is an admission fee of Rs. 5; and the monthly tuition fee is Rs. 3. This Department imparts instruction up to the University Entrance Course. There is an admission fee of Rs. 3; and the monthly tuition fee is Rs. 3. There are twenty-one Teachers, six Pandits, and two Superintendents in this Department. Vernacular Department. This Department teaches boys Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic in Bengali. The admission fee is Re. 1; and the tuition fee is Re. 1 per month. There are three Pandits and one Superintendent in this Department. Gauhati High School. This School is supported by Government, and is under the control of the Inspector of Schools in Assam. In 1834, a Zilla School was opened at Gauhati for giving instruction in English and Bengali. This Zilla School was raised in May, 1866, to a High School, when it was affiliated in Arts to the Calcutta University up to the First Examination in Arts. In 1870 it was affiliated in Law, and a Law Lecturer was appointed. INSTRUCTIVE STAFF. Head Master 2nd ... ditto 3rd ditto Head Pandit ... ... ... Lakshmi Narayan Das, MA., B.L. Dina Nath Sen, B.A. Pandit Nabakumar Bhattacharyya. And six English Teachers and one Pandit. Calcutta Madrasah. AFFILIATED, 1867. This institution was founded by Warren Hastings in 1781, with the view of enabling Muhammadans of Bengal to acquire such a knowledge of Arabic literature and law as would qualify them for the Judicial Department, and was endowed by him with a zamindari yielding an estimated rental of Rs. 29,000. In July, 1819, the zamindari was resumed, and the rental was commuted to a fixed annual charge on the treasury of Rs. 30,000. In 1873, the interest of the Muhammad Muhsin Legacy, amounting to Rs. 51,000, which had hitherto been expended on the Hooghly College, was set free and was devoted to Muhammadan education in Bengal. Several new Madrasahs were founded; and the sum of Rs. 35,000, plus the schooling fees, was fixed as the annual charge of the Calcutta Madrasah and the Colingah Branch School. The Institution consists of two departments and a Branch School. In the Arabic Department, Arabic and Persian literature, logic, rhetoric, and Muhammadan law are taught. The Course extends over six years. Of modern sciences, arithmetic (taught in the vernacular) was made compulsory in 1874, and arrangements have been made to allow students to take up some of the English subjects taught in the Anglo-Persian Department. The monthly fee is eight annas; average number of students, 180. The Anglo-Persian Department is a collegiate school, and teaches up to the Entrance Examination. The monthly fee is Re. 1; average number, 380. The Branch School is a middle class English school, and has an Oriental Department attached to it, which prepares students |