Statement exhibiting the Number, Religion and Caste of the Pupils on the 1st May 1854.

Statement exhibiting the Number of Scholarship-holders and Pay and Free Pupils on the 1st May 1854.

Scholarship- Free Scho- Pay Free

holders.

lars. Pupils. Pupils.

Total. Remarks.

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169

16

185

Statement exhibiting the Number of Students studying different languages on the 1st May 1854.

The amount of Schooling Fees collected from October 1852 to 30th April 1854 is Rupees 1,841-8 as detailed below:

The following changes have occurred in the Instructive Establishment during the session. The late Changes. Head Master, Babu Prosonocoomar Ghose, having resigned his post in October 1853, Babu Choitunchurn Dutt was appointed on the 12th December 1853. Babu Hurrokally Mookerjea, Head Master, Initiatory Department, having resigned his place on the 26th June 1853, consequent on his receiving an appointment in the new Hindu Metropolitan College, Babu Goluckchunder Dey, Third Master in the Juvenile Department, was appointed to fill up the vacancy.

With the salary attached to the place which Babu Goluckchunder Dey held in the Juvenile Department, and a sum sanctioned by the Committee out of the Government Grant, a new office of 45 Rupees was created, and Babu Sriputty Mookerjee, who was Head Master of the Jehanabad School, was appointed to it on the 26th June 1853. Babu Soorjeekoomar Mookerjea, assistant in the Initiatory Department, having resigned his place, it was filled up by Moheschunder Bhottacharjea, an ex-student of Seal's College, on the 1st April 1853.

The General Examination of the school was conducted by the Reverend Mr. Morgan, Rector of the Parental Academy, and Messrs. Smith and Miller.

Measures have been adopted to provide a suitable building of a permanent character, for the school; and it is expected that it will be completed in the

Building. course of a year.

Inspection Report.

Mr. Principal Sutcliffe reports on his inspection visit to the School:

"The distance of this school from Calcutta, and the absence of all accommodation for a night's stay, precluded my passing more than four or five hours in the different classes. The system of teaching being unlike any which prevails in the Government Schools, I spent the morning in merely looking on, whilst the Head Master of the Initiatory Department taught the united classes on his own plan. On my arrival, the boys were drawn up in line in the play-ground, and they marched into the school in the most orderly manner, repeating slowly and distinctly a lesson on the value of improving time, after which, the master, at my request, commenced with a "Lesson on Objects." This was followed by a lesson on Natural History from printed cards and afterwards simultaneous Reading and Arithmetic. It is unnecessary for me to mention more than that the boys generally acquitted themselves very creditably, and that the master had taken pains to perfect them in their several parts. The Department of which I now speak, is called the Initiatory Department, and contains 84 boys, of ages varying from seven to 13. They form one class in Natural History, Lessons on Objects, and the repetition of verses, and are thus occupied five hours weekly. It occurs at once to a visitor that the boys of this department are in various stages of progress, and that if there be on the establishment a sufficiency of masters to teach them, when classified, it would be a preferable method to push them on in their studies, instead of confining them to a level, attainable by boys three or four years younger. This is indeed the weak point of the system as carried out at Jonye. The object of Mr. Stow's system is to teach numbers in their mother-tongue cheaply. The Jonye School contains 150 boys; and there are six masters, receiving in the aggregate, 173 rupees a month; an establishment large enough to teach well some 20 or 30 more on what I may call the separate system. The boys, too, are learning a foreign language, the acquisition of which is, I presume, the chief object of the school. However well, therefore, they may acquit themselves in an examination conducted expressly to test their progress in a few particular branches of a particular system, the conviction forces itself irresistibly on a visitor, that with such materials and an ample establishment of masters, a better and more solid education may be imparted. The boys are accustomed to read simultaneously, and, generally speaking, read very correctly. Greater progress should have been made in Arithmetic, and if an hour or two weekly were devoted to writing by the classes in the Initiatory Department, it would be an improvement. Only some half dozen boys in

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this department could write their names on a slate. The Training System has attractions for very young boys, and amongst such may be most advantageously used, but I certainly prefer the system of the Government Schools. If the energy required to give a lesson on Objects to two or three classes simultaneously, were expended in teaching a class in the usual way, the boys would make rapid progress. The discipline, &c., of this department appeared to me to be very good; and to speak generally, I am quite satisfied that the masters have brought up the classes as well as the system on which they are working will admit. The boys are young and promising, and there are all the elements of a good District School. I spent the afternoon in examining the three classes of the Juvenile Department in Reading, Explanation and Arithmetic. The Reading was tolerably good, Explanations middling; in Arithmetic they are deficient, as might be expected in a newly-established school. There are many boys in this department, whose age is unsuitable, and much cannot be expected from them. One boy will, I think, pass a creditable Junior Scholarship Examination in 1855. This department has laboured under some disadvantages during the past year. The Head Master, Prosonocoomar Ghose, having accepted a post in the Rajah of Burdwan's service, no other appointment took place for some months. The present Head Master joined the school a month ago. He was formerly employed in the Barnagore School, but during the last two years, he has not been engaged in teaching. The Second Master joined the school six months ago, having had, I believe, but little previous experience as a teacher. There are no certificate-holders among the present Masters. I hope, however, as vacancies occur, that preference will be given to candidates who have passed the Teachership examination. The Schooling Fees realize on an average 90 rupees a month; this, with the 100 Rupees granted by the Council, is ample to maintain the school in an efficient state. The house at present occupied by the school is inconveniently small. Of this, however, the Committee expect shortly, (six months hence,) to be deprived, and as little progress has been made towards the erection of the new building, it will be necessary to put up with whatever accommodations the village will afford for some time. The estimate for the new building is 4,000 rupees; at present half this sum only is collected and the Committee are trusting to the liberality of Babu Ramnarain Mookerjee in providing for the deficiency. An addition to the school furniture is also required. There is not a single writing-desk in the school; temporary desks may easily be fastened to the walls without encroaching much upon the scanty room for the classes."