Statement exhibiting the Number of Students studying different languages on the 1st April 1854. The following Report was submitted by Mr. K. H. Stephen, Deputy Magistrate of Serampore: "In consequence of the various pressing duties of the Secretary and his recent appointment to the Sub-division of Serampore, and there being no other Member of the Committee, the school was not visited during the last Session. t "The total amount of schooling fees realized during the last 18 months is Rupees 911-8, the average Schooling monthly collection being Rupees 50-10 which exhibits an improvement in the revenue of Fees. the school. "The late Head Master having been transferred to the Bogra School, Babu Koonjobehary ChuckroChanges. butty has been appointed in his place. "The duties of the Head Master are the same as those of the Head Masters of other schools, in addition Sugges- to which he has to pay a portion of his attentions. tion to the Correspondence Department. The duties of the Second Master are of a difficult nature, to perform which, so as to do justice to all the boys individually under his tuition, none but a very energetic teacher and one who has the progress of the students in view, though it be at the neglect of his health, is able. He has to teach two classes, viz., the second and third, slightly assisted by the Head Master, who teaches the First Division of the Second Class only in Mathematics. "The duties of the Third Master are of no less important character. He also has two classes under his charge both of which are large, and one, viz., the last class, contains numerous divisions composed of young boys, (beginners,) each of whom occupies the teacher no less time than a more advanced boy. But the numerical strength of this last class has of late been so great that another Master is, in order that the efficiency of this important class may be secured, indispensably necessary. Donations for Prizes. "No donation for prizes was made during the last session. "A valuable addition of choice books was made to the library in the last year, but a number of volumes is in such a worn-out and piece-meal Library. state that immediate binding is required. "The School-building is an elegant, wellSchool-build- constructed house and kept in a very good state, but is too small for a school of this ing. magnitude." The following is the Report of Mr. Graves, the Head Mr. Graves's Report. Master of the Hooghly College, on his inspection visit to the School : "I have the honor to report that, in conformity with instructions received through the Principal of the Hooghly College, I examined the Barrackpore School on the 5th and 6th June. "The number of boys at present in the School is 117, being about one-third more than when I last visited the school in October 1852. "The boys are distributed into four classes, as follows: First Class,. Third Class,. ... SA. Fourth Class, {B. 9 17 20 35 36 117 "The present monthly amount of schooling fees is 76 Rupees 12 annas, against Rupees 48-8 in 1852. "The pecuniary monthly resources of the school are Durbar Fund,.. Schooling, Expenditure, Monthly surplus, 80 0 0 76 12 O 156 12 0 108 0 0 48 12 0 "I would respectfully suggest that a portion of the surplus be appropriated to the employment of an additional Master, as the present Second and Third Masters have to teach 108 boys between them, and two classes of the school are remaining idle for half the day. "There is but one long room available for the purposes of the school, and I consider its space to be decidedly insufficient for so large a number of boys. This inconvenience might perhaps be remedied by granting the Head Master a small allowance for house rent, and converting the quarters now occupied by him in the school-building, into class rooms. The books read by the first Class are those included in the Junior Scholarship course, while the second Class is reading the same books as the first Class, Junior Division, of the Collegiate Schools, so that there is an interval of about three years between the first and second Classes. "Two boys of the first Class were allowed to be candidates for Junior Scholarships. On the subject I beg to make an extract from my report of 1852. "I would, with all deference to the higher authorities, express my opinion that in a school of this description, it is disadvantageous to its general welfare, that the time of the Head Master should be occupied in preparing one or two boys, for the Junior Scholarship examination. *I would recommend that the course of instruction be limited to that of the Junior Divisions of the Collegiate Schools, and that one or two of the most promising boys be annually transferred as free students to the Senior Division of the Hooghly College, this privilege being confined to boys who, in the opinion of the Examiner, are likely to become eventually junior scholars.' "I am happy that a suggestion made by me in 1850, and repeated in 1852 has at length been carried into effect. The boys are now taught to write. This enabled me to apply to the greater number the test of requiring them to write from dictation passages from the books they had read, and so far as I can speak from my own experience, there is no test equal to it for junior students. "I beg to annex a tabular statement of the result of the examination." |