INSTRUCTIVE STAFF. Lady Principal and Professor Professors Lecturers Lecturer of Sanskrit Head Master Head Mistress and Lecturer Second Mistress Mrs. Kumudini Das, B.A. Besides two Masters, four Mistresses, and Pundits. XXIII. Victoria College, Cooch Behar. This College was founded in commemoration of Her Majesty's Jubilee and was opened by H.H. The Maharaja of Cooch-Behar on June 15th, 1888. It is maintained entirely at the expense of the State. Instruction is given up to the M.A. Standard. With the exception of the Law classes, for which a tuition fee of Rs. 3 per mensem is charged, all instruction is gratuitous. A gold medal of the value of Rs. 100 is awarded annually to the student of the Victoria College who stands highest in the M.A. Examination. A scholarship of the value of Rs. 25 per month, tenable for one year only, is annually awarded under certain conditions, to the first graduate in order of merit from the College, who intends to read for the M.A. Degree. A scholarship of the value of Rs. 20 and another of Rs. 15 per month, tenable for two years, are awarded to the two first successful students from the College at the F.A. Examination. Attached to the College, and under the control of the Principal, are the Rajgan Boarding Institution (for the natives of the State), and the College Boarding Institution accommodating 70 students, at a monthly charge of Rs. 6 per head. The Jenkins School is attached to the College and is under the control of the Principal. The State Library is accessible to the advanced students, and forms an extensive collection of valuable works in different departments of literature. The College Library contains books bearing on the University Course, as well as standard works in the different subjects of study. There is a Gymnasium attached to the College, in which the Students of the Jenkins School and the College are taught exercises according to European and Indian methods, and exercises in Drill have also been introduced. This College was originally founded as a H.E. School by the late Babu Ram Rattan Roy, the local Zemindar. It was raised to the status of a second grade College in 1886, and to that of a first grade College in 1890. There are, however, at present no B.A. classes in the Institution. The College building is a splendid pucca one, situated in the midst of a vast lawn, which affords good space for all sorts of manly exercises. The building of the Boarding House attached to the College is also a pucca one which, when the improvements contemplated to be effected in it are completed, will prove an attractive residence to students. All the Professors, Teachers, and Students of the College and the Collegiate School receive free Medical aid, provided by the descendants of the founder. The Vernacular School attached to the College has been incorporated with the Collegiate School, and the whole institution, in all the departments, is under the control and supervision of the Principal. The rate of fees in the College classes is Rs. 3 per month, while the rates in the School classes vary from Rs. 2 in the highest four classes to 4 annas in the lowest, so that no class of people need find it beyond their means to give their children the benefits of an English education at this Institution. The Library of the College is well furnished with all the necessary or important works in English Literature, and the Laboratory is in a satisfactory condition. There are ample funds at the disposal of the authorities of the College for making any improvements or additions that may be required, and the descendants of the noble founder of the Institution are ever ready to do all that may be necessary for the efficiency of the College. The Professors, including the Principal, are not only always accessible to students but are ever ready to help the boys in all sorts of ways. INSTRUCTIVE STAFF. Principal and Professor of English Literature Professor of Mathematics, History Professor of Science and Mathematics Gopal Chandra Maitra, M.A. Amritalál Ray, B.A. Upendrachandra Ghose, M.A. This Institution was founded as a Middle Class School in the year 1883 under the patronage of the late Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur. The number on its rolls, however, rapidly increasing, it was, within two months of its foundation, raised to the status of a Higher Class Institution, with an endowment of Rs. 150 a month settled upon it by its patron and founder. Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur. In the year 1887, in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her Gracious Majesty's reign, it was raised to the rank of a Second Grade College, funds for the maintenance of the Institution in its higher status having been provided by Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur. In 1890 it was raised to the standard of a First Grade College, and a Law Department was added to it the same year. The total endowment, as it now stands, is Rs. 450 a month, of which Rs. 250 is the grant of Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur, Rs. 100 of Mr. Deep Narain Singh, the son of the founder and patron of the Institution, and another Rs. 100, the grant of the enlightened and public-spirited Kumars of Banelli. 2. The tuition fee in the General Department of the College for the M.A. Class is Rs. 6; for the B.A. classes Rs. 5; and for the F.A. classes Rs. 4. In the Law Department, students going through the B.L. classes have to pay Rs. 6, and those studying for the Pleadership Examination Rs. 5 a month, as fee. The admission fee in either of the departments is equal in amount to the tuition fee in each class. A like fee is charged on students in either department at the time of their withdrawal. 3. The College enjoys a Scholarship of Rs. 10 a month tenable for two years, granted to it by its endower and designated " Bayley Scholarship." This Scholarship, according to the wishes of the son of its endower, Mr. Deep Narayan Singh, has now been divided into two Scholarships of Rs. 6 and Rs. 4 respectively, each of which carries also a half-free studentship with it. They are awarded to the two best boys of the successful Entrance candidates of the Collegiate School who fail to obtain Junior Scholarships, provided they continue their studies in the College. It owns further three gold medals and a silver medal. Of the three gold medals, one which is the grant of the late lamented Babu Romanath Ghose, Zemindar, Calcutta. is designed for award to the student who distinguishes himself the most among the candidates from the College that come off successful in the B.A. Examination; the other, the grant of Nawab Begum Shahar Banoo Saheba of Khagra, is intended for the best Muhammadan student among the successful B.A. candidates from the College; and the third, the grant of Babus Raghunandan Prasad and Judunandan Prasad, Zemindars, Golaghat, Bhagalpur, is intended for the best Behari student among the successful F.A. candidates from the College. The silver medal, the gift of Syed Muhammed Nasir Khan, a local Zemindar, is designed to be awarded Behari candidates from the Collegiate School. There are twenty Free Studentships in the General Department. 4. The Institution is under the control of a Committee, the President of which is Mr. Deep Narayan Singh, son of the late Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur, the endower of the Institution. It owns a spacious building, constructed at the cost of the endower and his son, Mr. Deep Narayan Singh. It has also a Boarding House attached to it, which was erected partly at the cost of the endower, partly out of the savings of the Institution. 5. The College also possesses a library, which contains books bearing on the University course as well as most of the standard works in different. subjects of study, and a Laboratory. Professor of English Literature and Professor of Physical Science Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Narendranath Ray, M.A. Ishanchandra Misra, M.A. Saradamohan Bhattacharyya, M.A. Professor of Chemistry and Mathema-Hemchandra Datta Gupta, M.A., tics .. Professor of Mathematics Professor of Sanitary Science Professor of Sanskrit Professor of Persian Law Lecturers F.C.S (Lond.) Chinta Haran Ray, M.A. Srischandra Mukerjee, M.B. Ramgopal Misra. Maulavi Abdul Majid. Law Department. Nibaran Chandra Mukerjee, M.A. B.L. Harendralal Roy, B.L. List of Principals. 1887 Hariprasanna Mukerjee, M.A., B.L. XXVI. Behar National College, Bankipur. AFFILIATED, 1892. This Institution was started as a higher class English School teaching up to the Entrance standard, in the year 1883, by Babu Bisseswar Singh, Zemindar of Kulharya, in the district of Shahabad, and Pleader, practising at Patna. It was founded with the object of a wider diffusion of high English education among the people of Behar, and of bringing it within the reach of men of limited means. The success which attended the first year of the infant Institution encouraged the proprietor to raise it to the status of a College, teaching up to the standard of the F.A. Examination, and it was affiliated to the Calcutta University with the name of the Behar National College in September, 1889. In the year 1892, this Institution was raised to the B.A. Standard, and a Law Class was added to it in which instruction is given for the Pleadership and B.L. Examinations. In November, 1900, a fund under the name of "Students' Mutual Aid Fund" was started for helping poor students with stipends, books, medical attendance, etc. The expenses are met by subscriptions from Students, Professors, and the Proprietor of the College, and from such outsiders as have sympathy for the movement. Advanced religious instruction for Hindus as well as Mahomedans has been provided for in all the College Classes. SCHOLARSHIPS. (1) Two Scholarships, each of Rs. 10 a month, tenable for two years, are awarded to the students who pass the Entrance Examination in the first division, standing first and second from the Collegiate School, and continue their studies in the College. (2) One Scholarship of Rs. 14 a month, tenable for two years, is awarded to the student who passes the F.A. Examination in the first division, standing first from the College, and continues his studies in the College. Babu K. K. Singh, B.A., B.L., has promised a gold medal to the student who stands first at the next B.A. Examination among the candidates sent up from the B. N. College. This Institution was founded as a Higher Class English School, under the name of the "University Institution," on the 2nd June, 1893. The name, however, was shortly changed, and the Institution was recognised by the University of Calcutta under the name of the "Central Institution," which |