An admission fee of Rs. 5 is charged to all students of the College Department, who have not passed their Entrance from the High School, and the monthly tuition is Rs. 5. In the School Department the fees vary from Ans. 12 in the lowest class to Rs. 2 in the highest.

An Annual Scholarship, called the " Nimnarayan Scholarship," value Rs. 5 a month, tenable for two years, is given by the Raja of Padama to the student who stands first at the Entrance Examination, from the High School, provided ho continues to read for his F.A. in the College. A boarding house is attached to the school. Fees for other than Chhota Nagpuris Rs. 6 for the upper school and Rs. 5 for the lower, including board and tuition.

XXXII.

Wesleyan College, Bankura.

AFFILIATED, 1907.

This College was established by the Wesleyan Mission, in June 1903, partly because of the success of the Mission High School, known as the Kuchkuchia High School, but chiefly because of the great demand for higher education in this part of Bengal. There being no college, within a radius of sixty miles, and Bankura having a dry and healthy climate, it was considered to be in every respect a most suitable centre for such an institution. The need of a College, in this neighbourhood, has been amply justified by the number of students that have joined during the last four years. Its success has been so gratifying, both numerically and educationally, that the authorities have asked the university to affiliate the institution up to B.A. in Arts, which privilege has been granted. The privilege of affiliation would have been granted at a earlier date but owing to the reorganisation of the University the delay was unavoidable. Though at present, affiliated in Arts only, provision is being made for the teaching of Science and the University will shortly be asked to give permission to teach one or more subjects in Science, the first probably being Chemistry.

Great difficulty has been experienced in obtaining a suitable site for the new additional buildings to be erected, but an excellent property of 115 bighas has at last been acquired. On this site a new College building, houses for Principal and professors and Hostels for Hindu and Christian students will shortly be erected. At present only F.A. classes are being held but as soon as the new College building is completed B.A. classes will be opened.

The aim of the College is to give a sound, healthy education, based on high moral and Christian principles; and to this end cramming is discouraged and Scripture is taught systematically in both School and College. Manly outdoor games are encouraged and the new College recreation ground is largely patronised by both students and boys.

The rate of fees in the College classes is at present Rs. 4 per month; in the school it varies from Rs. 2 to 8 annas.

COLLEGE STAFF.

Principal and Lecturer in English

and Chemistry Vice-Principal and lecturer in English and Mathematics

Rev. John Mitchell, M.A.(Cantab.).

Rev. A. E. Brown, B.A. (Cantab.),

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 Zemindary yielding an estimated rental of Rs. 29,000. In July, 1819, the zemindary 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 Mushin Legacy, amounting to Rs. 51,000, which had previously been expended on the Hughli 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 changed afterwards to Rs. 31,000, was fixed as the annual charge of the Calcutta Madrasah and Colinga Branch School.

The Institution, which is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, consists of three Departments. In the Arabic Department, Arabic and Persian Literature, History, Logic, Rhetoric and Muhammadan Law, are taught. The course extends over six years. The students of the four senior classes are prepared for the corresponding standards of the Central Examination of Bengal Madrasahs, conducted by the Principal of the Calcutta Madrasah as Registrar under the orders of the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal. A fifth-year class was opened in 1903 for giving instruction in Hadis and Tafsir, Arabic Literature, Logic, &c.

Of modern sciences, Arithmetic and Geometry (taught in vernacular) were made in 1874 a compulsory part of the course. Instruction in special classes is provided for those students who desire to take up the study of the English language as an optional subject. The monthly fee is eight annas; average number of students, 522.

The College Department is a second-grade College (established in 1884) and teaches up to the F.A. standard. The monthly fee is Rs. 2; average number, 48. For teaching purposes it had been amalgamated with the Presidency College, since July 1888, the students of the Madrasah College attending the former College for their lectures.

The Anglo-Persian Department into which has been merged the Colinga Branch School, is a Collegiate School, and teaches up to the Entrance Examination. The monthly fee is Re. 1; average number, 300.

In the place of the Colinga Branch School a Middle English School in connection with the Madrasah was started for Muhammadans in 1903 in the northern part of the Town.

Monthly fee, annas 8; average number of students, 117.

There are 18 Muhsin scholarships of Rs. 10, 8, 6, 4 and 3, respectively, awarded in the Arabic Department; 11 Muhsin scholarships of Rs. 5, 4, 3, respectively, in the Anglo-Persian Department; and a Scindia and Bhopal scholarship of Rs. 2-8. There are four Scholarships of Rs. 3, each tenable for the year in M.E. School.

In the College Department there are the following scholarships :-2 Muhsin scholarships and 3 Amir-i-kabir scholarships, each of Rs. 10, and tenable for two years, by students reading for the F.A. Examination. Two scholarships of Rs. 10 each, tenable for two years, are annually awarded to passed students of the Madrasah, continuing their studies for the B.A. degree in a Calcutta College.

The Elliott Madrasah Hostel, built from joint contributions of the Bengal Government and individual Muhammadan donors, has been opened since June, 1899. It occupies a site adjoining the Madrasah building and affords accommodation for 140 Muhammadan students attending either one of the several Madrasah Departments of some other affiliated College in Calcutta. Free boarderships, to the total number of 48, are provided from the donations of Sir Charles Elliott, Nawab of Dacca, Basharat Ali Chaudhari, Nawab of Mursihdabad, Haji Quasim Arif, Moulvi Ali Ahmad, Nawab of Junagarh, National Mohammadan Association, Nawab Saher Bano Begum of Khagra Estate, Shaikh Muhammad Ali, Nawab Vilayat Ali Khan, Muhammadan Literary Society, Prince Sir Jehan Quader, Moulvi Alimuddin.

The College is supported by Government, and is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Eastern Bengal and Assam.

It was originally opened as a Zilla School in 1836 by the General Com mittee of Public Instruction. In January, 1869, it was raised to a Second

teaching up to the Pleadership Examination Standard was also added afterwards.

The monthly tuition fee in the College Department is Rs. 3; and in the Law Department Rs. 5; in the School it varies from Re. 1 in the lowest to Rs. 2-8 in the highest class.

There is an endowment scholarship called Rai Golakchandra Chaudhuri Bahadur's Scholarship, worth Rs. 6 a month, tenable at this College for two years and awardable every year to the successful candidate at the Entrance Examination, who stands next below the Government Junior Scholars from the District of Chittagong.

Attached to the College are a Hindu Hostel and a Buddhist Hostel, which are open to the students of the College and the Collegiate school.

This Institution was founded as a Zilla School in 1834, and was converted into a High School in 1873. Since the Government order of the 16th October, 1877, changing the nomenclature of Government Schools, it has been called the Midnapur Second Grade College. It is supported partly by Government and partly by the interest of an endowment fund, raised by the people of the district of Midnapur, amounting to Rs. 51,000 in Government Securities and Municipal Debentures. The management of the Institution, which had been under the control of the Director of Public Instruction and of a District School Committee, was made over by Government to the Local Municipality on the 1st of July, 1887, on the grant-in-aid system.

It consists of a College and a School Department. Into the former such students are admitted as have passed the University Entrance Examination and intend to work for the First Examination in Arts. The tuition fee in the College Department is Rs. 5 a month, and that in the School Department varies from one rupee in the lowest to three rupees in the highest class. A Law Department was opened in 1873, and was affiliated to the Calcutta University up to the B.L. standard in June, 1892. The rate of fee for this department is Rs. 5 a month.

There is a gymnastic class attached to the College, in which boys are taught exercises according to European and Indian methods. A drill master has been appointed to train the boys in the European system of drill.

Local Scholarships and Medals.

One Luchman Prasad Garga Scholarship of Rs. 5 per mensem (now reduced to Rs. 4), tenable for two years, founded by the Zemindar of Moisadal, of that name, and one Ajodhyaram Khan Scholarship of Rs. 5 per mensem, tenable for two years, founded by Rajah Mahendra Lal Khan, Zemindar of Midnapur, to perpetuate the memory of his father, are awarded annually to the two most deserving students who pass the University Entrance Examination from the Collegiate School, but who fail to gain Government Scholarships, on condition that they prosecute their studies in this College.

One Luchman Prasad Garga gold medal of the value of about Rs. 32, endowed by the Zemindar of Moisadal of that name, is awarded annually to the student from the Midnapur College who passes highest at the F.A. Examination.

Four silver medals of the value of about Rs. 16 each, called the Harrison, the Martin, the Kali Prasanna Ray Chaudhuri, and the Bipin Behari Datta medal, are annually awarded to the best student of the Collegiate School in Mathematics. History, English Composition, and English language and literature respectively. The money for the Martin Medal Fund was subscribed by the Bengali friends and admirers of the late R. L. Martin, Esq., Inspector of Schools, to commemorate his name. The rest were endowed by the donors whose names they bear. There is another silver medal called the " Abhaya Charan Medal," which is annually awarded to the candidate who obtains the highest marks in History and Geography among the successful Entrance candidates from the Collegiate School. The money for this medal was subscribed by the friends and students of the late Babu Abhaya Charan Bose, Head Master of the Collegiate School.

A temporary hostel, with material help from Government, has been opened here with effect from June, 1906.

Principal

INSTRUCTIVE STAFF.

R. L. Maitra, M.A.

Lecturer in Logic and Physiology

Lecturer in Mathematics, Physics

and Chemistry

Ishanchandra Ghose, M.A.

Jogendranath Hazra, M.A.

Head Master, Collegiate School and Upendranath Chandra, B.A.

Lecturer, College Department