4. Albert College. AFFILIATED, 1881. This Institution was founded in the year 1872 with the object of imparting education to students of the middle classes at moderate and convenient rates. The College has been a self-supporting one from the beginning, being maintained entirely from fees. It consists of two departments, the English and the Vernacular, containing eleven classes. The College Department was opened in 1871, teaching up to the standard of the First Examination in Arts In the Vernacular Classes both English and Bengali are taught, but the latter is used as the principal medium of instruction. Besides the branches rendered compulsory by University requirements, the College insists upon regular instruction in the principles of ethics, separate hours being set apart for lectures on that subject. There are classes also for music and elementary science. Monthly statements showing the attendance, progress and conduct of the pupils of the School Department are sent to their parents for their remarks and suggestions. An Admission Fee of Rs. 3 is charged to all students of the College Department, and the monthly tuition fee is Rs. 3. In the School Department the rates of fee vary from one rupee in the lowest classes to three rupees in the highest. The management of the College has, since the death of the late Rector Babu Krishna Bihari Sen, M.A., been vested in a Committee which at present consists of the following gentlemen : President. Babu Narendra Nath Sen. Members. The Hon'ble Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, M.A., D.L., F.R.A.S., Principal and Professor of English Kali Prasanna Banerji, M.A. Professor of Logic Literature Professor of Physical Science Professor of Mathematics Professor of History Professor of Sanskrit Professor of Persian Professor of Sanitary Science Vacant. Kalachand Batabyal, B.A. Srishchandra Laha, B.A. Rajanikanta Chatterjee, B.A. Saratchandra Chaudhury, L.M.S. 5. Burdwan Raj College. AFFILIATED, 1882. This Institution, since its first establishment in 1817, has been one of slow but steady growth. True to its mission of supplying the demands of the public of Burdwan for education in the modern acceptation of the term, it has always kept pace with the real wants of the place. Started as an Anglo-Vernacular School imparting rudimentary education, which satisfied the intellectual craving of the Burdwan people of the early days of British rule in India, it passed through different stages of improvement, developed various phases of usefulness, and at last attained a recognised position as a Second Grade College in 1881. The educational establishments of His Highness the Maharaja Adhiraj Bahadur divide themselves at the present time under five heads :First, the College Department, which is open to all students that are matriculated in the Calcutta University, teaching up to the F.A. Standard. Second, the School Department, serving chiefly as a feeder or tributary to the above, preparing students for the Calcutta University Entrance Examination. Third, the Persian Department teaching, amongst others, those boys of the first two Departments that take up Persian as their second language. Fourth, the Sanskrit School, imparting instruction in the orthodox native style to those whose religious scruples prevent them from availing themselves of the advantages of the English School. And fifth and last, the Girls' School, the present provision in connection with which, though meagre, is more than sufficient to meet the requirements of female education as it is understood at Burdwan. All these Departments are under the control of the Principal. The disbursements in the different Departments aggregate annually about Rs. 23,246, they being entirely met by the munificent charity of His Highness the Maharaja Adhiraj Bahadur. Education in its various phases is imparted gratuitously, several boys, in consideration of their extreme indigence, being found in money, besides being provided with free tuition. Three Scholarships of Rs. 10 per mensem each, and tenable for two years. are annually awarded to the best amongst those successful F.A. candidates from the College who fail to secure Government Senior Scholarships, to enable them to study for the B.A. Examination. INSTRUCTIVE STAFF. College Department. Principal and Professor of English Professor of English and History Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Umacharan Bandyopadhyay, M.A Vidya This institution, started originally as a Middle Vernacular School, added to itself in the year 1872 an Entrance School, subsequently developed into a Second Grade College. It is named after the late Babu Jagannath Ray Chaudhuri of Baliati, Dacca, father of the Proprietor Babu Kisorilal Ray Chaudhuri. The College and the School are placed separately under the control of the Principal and the Headmaster respectively, the school being named the Kisorilal Jubilee School. Students are charged a tuition fee of Rs. 3 each per month. A Hostel, called The Jagannath College Hostel," has been opened in connection with the Institution, with accommodation for about 80 students. The resident Superintendent of the Hostel is Babu Rajendranath Sen, M.A. INSTRUCTIVE STAFF. Principal and Professor of English Lalitmohan Chatterji, M A. Literature Professor of English and Logic Professor of Mathematics Professor of Science Professor of Sanskrit and History Sasimohan Basak, M.A. Medical Officer and Lecturer on Sanitary Science and Physiology Umaprasanna Ghosh, L.M.S. Persian Teacher Maulavi Abdul Aziz. 7. Uttarpara College. AFFILIATED, 1887. This College is the final outcome of the long-continued efforts of the late Babu Jaykissen Mukerji in furtherance of the cause of English education in Bengal, In 1846 he had a Government School opened at Uttarpara on the basis of an endowment by him and his brother, the late Babu Rajkissen Mukherji, of Rs. 1,200 a year, and a Government assignment of equal value. The School prospered, and won its way to the front rank among the schools in Bengal. Babu Jaykissen's wish was that his school should ultimately expand into a College, and to this end, so long as the year 1853, he asked Government to raise the school to a first class College, offering to contribute an equal sum with Government towards the maintenance of the College. In 1883 he submitted a proposal for the conversion of the school into a Second Grade College, offering to make an endowment for its support so that it may cost the Government nothing. The recently initiated educational policy of Government stood, however, in the way of his proposal being accepted, and it was accordingly not accepted. He finally went up to Government in April, 1887, with a proposal for the establishment of an aided College in connection with the old Government School. Government accorded him permission to open such a College, but on the condition that he took the school off the hands of Government. He agreed to do so, provided Government left the school the material advantages it derived from its connection with Government. It took some time to settle the terms of the transfer, which was formally effected in March, 1889. The College and the Collegiate School were then under the management of a Board consisting of the Collector of Hughly as President, of Raja Pyarimohan Mukerji, C.S.I., and Babu Rasbihari Mukerji as representatives of the late Babu Jaykissen Mukherji, and of Babu Manohar Mukherji as representative of the late Babu Rajkissen Mukerji. But the Uttarpara School having been resumed by Government on 1st April, 1897, the College is entirely maintained and managed by its proprietor. Raja Pyarimohan Mukherji. The College is incorporated with the Armenian Philanthropic Academy, a Day and Boarding School, which was established on the 2nd of April, 1821, by influential members of the Armenian community resident in Calcutta, for the education of our youth, both rich and poor.' In 1813 Chatoor Moorathan bequeathed a sum of Rs. 8,000 towards the opening of such an institution, and his liberality was so supported by a large number of donations that, when the Academy was set on foot, it owned over Rs. 2,00,000. Until the year 1883 the affairs of the school were administered by a number of Armenian gentlemen, who were styled Members of the Institution, and who elected four of themselves to be Managers. But in that year, under a decree of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, a scheme was drawn up for the future regulation and management of the Academy. The funds of the school were placed in the hands of the Official Trustee of Bengal, and a Board of Managers was appointed. The College keeps on its rolls about sixty foundationers of Armenian parentage. Some of these lads are provided for by the Armenian Association of Batavia; others by the Armenian Church of Calcutta ; others under ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, NORTH POINT, DARJEELING. 717 the Mary Apcar Trust; others by the Burma ex-pupils; and others by the College itself. Besides these, pupils of all denominations are received as boarders and day-scholars on payment of the usual fees. MANAGERS. St. J. Stephen, Esq., B.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law. The Armenian Cadet Company, from the College, number about 60 rank and file, under the command of the Principal. 9. St. Joseph's College, North Point, Darjeeling. AFFILIATED, 1889. The College opened in February, 1888, under the direction of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, in the building known as St. Joseph's Seminary, Sunny Bank. It has been transferred to North Point, into a new large building of stone in Gothic style. The College aims at a sound knowledge of English, Mathematics, History, Geography and the Classics. A Special Department has been opened to prepare young men for the different Government Examinations, such as the Superior Branch of Accounts, Police, Opium, Traffic, Forest, etc., as well as for entrance into the Thomason C.E. College, Roorkee. Every facility is offered for learning modern languages, music and drawing, and a complete apparatus for gymnastics is at the disposal of the pupils. A Museum of Physical Science instruments and a Laboratory for Chemistry are attached to the College. |