The Eden Hinda Hostel is a Government Institution maintained in connection with the College, and is under the control of the Principal. A Gold Medal, called the Scindiah Medal, the value of the interest on Rs. 2,500, being a donation from His Highness the Maharaja Scindiah, is awarded annually to the candidate who stands first among the successful candidates from this College at the F.A Examination. Five Scholarships, founded in commemoration of the donors whose names they bear, are attached to the College, and are tenable by Graduates in Arts or Science for one year after taking the degree of B.A. or B.Sc., viz : The following Scholarships are tenable on the same conditions: : COMMERCIAL EDUCATION. 1. Courses of study and delivery of lectures.-Arrangements are made for instruction and examination in two different courses of study-one to be a complete course every part of which shall be obligatory, and the other to consist of a series of lectures or classes all or any of which may be attended at option. The lectures in the former course are delivered during the day, while those in the latter are delivered in the evening only. 2. Day Course.-The following are the subjects prescribed for the day course: (i) English (modern), and especially English correspondence, including (iii) one of the following languages, namely, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Uriya, French. German or Latin ; (iv) one of following subjects, namely, book-keeping, shorthand-writing or typewriting; and (v) commercial history and geography. The course extends over a period of two years, at the end of which an examination is held in the prescribed subjects, in all of which the candidates are required to pass. No candidate is allowed to pass unless his answers on every subject are written in a good, legible handwriting. 3. Evening Course.-The following are the subjects prescribed for the evening course : (i) outlines of political economy; (ii) banking and currency; (iii) commercial and industrial law; (iv) annuities and insurance; (v) book-keeping; (vi) shorthand-writing; (vii) typewriting; and (viii) English (modern). In these subjects special examinations are held, candidates being allowed to take up each separately and to obtain certificates of having passed in it. 4. Award of certificates and publication of results.-Certificates are awarded by the Education Department to students passing the examinations, and require endorsement by the Secretary to the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and lists of successful candidates, without classification, are published by that Chamber and by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce. 5. Admission.-There is no age-limit for candidates for either course. Candidates who have passed the "C class" Examination of High Schools or the Entrance Examination are eligible for admission to the day course, but others are admitted only if they satisfy the Education Department, by passing a preliminary test-examination of a similar standard, that they have sufficient general education to enable them to derive advantage from the lectures. Candidates who have not attended the lectures in the day course are allowed to compete at the examination only if they have passed the Entrance or the "C class" Examination or satisfied the Education Department, by passing a preliminary test-examination, that they have a reasonable prospect of success. The form of certificate which is issued to students who have passed this examination, as laid down in paragraph (2) above, shows whether the student has passed the "C class" or Entrance Examination or not, and also whether he has duly attended the lectures prescribed for the day course Those only who have passed the "C class or Entrance Examination, and after attending the full day course of lectures have passed the prescribed examination, are considered to be eligible for the full commercial certificate. Candidates who have attended the lectures in the day course are eligible for admission to the evening course and allowed to compete at the examinations; but others are admitted and allowed to compete only if they satisfy the Education Department by passing a preliminary test-examination that they have a reasonable prospect of success, as the case may be. The certificates issued on the result of the examination in this course, as laid down in paragraph (3) above, show whether the students have attended the lectures prescribed for the day course and have passed such examination, and also whether they have attended the evening course of lectures. ་་ 6. Fees.-The tuition fee is Rs. 3 per mensem payable for the whole school year for the entire day course, and the admission fee is Rs. 3. A fee of Rs. 3 is payable for each series of fifteen lectures in the evening course on (i) banking and currency; (ii) commercial and industrial law; (iii) annuities and insurance; The fee for each course of thirty-two lectures on the outlines of political economy is Rs. 5. As the evening lectures on book-keeping, shorthand-writing, and typewriting are on advanced portions of those subjects and continue over a cosiderable period, the fee for each course is Rs. 10. 7. The setting of the papers for the examinations is left to an Examination Board, which is constituted for the purpose by the Director of Public Instruction, and upon which the Eduction Department, the Bengal Chamber of Commerce,and the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce are represented. 8. Prizes. Three gold medals, offered by the Remington Typewriter Company, are awarded on the results of the examination on the evening course of lectures on typewriting to the three students awarded the highest marks for efficiency. 9. Four scholarships, of Rs. 16, Rs. 12, Rs. 8, and Rs. 8 per mensem, tenable for two years, respectively, are, under existing arrangements, available for candidates admitted to the day course who have passed the "C class" Examination; and candidates who have obtained similar scholar.. ships at the Entrance Examination are permitted to hold them during the day course. A. Macdonell, M.A. J. N. Dasgupta, B.A. Professors of Mental and Moral Phil- C. Russell, M.A. (on leave). osophy and Logic {Adityanath Mukerjee, M.A. Professors of History and Political M. E. Du Prothero, M.A. Economy Professors of Sanskrit Professor of Arabic and Persian Binayendranath Sen, M A. Kaliprasanna Bhattacharyya, M.A {Satischandra Acharyya, M.A. Shams-ul-Ulama Mirza Ashraf Ali. Professors of Mathematics and As-Saradaprasanna Das, M.A. tronomy Professors of Physics Lecturer on Sanitary Science to Professors. (Baradaprasad Ghosh. Jagadinda Ray. (Gopibhushan Sen, B.A. (on deputa Lecturer on Commercial Bengali Lecturer on Book-keeping Girindrakam ir Sen, B.A. Devendranath Sen, M.A. Mahadevkrishna Dandikar, BA Lecturer on Shorthand and Type-Devendralal Datta, B.A. writing ... This Institution was founded in 1836, and was originally supported from funds bequeathed by Muhammad Moshin, a wealthy Muhammadan gentleman, who dying without heirs in the year 1806 left his large property, yielding an annual income of Rs. 45,000, to Muhammadan Trustees" for the service of God." Owing to the misappropriation of the funds Government assumed the office of Trustees. The right of assumption was opposed by the original Trustees, but upheld both by the Courts in India and by the Privy Council in England. The period of litigation extended over many years, during which the annual income accumulated, forming a surplus of Rs. 8,61,100. The surplus was devoted to the foundation and endowment of the Hughli College, and was further increased by a portion of the original zemindaree that became available on the death of one of the Mootawallees of the Hughli Immambarah, an Institution which also derives its support from Muhammad Mohsin's legacy. The College endowments were further increased by the accumulation of unexpended revenue until the income amounted to Rs. 51,000 per annum. In 1873 the Government of India resolved to transfer the whole of the Mohsin endowment to the purpose of Muhammadan education throughout Bengal, and accordingly increased the provincial assignment for education in Bengal by Rs. 50,000 a year, in order to meet the expenses of the Hughli College which has now become an Institution maintained by the Government. The College consists of three Departments,-an English, an Arabic, and a Law Department,-and is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal. The English Department is open to all students who have passed the University Entrance Examination, the fees being three rupees per mensem for Muhammadans and Rs. 6 for all others. In the Law Department the fee is Rs. 7 for the 1st and 2nd year classes. There are Hindu and Muhammadan Hostels connected with the College; the Boarding fee of the former is Rs. 5-8 per mensem, and in the latter Rs. 3-8, subject to enhancement, according to enhanced rates of food articles. SCHOLARSHIPS, STUDENTSHIPS, &c. 1. One Laha Scholarship of Rs. 25 per mensem tenable for one year, is awarded annually to a graduate in Honours of this College, who is preparing, within five years of his passing the Entrance Examination, to take the M.A. degree. 2. One Rani Katyani Scholarship of Rs. 16 per mensem, tenable for two years, is awarded annually to the most deserving student who has passed the F.A. Examination from the College, and who has not gained a Government Scholarship; but the Principal, who is the administrator of this scholarship fund, is authorised to divide the scholarship into two of Rs. 8 each whenever such a course may be advisable. 3. One Zemindaree Scholarship of Rs. 7 per mensem, tenable for two years, is awarded annually to the most deserving student who has passed the Entrance Examination from the Collegiate or Branch School, and who has not gained a Government Scholarship, preference being given to a student of the latter school. 4. Two Mohsin Junior Scholarships, each of Rs. 8 per mensem, tenable for two years at the College, are awarded annually. 5. Maharaja Doorgacharan Laha, C.I.E., awards five studentships, each of Rs 5 per mensem, to students reading in the English Department of the College, and five of Rs. 3 each to students of the Collegiate School. 6. Nine Mohsin Anglo-Persian Scholarships, tenable for one year, three of Rs. 5, three of Rs. 4, and three of Rs. 3 per mensem, are awarded annually to the most deserving Muhammadan students of the Collegiate School. 7. Thirty Free Boarderships are attached to the Muhammadan Hostels, 13 of which are open to all Muhammadan students of the College and Collegiate School, who have not gained any Government or Mohsin Scholarships, and 17 to students of the Arabic Department. |