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 116 LIFE OF BABU SURENDBA NATH BANRBJEB. up Latin as his second language, and obtained a Junior Scholarship. In the Little-go Examination, two years latter, he was similarly successful and ob- tained Senior Scholarship. He passed his b.a. degree in 1868 in the second^ division. Why such an intelli- gent youth who had invariably secured high places in the different University Examination passed the b.a. Examination in the second division may be explained by the fact that Babu Surendra Nath was in bad health, having had two serious attacks of fever before the Examination which seriously interfered with his studies. All along Latin had been his second language. CHAPTER II. HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND TO COMPETE FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE. Mr. J. Sime, now an Inspector of Schools in the Panjab, was the Principal of the Doveton College when Mr. Banerjee took his degree ; and it is said that it was this gentleman who suggested to him that he should go to England and compete for the Civil Service. Mr. Sime used to take a great interest in the education of this precocious youth, in whom he early discerned all the elements of his future glorious career. Agreeably to the advice of this European Professor, though against the strongest remonstrances of his mother and his aged grand-father, Mr. Banerjee left for England on the 3rd March 1868 with a view to com- pete for the Civil Service. With that view, he studied In University College, London. His unrivalled com- mand of the English language may be attributable to the fact, that, while in University College, he studied English under Professor Henry Morley, one of the best English Scholars in London. He also learnt Sanskrit under Professor Goldstucker. In 1869,