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ii Chandra Ray, has now grown into a Model English High School, and is located in the very ancestral house of Dr. Ray, for the up-keep of which he spends annually a handsome amount. This ancestral home of Dr. Ray is more than a century old and is partly in a dilapidated condition, but is still considered to be one of the finest buildings in the whole district. EDUCATION

Dr. Ray received his early training at his father's school; but his father, anxious that his sons should receive the best possible education, settled down at Calcutta towards the end of 1870. Young Prafulla Chandra was admitted as a pupil of the Hare School immediately and was there for four years. In 1874, he got a severe attack of dysentery and suffered from it for nearly two years and, consequently, was absent from school for a long period; but he utilised this time in devouring the contents of a splendid library got together by his father and his eldest brother. Being of very regular habits and disentangled from the trammels of ordinary school lessons -- he kept up his studies without let or hindrance, in spite of his malady, and got passionately attached to the works of Goldsmith, Addison and some other classical English authors. When sufficiently recovered from his malady, he took his admission into the Albert School of Calcutta, then in the heyday of its glory under the rectorship of the late Krishna Vihari Sen, and here he at once made his mark as a brilliant student. From Krishna Vihari young Prafulla Chandra also imbibed a deep and abiding love of English literature. At this time, he was a constant listener to the lectures and sermons of Keshub Chandra Sen, and was slowly attracted to the Brahmo Samaj of which he has been a member since 1882. At