Page:Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work.djvu/237

Rh Great changes are required in this branch ofstudy. For the present, complete treatises on Arithemetic, Algebra and Geometry should be compiled from the best English works on those subjects. After studying these the students will be able to read Lilavati and Vijaganita with great facility. The higher branches of Mathematics should be attempted to be translated afterwards, and when ready should be adopted as class-books. I would propose that a popular treatise on Astronomy, such as Herschel's, be compiled in Bengali and be read in the Mathematical Class. These works might have been studied in English, but their appearance in Bengali will be of great use also in the Vernacular Schools. Besides the Sahitya and Alankara students, the students of the Smriti and Nyaya classes should also attend the lectures of the Professor of Mathematics.

Here the Junior Department of the Sanscrit College is considered to terminate.

I beg leave to propose that the study of Bengali books,