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202 beginners are obliged to commence with. From the Alankara Class to the last year of study in the College is some 7 or 8 years and a diligent student in the course of that period will have ample opportunity of making himself familiar with English language and Literature.

Another very important circumstance I beg to bring to the notice of the Council. The 5th Grammar Professor Pundit Kasinath Tarkapanchanana is not quite equal to discharge the duties of his class. He is an old Pundit and seems to be in his dotage. He is altogether unacquainted with that discipline which is absolutely required for so young a class as his. Being an old man, he will not bear to be directed, as is usual with all Pundits of his age.

From all these circumstances his class is the most irregular of all. Therefore I beg leave to propose that he be placed in charge of the library with his present salary Rs 40 a month, and the present Librarian, Pundit Girish Chunder Vidyaratna, a very distinguished ex-student of the Institution be appointed to the chair of the 5th Grammar Professor with his present salary 30 Rs a month to be raised to Rs 40 when a favourable opportunity offers. With regard to the promotion of boys from one class to another, the present practice of the College is to keep them in each class for the allotted number of years and send them at the expiration of the time to the higher class without any consideration as to the degree of their acquirements.

Under this arrangement it so happens that a student not withstanding he may have finished his course in the class, is not allowed to join the higher one if he has not finished his allotted years, whilst another let him be how dificient soever in the studies of the class, is promoted to