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443 year showed brilliant results at the Calcutta University Entrance Examination. In the beginning of 1864, the name of the institution was converted from "The Calcutta Training School" to "The Hindu Metropolitan Institution," and in April of the same year an application was made for the affiliation of the Institution to the Calcutta University for the instruction of the higher Arts, but it was rejected. The application ran as follows:—

"To H. Scott Smith Esq.,

"Sir,

We have the honour to request the favour of your laying before the Syndicate this our application for the affiliation of the Metropolitan Institution to the Calcutta University.

"We beg to annex hereto the declaration and the statement required by the rules for affiliation.

"With regard to the provision proposed to be made for the instruction of the students up to the standard of the B. A. degree, we beg to state that we have decided to organise the instructive staff as indicated in the statement. At present arrangements have been made for the instruction of the students in the course prescribed for the First Examination in Arts, and 39 students have already been admitted to the class which has been