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Rh successful. No doubt, the rate of tuition-fee charged was 3 Rupees a month for every student from the highest to the lowest class, but the number of pupils was too small, for there was the Training Academy standing in rivalry. In a few years, the, exceptionally brilliant result of the Metropolitan Institution attracted many youths from other schools, and it then became self-supporting. But to the credit of Vidyasagar it must be said that, like the proprietors of many schools of the present day, he never turned the Institution to a profitable business. Out of the revenues of the school, he never appropriated a single pice to his own personal interest. Even the present authorities of the Institution have admitted in their printed declaration that;—"He (i.e. the Pandit) never made any profit out of the income of the Institution. He did, however, take loans occasionally from the fund of the Institution, but the same was always repaid."

On the 25th Junuary, 1872, Vidyasagar reformed a Committee for the management of the Institution, consisting of himself, Dwarka Nath Mitter, and Kristo Das Paul as members. Two days subsequent to the formation of this Committee an application was again made for the affiliation of the Institution to the Calcutta University up to the First Arts Examination. The application ran as follows:—