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74 with the sanction of the board of control, replied as follows:—

“The ends proposed in the institution of the Hindu college, and the same may be affirmed of the Mohammedan, were two: the first, to make a favourable impression, by our encouragement of their literature, upon the minds of the natives; and the second, to promote useful learning. You acknowledge, that if the plan has had any effect of the former kind, it has had none of the latter; and you add, that ‘it must be feared that the discredit attaching to such a failure has gone far to destroy the influence which the liberality of the endowments would otherwise have had.’

“We have from time to time been assured, that these colleges, though they had not till then been useful, were, in consequence of proposed arrangements, just about to become so; and we have received from you a similar prediction on the present occasion.