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104 Non-Scholarship Examinations.

The second class, senior school department, and all the classes of the junior school were examined by the officers of the College, the Local Committee superintending under the orders of the Council. Annexed is a statement of the results of these non-scholarship examinations.

Second Class, Senior School Department.

This class corresponds with the third class in the Hindu and Hooghly Colleges, there having been hitherto but two classes, instead of three, in the senior school department of this College. Next year, however, the advanced state of the College will render it necessary to complete this department, when it will admit of fair comparison with the older Institutions, and not before, the present pupils of the first senior school class, or the junior scholarship candidates, being for the most part only in their second year, whilst the candidates for junior honors of the Hindu and Hooghly Colleges are in their third. According to the provisions of the Honorable Mr. Bethune's minute (now in force with reference to new candidates only for scholarships) candidates of Colleges for junior scholarships cannot come up a second time for examination, upon the ground of their belonging to the first of three classes, or, in other words, of their being in their third year. Exception will, therefore, of course, be made in favour of those candidates who do not gain, and who are only in their second year.

This class contains 39 pupils, under Mr. Gunn: one absent, one sick. The reports of the examiners are as follows:

"This class passed a very fair examination in poetical reading and in explanation (Parnell's Hermit), and acquitted themselves creditably in English grammar. Their oral reading also in general was very good. Their written answers to the historical questions were, in style, in too many instances, slovenly, but the information they conveyed was generally correct."

"Mr. Gunn's class passed a very satisfactory examination in geometry, algebra and arithmetic, the subjects in which I examined it on the 12th and 15th of this month. In geometry, Raj Mohun Bose, and Hurry Mohun Doss are particularly deserving of mention, as having gained full marks. But many of the pupils did very well, and very few indifferently.

"The second class passed a very fair examination in geography; but I think in this class map-drawing should not have been omitted. In their Bengali studies, the pundit as well as myself were highly satisfied with their translations, both from Bengali into English, and vice versâ."