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 suffered from weak digestion and poor appetite. He often resorted to healthy places but derived no appreciable benefit. This trouble ultimately carried him away from the world.

Next year (1867) a movement was started by Miss Carpenter to found a female normal school to train up lady-teachers for school and zenana. Sir William Grey, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (1867-'71), Babus Keshab Chandra Sen, M. M. Ghose, Dwijendra Nath Tagore along with some other Europeans and Indians of light and leading declared for the scheme, while the Hon'ble Seton-Karr, Mr. Atkinson, the Hon'ble Justice Sambhu Nath Pundit, Vidyasagar, Raja Kali Kristo and others stoutly opposed it. The opposition held, and with good reason, that the project would speedily and hopelessly collapse as respectable Hindus would never allow their grown-up females to leave the zenana in order to work as teachers. The prophecy came true. The Government ultimately opened the