Appendix H. 1. A revised scheme for the award of scholarships in the Sanscrit College. That the order and time of studies in the Sanscrit College shall be regulated as follows, viz.: 2. No student of the Vyakarana class shall be permitted to pass scholarship examination. 3. Junior scholarships shall be confined to the Sahitya and Alankar classes, and sets of examination questions in those classes (both in literature and Jyotish) should be distinct from each other, giving higher standard to the Alankar class. 4. A student in the Sahitya class shall gain a junior scho50 larship on obtaining one-half of the complete number prescribed in the margin, and retain or carry a junior scholarship to the Alankar class on gaining 60 per cent. of that number. 50 50 Total,.. 250 5. A student in the Alankar class shall gain or retain a junior scholarship on the terms 50 prescribed in the preceding paragraph with this modification, viz., that questions on Alankar of an elementary nature should be substituted for those on Vyakarana,* carrying the junior scholarship in the last year to the Smriti class. 50 50 Total,.. 250 6. The study of Jyotish in the Sanscrit College being merely elementary and confined to the Sahitya and Alankar classes, proficiency in that branch of the study alone as a science will not entitle a student to claim a senior scholarship. 7. No student of the Nyaya or Smriti class shall be allowed to compete for a junior scholarship. Sahitya, ... ... 50 50 8. A first year's student in the Smriti class shall gain 50 a senior scholarship or retain a 50 junior scholarship on obtaining one-half of the prescribed number noted in the margin on senior scholarship papers. A second year's student shall gain or retain a senior scholarship on obtaining 60 per cent. of that Smriti, Jyotish, 50 ......... Poetical Composition, 50 Bengali Essay, Prose Composition, 50 Total,... 350 number, and a third year's student shall gain or retain a senior scholarship on obtaining 70 per cent. of that number and carry it to the Nyaya class. 9. A first year's student in the Nyaya class shall gain or 50 retain a senior scholarship on 50 obtaining one-half of the prescribed number noted in the 50 margin on senior scholarship. papers, a second year's student will gain or retain a senior scholarship on gaining 60 per cent. of that number, and a third year's senior scholarship on gaining 70 Poetical Composition, Bengali Essay, 50 50 Total,... 350 student will gain or retain a per cent. of that number. 10. By the above arrangements a junior scholarship will be tenable for four years and senior one for six years. 11. The English junior scholarship shall be awarded on the terms adopted in the Zillah Schools. CIRCULAR ORDERS. No. 1. From the Secretary, Council of Education, To all Institutions under the Control of the Council. Fort William, 3rd October, 1849. SIR,-I am directed by the Council of Education to inform you, that as the charge of all the schools in Bengal and Behar has been made over to them, they have resolved to introduce into them the same scheme of study as is followed in the institutions heretofore under their control. 2. This scheme is at present undergoing revision, and when completed will be duly promulgated for general information. 3. In the meantime the Council will feel obliged by your not indenting for any further supplies from the Book Agent until the new scheme is published. I have, &c., FRED. J. MOUAT, M. D., (Signed) Secretary, Council of Education. No. 2. From the Secretary, Council of Education, To all Institutions under the Control of the Council. Fort William, 4th October, 1849. SIR,-As all the Government colleges and schools in Bengal and Behar have now been placed under the orders and control of the Council of Education, and as all future promotions in the department will be made strictly and impartially according to the qualifications, length of services and conduct of the officers serving in it, the Council request that you will be so good as to procure from every officer serving in the [] college or school, a statement of his services in the tabular form annexed. Each officer will furnish a separate return. Return of the services and qualifications of A. B. of the College or School. No. 3. From the Secretary, Council of Education, To all Institutions under the Control of the Council. Fort William, 5th October, 1849. SIR, I am directed by the Council of Education to request that you will be so good as to send to this office, at your earliest convenience, a statement of the sums drawn monthly for contingencies for the last three years, as well as a brief specification of the nature of the charges admitted by the Government under that head. It is the intention of the Council to fix a maximum uniform rate for all zillah schools beyond which no outlay will be sanctioned at any time, and as the education funds are not equal at present to the expenditure of the department, the Council trust that no charge will be admitted or recommended by the local Committee that is not absolutely necessary. From the Secretary, Council of Education, To all Institutions under the Control of the Council. Fort William, 30th November, 1849. SIR,-As the expenditure of English foolscap paper in the scholarship and other written examination, of the (college or school) appears to have entailed an unnecessarily heavy charge upon the education funds, I am directed by the Council of Education to request that all future written examinations and exercises may be upon Serampore or any other paper equally cheap, that is procurable in the bazars. The exercises in question are only intended to serve a temporary purpose, and are not designed for permanent record, their being written on expensive and durable paper is not therefore necessary, while the practice of economy in all expenditure connected with the education funds is really a matter of importance when those funds are unequal to the demands upon them. For the above mentioned reason, the Council have resolved that this order shall be communicated to the officers of all the institutions under their control for their information and guidance. (Signed) I have, &c., Secretary, Council of Education. No. 5. From the Secretary, Council of Education, To the Principal Dacca College. Secretary Hindu Col- Principal Hooghly Fort William, 21st December, 1849. SIR,-I am directed to inform you that the existing system of awards of the Library medal having come under the consideration of the Council of Education, they have arrived at the conclusion that it does not fulfil the object contemplated in the institution of such a prize, viz., the encouragement of an extended and profitable course of spontaneous reading, irrespective of the routine studies of the classes. With a view to accomplish this in future, the Council have resolved to select a subject at the time of promulgating the standards in Literature and History, and to examine all candidates at the end of the session in the course of reading adopted by them in that particular subject, each competitor submitting, as at present, a list of the works studied by him with special reference to the subject selected. In accordance with the above resolution, the following subject has been selected for the course of study during the present year, for all candidates for the Library Medal. "The Geography and History of Bengal from the accession of Akber, with special reference to its productive resources, commerce, and the civil and politicial condition of the people." (Signed) I have, &c., FRED. J. MOUAT, M. D., Secretary, Council of Education. No. 6. From the Secretary, Council of Education, To the Secretary, Local Committee Public Instruction, Dacca. Dated Fort William, 18th March, 1850. SIR,-I am directed by the Council of Education to forward for your Kishnaghur College. information the accompanying minute by the Hon'ble the President of the Council, embodying changes in the scheme of scholarships and standards of study in connection with them, which have received the sanction of Govern ment and are to be carried into effect. The Council will feel obliged by your reporting at your earliest conve nience the extent to which the proposed changes can be brought into opera tion at the end of the current session, viz., in six months from this time. They also wish to know the exact position of every scholarshipholder and free scholar in regard to the class in which he now is, the time during which he has held a scholarship, and all other particulars regarding him. |