Subjoined are extracts from the reports of the various examiners, detailed tabular statements of the results of the senior and junior scholarship examinations being appended to this volume at p. p. clxii to clxxxv.

Mr. Thwaytes stated that—

Calliprosonno Chatterjee, of the Hooghly College, had obtained a sufficient number of marks in Mixed Mathematics, to entitle him to the medal presented to the College by Sir Herbert Maddock."

The medal was accordingly awarded to him.

The following is the Reverend K. M. Banerjea's report on the Vernacular Essays:

"My opinion of the Essays will appear from the numbers attached to them. I will only add that I have in some cases given lower numbers than would be otherwise obtained, because of the essayists needlessly making use of grossly indelicate phrases in Sanscrit by way of rhetorical ornament, such as they would never dare to translate in plain Bengali in any decent society. I think such vicious taste should be discouraged." Mr. Kerr reported that—

"The answers of the Hindu College in Literature appear to be superior this year to those of the other Colleges. The answers of Rajinder Nauth Mitter are remarkably good, and not less so those of Omesh Chunder Dutt, both of the Hindu College.

"It may be remarked generally that the students of the Hindu College write more correctly and with more fluency and freedom than the students of any of the other Colleges, arising, it may be, from local circumstances in their favor, such as the large English population of Calcutta, which makes English almost the Vernacular language of the place. "The best Essays are those written by Mohendro Laul Shome of the Hindu College, and Isser Chunder Dass of the Hooghly College. As the subject of the Essays possesses local interest, and as it may be not uninteresting to some, both in this country and in England, to know the opinions of intelligent young natives of India on such a question, I beg to recommend that both of their Essays, which are nearly of equal merit, should be printed in the annual report. The papers of Rajinder Nauth Mitter in Literature, and the forenoon paper in Literature of Omes Chunder Dutt, and the afternoon paper of Mooraly Dhur Sen may also be printed, if the Council deem them worthy of it.

"The replies of the Hooghly College in Literature, are not sufficiently full and complete. A fuller development is, in most instances, required. "The lines

"But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill,"

are by some of the best pupils rendered into 'Look now it is morning,' which though in a manner correct, is evidently too concise and naked. The passage is stript of all its beauty and turned literally into 'plain prose.'

"Another remark which may be made, with reference to the Hooghly College, is, that there is no evidence of that decided advance in the senior scholars Cally Prossonno Chatterjee and Isser Chunder Dass, which might be expected from another year's devotion to study. The examiner is strongly inclined to think that six years is too long a period to retain a senior scholarship, and that four years, which he believes is the usual period at home, is long enough. If held for a longer period, the student is apt to relax in his diligence.

"Omes Chunder Dass, of the Dacca College, appears to have fallen off much in Literature since last year. His proficiency was then represented by the number 40, now by 27. The chief fault I found with his paper is its diffuseness. The writer wanders from the point, and says much that shows talent and is instructive, but which has no clear connection with the question. Thus in reply to the first question in Literature, simply requiring an explanation of the words and our vain blows malicious mockery,' he goes out of his way to take notice of the popular belief, that only a scholar' who knew Latin could speak to a ghost with any hope of receiving a reply. He expatiates upon this for two pages, and at the third page, comes back to the question.

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"An error more or less observable in all the Colleges is, that of extracting paragraphs from books, quoted from memory, with more or less exactness, and dove-tailed into the answer without acknowledgment. An example or two may be given. Callychurn Chatterjee, in replying to the third question of the afternoon paper in Literature, says, 'here we have to carry on, along with the logical process expressed in words, another process of a far more difficult nature, that of fixing the attention upon the objects which the words we employ signify.' This is taken verbatim from Dugald Stewart. Another example may be given of a vice so common, and which perhaps is natural to young men composing in a foreign language. One of the candidates commences his

Essay thus, Man, considered in himself, is a very miserable being. When we consider him only in regard to his physical constitution, he seems to be in all respects inferior to all other denizens. He is beset with dangers of all kinds and casualties which he cannot foresee and cannot prevent even if he had foreseen them. When we take into consideration the absolute helplessness of his childhood, and the imbecility of his old age, we pronounce him to be the most miserable creature in existence, &c.' This is copied almost verbatim from Herschel's beautiful discourse on the study of Natural Philosophy."

Mr. Jones, the examiner in Mental Philosophy, reported as follows:

"The answers of Mohendro Laul Shome, of the Hindu College, appear to me to be the best, both as respects style and matter, and I beg to recommend their being published.

"Many of the answers to the questions in Abercrombie's Mental Philosophy are likewise very good. The answers of the following students are among the best.

"I must remark, however, that several of the papers from Dacca are

disfigured by bad handwriting and bad spelling."

The following is a list of the scholarships gained and

Scholarships

Gained and Re

tained.

retained in the different Institutions,

placed in the order of seniority of the Colleges: