( 6 ) Senate. A similar permissive rule was provided in 1857 on the first regulation of the University for the Entrance Examination, but was withdrawn in 1861-62. The reasons which probably led to its withdrawal do not exist now, and we think that the University should not stand in the way of those who honestly consider that instruction on a vernacular basis would lead not only to the improvement of the vernacular literature, but also to a deeper knowledge and a wider diffusion of European literature, philosophy and science among the educated classes, but that it should give the rule, which has been suggested above, a fair trial. We are of opinion that the University may without difficulty devise means to counteract the advantage that is likely to be gained by candidates answering in their vernacular languages over those answering in the English language, e.g. by making the full number of marks in their case lower than in the case of the latter. Such a procedure is not unknown in the history of examinations. 2. As regards the modified form of the first proposal, viz :-to place the instruction in the lower classes on a purely vernacular basis, the use of English as medium of instruction being confined to the four upper classes, there is also a difference of opinion but not so strong as for the first proposal itself. It is but natural that the instruction in the lower classes will be regulated by the examinations of the University. And so long as Examination in Mathematics, History and Geography is conducted in English for the Entrance Standard, there will be a broad line of separation between schools in which the media for imparting instruction differ--a state of things which we, by no means, approve. Yours faithfully, Rabindranath Tagore, Gooroodass Banerjee, Nandakrishna Bose, Rajanikanta Gupta, Hirendranath Datta.
