( 14 ) which those that join Intrance schools on passing their vernacular examinations are well-known to labour. I am not opposed to the proposal of making the study of vernacular a part of the curriculum in the F. A. and B. A. Examinations, but, for the present, the study of such languages may be optional and not compulsory. Yours faithfully, ABDUL MoNAIM Professor of Arabic and Persian Presidency College, CALCUTTA. From BABU ABINASH CHANDRACHATTERJEE Head Master, Chittagong College. To THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANGIYA SATYA PARSHAD. SIR, In reply to the queries contained in your Circular letter of the 5th January 1895, I have the honour to state :- r. That, as the English language requires to be learnt much more generally and effectively by natives of British India than a foreign language is studied by a native of England, and as the opportunities or appliances for so thorough a mastery are not always available to the general body of Bengali students, I am of opinion that the Vernacular languages should not now be made the medium of instruction up to the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University in History and Mathematics; these may bowever be employed for purposes of instruction for the subjects aforesaid up to the standard of the Middle English Examination or to the 5th class of Entrance schools. 2. I do not approve of the proposal to make the study of Wernacular languages as part of the curriculum for the F.A. and B.A. Examinations in addition to the Indian Classics. The course for the Examinations especially the F.A., is already a little too expanded to admit of any further additions without burdening the brains of the examinees somewhat injuriously, . . . The vernaculars are already optional subjects in the Entrance Examination and these might further be allowed to be taken tip optionally in the F.A. though not in the B.A. Examination. Yours faithfully, ABINASH CHANDRACHATTERJEE Chittagong College,
