8 سنة From ሓ ... BABU BRojo NATH RAY Headmaster, Andul High English School, To BABU RABINDRA NATHI TAGORE, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. p Calcutta, the 28th January, I895, SIR, In reply to your favour of the 5th instant asking my opinion on the useful additions intended to be made to the curriculum of the University Examinations, I most respectfully beg hereby to convey to you my unqualified approbation of the movement made by the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. (a) Its object is no other than making our youths wise, discreet and practical men. It is, therefore, necessary, in determining the subjects of their studies, to attend to their destinies and their surroundings. They have, all of them, very often to express themselves in their own vernaculars, very often to make their accounts according to the Suvankari system of arithmetic, very often to deal with the prevailing manners and customs of their country. That students of the University should be in the dark with regard to all these their close and important questions, is a matter of great regret, and calls forth upon the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad to take what steps are well-calculated to better their sad and sorrowful circumstances. The success of this movement is very likely to bring forth more valuable consequences than that of the best plan the National Congress has been able to chalk out by this time, (3) Its utility, however, depends upon the extent of the subjects taught and upon the manner in which the teaching is conducted. Instead of solid advantages, splendid evils may arise if the selections be not adequate and judicious. Multiplicity of books can never be the sources of any complaint in this special case. The facility of the students in understanding the subjects written in their vernaculars, is very likely to overcome all the difficulties in this way. The advantages deriveable from these studies of pleasure and easiness, are such as to ensure their proficiency in all the respects. A (4) The Entrance candidates will scarcely reap any advantage from the study of their vernaculars, if they cannot learn fully the Zemindary and Mahajany accounts from it, if the facts and figures of History, Geography be not firmly impressed upon their minds by it, and if their deficiency in Composition and Translation be not made up by their Exercises in the
