( so ) have the honor to submit that I fully approve of the proposal to make the vernacular languages the medium of instruction up to the Entrance: Examination in such subjects as History, Geography and Mathematics. ut should like to see it for the present restricted up to the fourth class of our Entrance Schools, Though I believe that the change when carried out in its integrity will do immense good to our student community and national literature, yet for a successful working of the system we ought to be content with giving it a fair trial up to the standard of the Middle English Examination. As for introducing Bengali into the curriculum of the F. A. and the B. A. Examinations in addition to Sanskrit, there appears to me little difficulty except that the students taking up the literary course in the B. A. Examination will have to submit to a harder examination than those who will take up Latin or Arabic as their second language. Yours faithfully, HAR MoHAN SEN. Head-master Zillah School, Barisal. 3i From THE HEAD MASTER, Pubna Zillah School, TTO Babu Rabindra Nath Tagore and other Members of the Bengal Academy of Literature. Dated, Pubna, the 12th January, 1895, SRs, In reference to your Circular letter of the 5th Instant, I have the honour to record my humble opinion about the two proposals contained therein. As regards the first proposal, I beg to say that I was Head Master of the Jessore Zillah School for full twelve years after the Vernacular Basis System had been introduced into it; and I found by experience that by imparting education to the boys in History, Geography, and Mathematics in Bengali up to the 5th class only, their progress in the English language and literature was retarded so much so, that, with our best exertion, we could hardly send up two-third of the passed candidates at the Middle Vernacular Scholarship Examination to the University Entrance Examination at the aud of the fourth year, Mr. Garrett's, the originator of the Vernacular Basis System,
