( 53 ) curriculum in the F.A. and B. A. Examinations, I think it will answer all necessary purposes if a paper on Composition in and Translation to théo vernaculars be set in addition to the paper om Sanskrit, Arabic or Persiam. I have the honour to be, SIR, Your most obedient Servant, JAоAт ВлNDнU LАнл, Head Master, Dacca Training School. 33 From BABU JYoTISH CHANDRA BANERJEE Principal, Rajchandra College, Barisal, Dated, BaT asal, 29th January, I 895. To The Members of The Bengal Academy of Literature. GENTLEMEN, In acknowledging with thanks the reciept of your Circular letter dated the 5th instant, asking for an expression of opinion as to the desirability or otherwise of adopting the vernaculars as the medium of instruction up to the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University in History, Geopraphy and Mathematics, and of introducing them into the curriculum of the F. A. and B. A. Examinations, "not in substitution of Sanskrit, Arabic or Persian, but in addition to these languages,' I beg to make the following brief observations :- ... While admitting that the general principle underlying the Academy's proposals embodied in the letter under reply, has my fullest sympathy, I cannot help thinking that the scheme contemplated by the Academy if given effect to in its entirety, will result in a multiplicity of subjects impairing the quality of instruction sought to be imparted by our University. I need hardly point out that, any additions to the already heavy F. A. and B. A. syllabuses would practically mean the abandonment of thoroughness, the supreme necessity of which our successive Chancellors and Vice-chancellors have from year to year been seeking to impress upon the minds of the rising generation. 2. As for the proposal of making the vernaculars the medium of instruction up to the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University, in History, Geography and Mathematics, I must confess, I cannot subscribe to it seeing, that such a course would tend to bring about a marked deteriora
