( 54 ) tion in the English scholarship of our boys, which has already suffered a good deal owing to a variety of causes, a full discussion of which it is not possible within the short limits we propose to ourselves. I venture to think, it would be no exaggeration to say, that the English of University going-young Bengal of to-day is a curious admixture of bad Grammar and worse idiom, if not worst orthography. In the face of such a palpable fact I cannot bring myself to see the advisability of relinquishing English in favour of the vernaculars as the medium of instruction in any of our Arts Examinations, 3. In conclusion, I beg to say that, the adoption of the above proposal so far as the Middle English Examination is concerned, fully recommends itself to me as a move in the right direction. I am, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, JvotisH CHANDRA BANERJEA. Principal. 34 From BABU KALAs CHANDRA BHATTACHARYA, Head-master, Zillha School, Comilla. To The Secretary to the Bengal Academy of Literature, Dated, Comilla, the 25th January, 1895. SR, In reference to the Circular letter dated the 5th January, 1895, signed by Babu Rabindra Nath Tagore and four other Members of the Academy on the subject of furthering the cause of the vernacular languages by introducing them more largely into the curriculum of the University exasainations, I have the honor to state as follows :- 2. As regards the proposal to make the vernacular languages the Baedium of instruction up to the Entrance Examination in History, Geography and Mathematics, it appears to me that, so kong as in the higher examinations of the University the text-books in such subjects remain in English, no useful purpose would be served by teaching then in the vernacular languages for the Entrance Examination. For it would only have the effect of placing the candidate for higher examinations at a disadvantage in learning them then through the medium of English without any previous study of the subjects through that medium. But, as I am for pushing the vernacular medium as further up as possible without detriment to the higher prospects of the candidate, it occurs to me that Geography which is not
