( 56 ) student brought up in the school in which all the subjects save the second language are taught through the medium of English. I admit that History, Geography and Mathematics are learnt more easily and within a shorter space of time, when these subjects are taught through the medium of the vernacular languages. But experience has clearly shewn that this apparent advantage is of no real value when it is gained at the expense of English. (2) That I approve of the proposal to make the study of Bengali a part of the curriculum in the F. A. and B. A. Examinations, not in substitution of Sanskrit, Arabic or Persian, but in addition to these languages. I have the honour to be SR, Your most obedient Servant, KEDARNATH GANGULY. Head Master, Khulna Zillah School. ვ6 From BABU KEDARNATH GHosH, Head Mast, Maldah Zilla School. To The Members of the Bengal Academy of Literature, Calcutta. Dated, Maldah, the 29th January, 1895. SRS, l, Some of the honourable and distinguished members of the Bengal Academy of Literature, instituted of late in Calcutta, having, in their Circular letter dated the 5th January 1895, invited the opinions and views of the educated public on the desirability of making the vernacular languages the medium of instruction in high schools in the subjects, vis. History, Geography and Mathematics, I have the honour to submit, at the outset, before dwelling on the main proposal, mentioned in the honourable mem. bers' Circular letter under reply, a few words in connection with the present system of teaching in High Schools competing for the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University. I. The want of practical tendency exhibited in the teaching in Middle Vernacular, Middle English and High Schools competing for public examinations, has been felt from a long time without any practical solution of the problem being arrived at. Sir George Cambell, while Lieutenant-Governor
