( 6.2 ) knowledge were conveyed in the mother-tongue of the students; but that is a change that does not seem to be contemplated in your proposal. To create a demand for books in the higher branches of knowledge and ulti mately to get up a reading public that would support such productions. I think, it were better we get on foot a movement for making the existing Normal schools the basis of a University teaching through the Vernacular with the tole in the country amalgamated with it, not in substitution of, but in addition to, the existing University with English as its medium of instruction. The Vernacular School of the country might be made the feeders of such a University, with the standard of education in them raised, and the benefits of High Education could be thus made to filter down to village communities with greater rapidity than at present, rendering the regeneration of the people comparatively a much easier task than it is with the existing arrangements for their education. With the Enghlish-teaching University to meet the other demands of our present political situation, the portion of the work of regenaration that would devolve upon the scholars coming out of the proposed University would be almost entirely amongst the people. With reasonable prospects in life for its students, such a University will attract pupils and the Vernacular Schools in the, country with their tutorial staff consisting of graduates and undergraduates from it, will be centres of enlightenment to the community around. Such a scheme, if it could be carried into effect, would besides open a wider scope for sanskrit-teaching, while it will remove the want of breadth that, at present, characterises tol education. With this preliminary statement of my views, I would, for my answers to your questions, draw upon my experience instead of theorising on the subject. Candidates for the Middle English Scholarship Examination were at one time, required to answer questions in History, Geography, and Mathematics, in the English Language, and passed candidates, if they joined High English Schools for farther prosecution of their studies, were, without objection, taken into she Second or Preparatory Entrance class in such schools. Since the change, more than a quarter of a century ago, prescribing the study of these subjects in the Vernacular, the knowledge in English of this class of students has become so deteriorated that they are now found not fit even for the fourth class. Within a few years back, I have known boys from Middle English Schools who, by reason of their knowledge in English net coming up to the standard have been constrained to join the Collegiate School here in the fifth class. I have also some experience of Entrance Schools on what is called "the Vernacular basis,' i.e., of schools in which the medium of instruction is Bengali up to the fourth or, I think,
