( 66 ) affect the students' command over the English language. The above objection appears to me to be altogether flimsy and of a highly gossamer character. On the above grounds I give my most hearty support to the first part of the first proposal. With regard to Geography I most unhesitatingly declare myself an enthusiastic advocate of the scheme; and my sentiments with regard to Mathametic are the same. But inspite of the fact that my sentiments run parallel to yours I can not but at the same time notice some very practical difficulties that lie in the way of the realisation of the scheme proposed:- (a) Suppose in an Entrance class there are hundred boys out of which the Vernacular of seventy-five is Bengali, that of ten is Urdu, that of the remainder are Hindi and Assamese. Let us now see how the work of the class would be conducted. If the University allows that History, Geography and Mathematics should be taught through the media of Vernacular languages would not such a school with such a class, be under the necessity of keeping four teachers of History, four of Geography and four of Mathe. matics 2 Can an ordinary institution Government or private, afford to keep so many teachers for teaching such subjects? Education in our country is yet in its elementary stage and the practical difficulty which I have suggested above will inevitably lead to a very serious confusion of work in many of the institutions, having such a miscellany of boys, are rare. But it is equally true that in the event of our University's accepting the above proposal, such institutions however rare will come to suffer. If all the boys having one Vernacular language belong to one school the difficulty I doubt not will not be felt. But as a matter of fact institutions there are where at least a small fractional portion of the boys have got Varmacular languages different from the Bengali. If the above proposal be accepted by the University the result will be that boys speaking one Vernacular language will flock to one school. And in my opinion if this does actually take place it will go against the development of friendly feelings between boys that speak different tongues, "rhe Assamese student will there by lose a chance of freely mixing with those that speak Bengali, Hindi, or Urdu. School life appear to me to be the best field for the cultivation of friendly feelings between those whom nature has alienated. The more we mix with those that have different languages from our own, the more comprehensive become our ideas and the stronger the ties of friendship binding soul with soul. This loss is in my opinion a serious one and before the proposal I have already supported can be carried into effect some practical steps must be taken to make up for it.
