( 7რ ) From C. A. MARTIN ESQ., L. L. D. Inspector of Schools Rajshahi and Burdwan Circle. To HONORABLE JUSTICE GOOROO DAS BANERJI, M. A. D. L. and 4 others. Chinsura, the I oth January i 895. Gentlemen, Referring to your circular letter dated the 5th January 1895, asking my opinion on a proposal to have the candidates for Entrance into the Calcutta University Examined in their own Vernacular in the subjects History Geography and Mathematics, I have the honour to say that had the proposal been sent up to me for opinion two or three years ago I should have given it my unqualified support. I have however, lately been going into statistics comparing the success of Entrance candidates appearing from schools placed upon a vernacular basis and from schools on an English basis respectively and I have found that where as the proportion of passes in English from both these classes of schools was very much the same and the failures in 2nd language were from schools on an English basis as one in seven candidates against one in 45 from schools on a Vernacular basis, yet on the other hand the failures in the very subjects to which you refer were very much higher from schools on a Vernacular basis-thus in History and Geography the proportion of failures from schools on a Vernacular basis were as 2 to 5 and from Schools on an English basis as I to 24 only. My figures have been taken from the results of the schools in the Rajshahi Division in the years 1891, 1892 and 1893, and I have been reluctantly compelled to abandon my former opinion that it was desirable to place High English Schools upon a Vernacular basis. I have the honour to be Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servent C. A. MARTIN. Inspector of Schools Rajshahi and Burdwan Circle.
