Froma THE HEAD MASTER, Zealah School, Bogra. TTO The HON'ABLE JUSTICE GOOROODAS BANERJEE, M. A. D. L. BABU ROBINDRA NATH TAGORE, PANDIT RAJANI KANT GUPTA, MR. N. K. BASU, M. A. c. s. BABU HIRENDRA NATH DATTA, M. A. B. L. Dated, Bogra the 21st January п895. SIRS, In reference to your circular letter of the 5th instant, I humbly beg to inform you that the Annual Examination of the Bogra Zilla school has been commenced from the 16th instant and the promotion to the boys must be given on or before the 1st February. I have therefore very little time now to deleberate on such important subject and to lay before you the results of my deleberate thought; however, when you have kindly condescended to ask my opinion I humbly submit to you my cursory view on the subject and request the favour of your kindly gleaning the idea from it. I humbly beg to state that I am unable to agree with you in thinking that vernacular languages may be made medium of instruction up to the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University in Mathematics, History and Geography. It would be difficult for the students to go on with the higher parts of Geometry and Algebra in English in the college classes after reading those subjects in vernacular languages up to the Entrance Examination. They would take a long time to learn the peculiar terms which are explained at the beginning of those subjects and are learnt before the Entrance Examination. The mathematical terms rarely occur in books on Literature; sothere is every likelihood of the boys, taught under the proposed system, failing at the F. A. Examination. It is not a surmise, I say so from my personal experience. The Jessore Zilla school was on vernacular basis i, e, History, Geography and Mathematics written in Bengali were taught to the boys up to 5th class. Except the brilliant students the boys going up o the 4th class could not go on with the boys who were taught those subjects in English. The boys of Vernacular basis could not under stand miscellaneous examples involving terms explained at the beginning of Arithmetic and Geometry. And cqnsequently became deficient in Mathe
