( as ) , , ir meins of she wernaculars the modium of intres **. the highest university standard is doubtless the ultimate gaol owards which thing alyst end. . Nevertheless the time has not yet come, it fiers to its fer maktogethe verriaculars the medium of instasetipn and examination in History, Geography and Matherhatics for Fntennae candidates, and this for the following masons. For a long tise yet to come Eaglish must remain the agedium of instruction in all the branches of study in dolleges, and so the teaching of Mathematics, at aby rate, up to the Entrance examination through the yernaculars would make it a mattpr of great difficulty for Entrance undergraduates to enter spon their mathematical studies in colleges through the medium of English. Again, history textbooks in English widen the sphere of the English reading of our students, and are thus calculated to increase their knowledge of this language. The displacement of English history text-books by Vernacular ones would therefore, our sehool system remaining the same in other respects, do more harm thaa good. Geography text-books in English are of Much dess accourst towards teaching the language than history textbooks, and if they were east out, there would be no harm, I think, if geographical names, as they are in English, wete taught, while the subject itself was taught in the Vernacular, History and geography are, however, subjects that hang together in our educational system, and so it seems to me best that both these subjects should satinue to be taught through the medium of English. . . . . . . The proposal that Histnry, Gogeophy and Mathematics from the 4th class downwards of Entrance shools should be taught thfough the pupil's vernacular appears to me as a desirable reform. The acquisition of what is technically called real knowleege would be facilitated by such a step and the time and energy that would thus be spared to the pupil might be applied to the more extended study of English asa language. Learning Geography and English Grammar and Mathematics through the medium of English is popularly believed to help the acquisition of English as a language. But the phases of the language that these subjects treated in English present, the pupil has to grapple with before he is any thing like forward in his know ledge ofte English of daily life, and this appears to me a hindrance rather hing Geography &c. through the medium of the Vernacular Geographical names as they are in English and English technical terms should hawe to be tạNghi, in order that education at the lower stage may be a fitting pteparation for that at the higher. After the results of the innovation made in respect of the lower stage are seen, the time would come for pushing up the innovation to the Entrance stage.
