REPORT OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF THE PRESIDENCY OF FORT WILLIAM IN BENGAL, FOR THE YEAR 1836. CALCUTTA: PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, CIRCULAR ROAD. 1837. No. 355. TO THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. GENERAL DEPARTMENT. HONORABLE SIRS AND GENTLEMEN, I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your annual report on the examinations of the Students at the various Colleges and seminaries under your supervision for the year 1836, and in reply to convey to the Committee the request of the Right Honorable the Governor General of India in Council that the report may be printed for the information of all persons interested in the progress of education in this country. 2nd. His Lordship in Council desires me at the same time to express to the Committee his acknowledgments of the earnestness of their endeavours to extend the benefits of useful instruction, and to communicate to the natives of this country the means of acquiring a competent knowledge of the languages and sciences of Europe, and of improving their acquaintance with the vernacular dialects used for business and for the ordinary intercourse of life. 3rd. His Lordship in Council, without following the report through the detail of operations in their bearing upon each Institution, directs me to add generally the expression of his approbation of the proceedings of the Committee for the period reported upon. I have the honor to be, &c. Council Chamber, the 30th August, 1837.} H.T. PRINSEP, Secretary to Government. |