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( კo ) 3 From THE HoN'BLE H. J. S. CoTToN c.s., c.s.. &c. SIRS, Both proposals seem calculated to discourage a study of English, and are, I think,open to objection on that ground. Encouragement in the study of the vernaculars is no doubt very important but I do not look on it as a prime question of the University of Calcutta. H. J. S. Cotton, 4 From BABU DEBENDRA NATH BASU M.A., Lecturer in English Krishnagar College. . TTO THE SECRETARY, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. Dated, Krishnagar, the 20th January, 1895. DEAR SIR, I am in due receipt of the Circular letter dated the 5th instant issued in the name of your society and beg to offer the following remarks in reply to it. 1. I do not approve of the idea of History, Geography and Mathematics being taught to Entrance students in a vernacular, and that for the following reasons:-(a) If English remains the medium of instruction in those subjects in the college classes and candidates are to answer in English all the papers set in the higher University Examinations they shall have to learn anew and unlearn many things learnt before in a vernacular. This applies specially to Mathematics. (b) The practical difficulty of conducting the Entrance Examination in those subjects will be very great. It will be necessary to appoint as many sets of Examiners in each of them as there will be languages; and all attempt at securing uniformity in the Examination will be at an end. 2. I think the time has come for making the vernacular languages compulsory in the Entrance together with the classical ones. Most, if not all, of the vernaculars recognized by the University have advanced enough for the purpose. In order to introduce them all that is necessary in my opinion is to abolish the paper on translation from English into a vernacular, and to put in its place one on vernacular text-books. But I am afraid,