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( 61 ) FROM BABU LOKEN ATH CHAKRAVART, B. A. Second master, Boalia' Coll. School. TO The Hon’ble Justice Gooroodas Banerjee, M. A. D. L., And other members of the Committee appointed to consider the question of larger introduction of the Vernacular Languages into the curriculum for the University Examinations. Rampur Boalia, 27th January, 1895. SIRS, In answering your particular questions relating to larger introduction of the Vernacular Languages into "the curriculum for the University Examination, I would first state my general views on points that, I think, are involved in a consideration of the subject. I think it will not be disputed that, as long as the English Government continues in this country, a good knowledge of English will continue to be not only a passport to preferment in service under the Government but also an indispensable element in the fitness of a person to take any leading part in movements affecting the welfare, political or other, of the country as a whole. Apart from considerations of this nature, there is the patent fact that, in reccnt times, the best writers of the country have been men with a liberal English education, the improvement in the country's literature of the day having been owing to ideas and modes of thought that were the result of such education. Any course of action, therefore, that is likely to affect unfavorably the acquisition of a good knowledge of English will be, I fear, of doubtful wisdom, specially in view of the agitation that is being carried on by the country to secure, for the children of the soil, a larger sharein its higher administration, by means of Simultaneous Civil Service Examinations in this country and in England. Though it is not undesirable that encouragement should be given to the study of the Wernacular Languages, by their recognition by the University, the fact of their not being so recognised has, in my thinking, scarcely any material bearing upon the progress of the country's literature. No doubt, some impetus would be given to production, in the Vernacular Ianguages, of higher text books in the branches of University education other than English and the classics, if instruction in these branches of