Report of the Progress of Education in the North-Western Provinces (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...general condition is healthy, and that "the teaching throughout the year has been equal and good. The Third Class obtains "also an average of over a third marks, which is as much as can be expected from "students subjected to a paper examination for the first time. In Mathematics both "these classes do better than their compeers from other institutions. The credit of this "is due to the strict discipline and sound system of tuition kept up by Master Sukhdeo "Bux, by whom alone these classes have been prepared in their mathematical studies. "20.--This review of the results of the Calcutta and Departmental Examinations "proves, I think, that, relatively to other Colleges, the College of which I have been in "charge has not lost ground;--that our absolute performances are on a par with the "average achievements of former years and that the year's work, though productive of no very signal success, has nevertheless been steady and satisfactory, entitling the "institution to a fair meed of praise. "22.--Condensing into a general statement my impressions of the year's progress, "I should pronounce the greater advance to have been made in the School Department: "our College Classes have been too scanty in numbers for active competition to exist in 'them. The causes of this I have already dilated on; but the daily improving state "of the School Department gives me reason to hope that ere long we shall produce "a large number of both better trained and more earnest undergraduates, who, not "contented with a half education, will, for love of learning and for the sake of self"culture, prosecute their University studies with vigour to the end. So will they help "us to fulfil t...