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Tej Narayan Jubilee College, Bhagalpur.

AFFILIATED, 1887.

This Institution was founded as a Middle Class School in the year 1883 under the patronage of the late Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur. The number on its rolls, however, rapidly increasing, it was, within two months of its foundation, raised to the status of a Higher Class Institution, with an endowment of Rs. 150 a month settled upon it by its patron and founder, Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur. In the year 1887, in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her Gracious Majesty's reign, it was raised to the rank of a Second Grade College, funds for the maintenance of the Institution in its higher status having been provided by Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur. In 1890 it was raised to the standard of a First Grade College, and a Law Department was added to it in the year. The total endowment, as it now stands, is Rs. 450 a month, of which Rs. 250 is the grant of Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur, Rs. 100 of Mr. Deep Narain Singh, the son of the founder and patron of the Institution, and another Rs. 100, the grant of the enlightened and publicspirited Kumars of Banelli.

2. The tuition fee in the General Department of the College for the M.A. Class is Rs. 6; for the B.A. classes Rs. 5; and for the F.A. classes Rs. 4. In the Law Department, students going through the B.L. classes have to pay Rs. 6, and those studying for the Pleadership Examination Rs. 5 a month, as fee. The admission fee in either of the Departments is equal in amount to the tuition fee in each class. A like fee is charged on students in either department at the time of their withdrawal. The College enjoys a Scholarship of Rs. 10 a month tenable for two years, granted to it by its endower and designated "Bayley Scholarship." This Scholarship, according to the wishes of the son of its endower, Mr. Deep Narayan Singh, has now been divided into two Scholarships of Rs. 6 and Rs. 4 respectively, each of which carries also a halffree studentship with it. They are awarded to the two best boys of the suc cessful Entrance candidates of the Collegiate School who fail to obtain Junior Scholarships, provided they continue their studies in the College. It owns further three gold medals and a silver medal. Of the three gold medals, one, which is the grant of the late lamented Babu Romanath Ghose, Zemindar, Calcutta, is designed for award to the student who distinguishes himself the most among the candidates from the College that come off successful in the B.A. Examination; the other, the grant of Nawab Begum Shahar Banoo Saheba of Khagra, is intended for the best Muhammadan student among the successful B.A. candidates from the College; and the third, the grant of Babus Raghunandan Prasad and Judunandan Prasad, Zemindars, Golaghat, Bhagalpur, is intended for the best Behari student among the successful F.A. candidates from the College. The silver medal, the gift of Syed Muhammed Nasir Khan, a local Zemindar, is designed to be awarded to the boy that passes highest in the Entrance Examination among the Behari candidates from the Collegiate School. There are twenty Free Studentships in the General Department.

3. The Institution is under the control of a Committee, the President of which is Mr. Deep Narayan Singh, son of the late Rai Tej Narayan Singh, Bahadur, the endower of the Institution. It owns a spacious building, constructed at the cost of the endower and his son, Mr. Deep Narayan Singh. It has also a Boarding House attached to it, which was erected at the cost of the endower. An addition has been made to it in a two-storied building erected at the cost of the Institution.

4. The College also possesses a library, which contains books bearing on the University course as well as most of the standard works in different

subjects of study, and a Laboratory. With a view to additional improvements in both, Mr. Deep Narayan Singh has recently made over to the College the sum of Rs. 10,000.

This Institution was started as a higher class English School teaching up to the Entrance standard, in the year 1883, by Babu Bisseswar Singh, Zemindar of Kulharya, in the district of Shahabad, and Pleader, practising at Patna. It was founded with the object of a wider diffusion of high English education among the people of Behar, and of bringing it within the reach of men of limited means. The success which attended the first year of the infant Institution encouraged the proprietor to raise it to the status of a College, teaching up to the standard of the F.A. Examination, and it was affiliated to the Calcutta University with the name of the Behar National College in September, 1889.

In the year 1892, this Institution was raised to the B.A. standard, and a Law class was added to it in which instruction is given for the Pleadership and B.L. Examinations.

In November, 1900, a fund under the name of "Students' Mutual Aid Fund" was started for helping poor students with stipends, books, medical attendance, etc. The expenses are met by subscriptions from Students, Professors, and the Proprietor of the College, and from such outsiders as have sympathy for the movement.

Advanced religious Instruction for Hindus as well as Mahomedans has been provided for in all the College Classes.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

(1) Two Scholarships, each of Rs. 10 a month, tenable for two years, are awarded to the students who pass the Entrance Examination in the first division, standing first and second from the Collegiate School, and continue their studies in the College.

(2) One Scholarship of Rs. 14 a month, tenable for two years, is awarded to the student who passes the F.A. Examination in the first division, standing first from the College, and continues his studies in the College.

Babu K. K. Singh, B.A., B.L., has promised a gold medal to the student who stands first at the next B.A. Examination among the candidates sent up from the B N. College.

This College was opened as a High School, by the Canadian Mission, in Central India, in connection with the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and was raised to the F.A. standard in 1888, and subsequently to the B.A. standard in 1893.

A large and commodious building has been erected with Laboratories and Gymnasium attached, on a site granted by H.H. the Maharaja Holkar.

Some years ago a commodious hostel was built on the College Compound. Recently a second-a Christian Hostel-has been added.

This Institution was founded as a Higher Class English School, under the name of the "University Institution," on the 2nd June, 1893. The name, however, was shortly changed, and the Institution was recognised by the University of Calcutta under the name of the "Central Institution," which was altered again in 1896, into the one it at present bears. The unexpected success of the School, within a short period of its starting, and the connection of a number of experienced aducationists with its teaching staff, led to its being raised to the status of a Second Grade College in June, 1894.

The results for 1895, both at the Entrance and F A. Examinations having still further improved the prospects of the Institution, an application was made for its affiliation up to the B.A. Standard of the University, and it attained to the status of a First Grade College in January, 1896, and completed the full period of five years for which it was stipulated to be maintained under a certain constitution, in June, 1901.

The Institution is not supported by any private subscription or other aids, and its proprietary rights are absolutely in the hands of its founder, Babu Khudiram Bose.

The object of the Institution is to combine physical and moral training with the type of intellectual training adapted to the requirements of the University Examinations. Attention is paid to proper enforcement of discipline by precept and example, and examinations and exercises are held frequently, both in the School and College Departments. Both the third year and forth year B.A. classes have been at work since June, 1896, and several among the many graduates from this Institution have graduated with Honours in the course of these years. Monthly returns, showing the progress and conduct of the pupils in the School Department, are sent to the guardians whose suggestions in this connection are cordially received.

The monthly tuition-fee in the College Department B.A. classes is ordinarily, Rs. 4; in the F.A. and the higher classes of the School Department, Rs. 3; in the lower forms Rs. 2-8 and Rs. 2; and in the Infant Department,

Re. 1. The fee for admission to any class of the School Department is equal to a month's tuition-fee for the same.

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A number of scholarships named "Diamond Jubilee Scholarships,” “ Vidyasagar Scholarships," "P. K. Lahiri Scholarships," and "Bireswar Mitter Memorial Scholarships," to be awarded annually to such students of the Institution as would pass with distinction the B.A., F.A. and Entrance Examinations of the University, have been provided for, in addition to a lot of School Annual (Victoria Memorial) and College Monthly Examination Scholarships determined by the results of these examinations. Two silver-medals, named Durgacharan Sarcar Medal" and " Gaganchandra Bose Medal," are to be awarded by the Proprietor of the Institution, the one in memory of his youngest brother, and the other in memory of one of his distinguished pupils in another Institution, to two such students of the College Department as would secure a Duff Scholarship or the highest number of marks in Logic, at the F.A. Examination of the University for any year.

This Institution was founded as a school under the name of Bangabasi School in June, 1886. The success of the Institution during the first year of its existence led the proprietor to add to it a College Department, which was affiliated to the Calcutta University in Arts up to the F.A. Standard in June, 1887, and has since March, 1896, been affiliated in Arts up to the B.A. standard and in Law up to the B.L. standard.

The Institution consists of two departments, viz., the Arts Department and the Law Department. The Law Department teaches the full course of study prescribed for the B.L. and Pleadership Examinations, and the Arts Department teaches up to the M.A standard.

A new and special feature of the Arts Department is the arrangement for teaching the B course in Biology, in addition to Physics and Chemistry, and that of the Law Department is the opening of a Law Library for the use of the Law students of the College free of any charge. This Library is provided with two or more sets each of all standard Law-books ordinarily required by students, together with complete set of the Indian Law Reports and a few other Law Reports. In order to keep the students conversant with current Law Literature, the Library is supplied with copies of the Calcutta Gazette and the Gazette of India.