Statement exhibiting the number of Scholarshipholders and Pay and Free Pupils of the College of Moohummud Mohsin and its Subordinate Institutions, on the 30th of September 1851. Statement exhibiting the number of Students studying different languages in the College of Moohummud Mohsin and its Subordinate Institutions, on the 30th September 1851. Amount of Schooling fees collected from 1st October 1849 to 6881 4 0 Branch School. 2401 0 0 30th September 1850, Amount of Schooling fees collected from 1st October 1850 to 30th September 1851, Schooling fees receivable in September 1850,... The changes which have taken place Changes in the in the establishment of teachers during Establishment. the past year are as follow: In April last Babu Bissonauth Sing, teacher of the second class, section B, of the junior school, was transferred to the Calcutta Sanscrit College. Mr. M. Gregory, formerly an assistant teacher of the Government School at Jessore, became his successor. The services of Hurrochunder, pundit of the Mudrissa, were dispensed with from the last day of July, in consequence of the abolition of the Bengali class of that department, which was under his charge. The Infant School at Hooghly lost its head master, Mr. T. Gomess, who was unfortunately drowned, while bathing in the river, in the month of August. The Council did not deem it advisable to appoint a successor. None of the professors or teachers of the English department have required to take leave of absence during the past year, except for very short periods. The business of the College has gone on steadily and without interruption. In the Arabic department the case has been somewhat different. Mouluvee Ghoolam Mukdhoom, the Professor of Mathematics, was absent on account of severe sickness for about six weeks in the months of December and January; and Mouluvee Tofuzzul Hossein, teacher of Urdu, was absent on medical certificate in the same months, and for about the same period. It was not considered necessary to appoint any one to officiate for the former, the students being always for the greater part of the day under the charge of the head Mouluvees. Gholam Mehdi, an ex-student of the Mudrissa, officiated as teacher of the Urdu class during the absence of the Mouluvee. The abolition of the Bengali class of the Mudrissa and of the Infant School at Hooghly has been alluded to. It will be proper to take more particular notice of these two important events. In June last, the principal reported to the Council as follows, on the state of the Bengali class of the Mudrissa. "The Bengali class of the Mudrissa is in a declining state, so much so as to make it questionable whether it ought to be continued. The following statement exhibits the average daily attendance of the class, since the re-opening of the College in November last up to the present time: Number Present. Number Absent. 14 "The above exhibits the result of thirty visits made to the class at different times of the day, and extending through a period of several months. In one instance there were four pupils present, and in another three; somewhat oftener two, but most generally only one. "The class was in much the same state last year. It does not appear that there is any real desire in the Mudrissa to learn Bengali, and it may be a question for the consideration of the Council whether the time has not arrived for abolishing it as useless, a sufficient time having been allowed for trying what must have been regarded at first as a very interesting experiment. "The smallness of the class cannot be attributed to any deficiency in the pundit, but to causes which are not under his controul, the chief being, as already mentioned, the absence of a taste for Bengali amongst the Moohummudans." On receiving this unfavourable report, the Council determined to abolish the Bengali class. Admission of Pupils, On the death of Mr. T. Gomess, it became a question whether the Infant School at Hooghly should be continued. The Council determined to abolish it, " as provision for the education of Infants now exists in the Hooghly district." There has been some falling off during the past year in the number of pupils. In the English department of the College the Schooling fees, &c. number was 12 less, and in the Branch School 18 less, in September 1851 than in the same month last year. There has also been some falling off in the schooling fees of the Branch School, which, however, is more than compensated by an increase in the College. On the whole there is a slight increase of about 100 rupees in the amount of schooling fees contributed during the year. The falling off in the number of pupils is accounted for by the dismissal of about 90 boys, chiefly for arrears of schooling, a few on account of their age, which rendered further continuance at school undesirable, and a few others for misconduct. Among those removed on account of their advanced age must be included Meer Hossein Ali, Raqueebooddeen and Omed Ali, three scholarshipholders of the Mudrissa, who were beyond the age at which it appeared advisable they should attend a place of instruction, it being high time that they should enter upon the active duties of life. The two former were 30 years of age, and the last about 28. There used, in former years, to be a considerable number of Christian youths in the College; but since the establishment of the Free Church School in the immediate neighbourhood, most of them have migrated to that Institution. |