PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS OF 1853-54.

I. The examination of the pupils of the Hindu College for Senior and Junior English Scholarships; of the pupils of the Howrah, Ooterparah, and Baraset Schools for Junior Scholarships; and of candidates for insertion in the lists directed to be furnished by the Council of Education, in accordance with the Resolution of October 10th, 1844, will be held in the Town Hall, upon the dates and at the hours specified below:

DATES.

Senior Scholarships.

Literature Proper, · ·

SUBJECTS.

Junior Scholarships.

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Grammar. 3rd,.. Moral Philosophy & Political Economy, History.

Saturday April 1st,

4th,... History,

The examinations will be held daily from 10 A. M. to 13 P. M., and from 2 P. M. to 5 P. M. precisely, at which hours all answers to the morning and afternoon papers, respectively, must be given in. Candidates are recommended to be in attendance a quarter of an hour earlier than the beginning of each examination, in order that no time may be lost in taking their places.

II. The subjects for the Essays will be set, and the papers of questions will be prepared, in strict accordance with the scholarship rules, by the gentlemen whose names are appended to each.

Junior.

The questions for Junior Scholarships will be set and the answers examined by the officers of the different Colleges for their own Institutions, in strict accordance with the existing standards and rules on the subject.

The Local Committees will perform the same duty for the respective Zillah Schools over which they preside.

III. The following subjects were selected in 1852 as the standard in Literature, History, Pure and Mixed Mathematics, from which the examination papers of the present year will be prepared:

The first two Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, as in Richardson's Selections.

History. The first three Chapters of Macaulay's History of England.
Moral Philosophy.-Smith's Moral Sentiments.

Political Economy.-Smith's Wealth of Nations, Vol. 1.

MATHEMATICS.

Differential and Integral Calculus.

Optics, (as in Potter.)

Spherical Trigouometry and Astronomy, (as in Brinkley.)

2ND CLASS.

LITERATURE.

Same as first Class, with the exception of Smith's Wealth of Nations.

MATHEMATICS.

Newton, (Sections I., II. and III.)

Elements of Differential Calculus.

Hydrostatics, (as in Webster.)

3RD CLASS.

LITERATURE.

Prose.-Bacon's Essays.

Poetry.-Childe Harold, Canto 3rd, as in Richardson's Selections.
Moral Philosophy.-Smith's Moral Sentiments.

History.-The first three Chapters of Macaulay's History of England.

Analytical Conic Sections.

MATHEMATICS.

Mechanics, (as in Potter or Snowball.)

4TH CLASS.

LITERATURE.

Prose.-Addison's Spectator from the end of the Criticism on Milton,
(Calcutta Edition.)

Poetry.-Akenside and Johnson, as in Richardson's Selections.
History.-Keightley's History of England, Vol. II.

MATHEMATICS.

Euclid, Algebra, Plane Trigonometry.

VERNACULAR.

All candidates for Senior English Scholarships will be required to translate into their Vernacular tongue, two moderately difficult passages, one in prose, the other in verse, from some classical English author; to translate a very difficult passage from the Vernacular into English; and to answer searching questions in Vernacular Etymology and Syntax, as well as exhibit an intimate acquaintance with the Grammar of his own language.

Junior Scholarships.

LITERATURE.

Prose. Selections from Goldsmith's Essays, (Calcutta Edition.)
Poetry.-Selections from Pope, Prior and Akenside, Poetical Reader,
No. 3, Part 2nd, (last Edition.)

History.-Keightley's History of England, Vol. I.

Grammar.-Crombie, Part II.

Geography and Map Drawing.

MATHEMATICS.

Euclid, Books VI. and XI.

Algebra, to the end of Simple Equations, Arithmetic.

VERNACULAR.

The text-books are in Bengali, the Punchabinshati and Tutwa Bodhenee Putrika; in Urdu, the Bagh-o-Bahar and Khirud Afroz; in Hindi, the Betal Pacheesee and Marshman's History of India; and in Oorya, the Readers and Elements of Natural Philosophy, published by the Calcutta School Book Society.

The candidate must also be able to translate into the Vernacular, such passages from English authors, as may be selected.

Supplementary Course

OF

Study for the five months preceding the

EXAMINATIONS OF THE PRESENT SESSION.

Senior Scholarships.

FIRST CLASS.

LITERATURE.

Prose.-Bacon's Novum Organum.

Poetry.-Shakespear's Tempest.

Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel; and so much of Young's
Poems as are contained in Richardson's Selections.

History.-Robertson's Introduction to the History of Charles V.
Political Economy.-Smith's Wealth of Nations, Books 2nd and 3rd.

SCIENCE

Herschell's Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy, Parts 1st

and 2nd.

SECOND CLASS.

The same with the exception of Political Economy.

THIRD CLASS.

Prose. The same as 1st and 2nd Classes.

Poetry.-Gray's Poems as contained in Richardson's Selections.
History. As in the 1st and 2nd Classes.

FOURTH CLASS.

Prose. The Spectator, from the beginning to the Criticism on Milton.
Poetry-Cowper's Poems, as in Richardson's Selections.
History.-Keightley's England, Vol. I.—The Tudor Reigns.

Junior Scholarships.

Prose.-Mor al Tales-Encyclopedia Bengalensis, No. X.
Poetry.-Poetical Reader, Part I, No. 3 (Calcutta Edition.)
Crombie's Etymology and Syntax, Part I.

IV. The Senior Scholarship answers will be examined by the gentlemen who set the questions; the Junior Scholarship answers will be examined by the officers of the respective Colleges; those of the branch Schools will be examined by the officers of the Colleges to which the Schools are attached ; and those of Zillah Schools will be examined by the Local Committees presiding over them.

The Arabic scholarship answers will be examined by Dr. Sprenger.

All reports of the results of the examinations are to be furnished before the end of the long vacation.