Daily average attendance of the Students of the Government Mahomedan College, from 1st January to 31st December, 1847. 110 115 134 187 | 151 | 184 | 180 | 180 | 177 | 183 | 172 | 170 |1,923 | | | | 1 160 50 26 32 Anglo-Persian Department. 22 22 18 40 20 During the past year an Anglo-Arabic class was sanction Changes in instruc tive Establishment. ed for such of the students of the Arabic Department as wished to study English in addition to Arabic: Muoluvee Wuheedoon-Nubee, Second Master of the English Department, was appointed to take charge of the class on a salary of rupees 100 per mensem. Muoluvee Wuheedoon-Nubee's office in the English Department has been divided into two Masterships, as the number of students in his class was considered too large to be efficiently taught by one master. Mr. Holyoake and Moonshee Deen Moohummud have been appointed to the vacancies on salaries of rupees 50 and 30 per month respectively. The Government has been pleased to direct Sub-Assistant Surgeon Koonj Biharee Chatterjee to afford his professional advice to the pupils and professors of the Calcutta Mudrussa, in addition to his duties at the Hindu and Sanscrit Colleges. The Arabic scholarship examinations were conducted by Lieutenant Colonel Riley, Secretary Arabic Scholar- of the Institution, whose report is ship Examinations, subjoined, and was approved and con firmed by the Council of Education: "I have the honor to state for the information of the Council of Education, that the Senior and Junior scholarship examinations of the students of the Government Mudrusuh College, Calcutta, were held in the Examination Hall on the 25th, 27th, 29th, and 30th of the last month (November,) under my personal superintendence. The different tests were fixed upon privately by myself in the Arabic Library, on the morning of each examination day, and such other measures were adopted as were calculated effectually to preclude the possibility of any thing being divulged before the proper time. "Previous to the issue of the tests, the Examination Hall was cleared of desks capable of holding writings or books, water was placed for drinking within the Hall, all the doors were closed, except the one before which the Examiner was seated, and outside of that door each and every candidate was separately searched for papers, &c. and then passed into the Examination Hall: when all were assembled within, the roll was called and candidates answered to their names, &c. The tests were then produced and affixed to the walls, and each candidate having taken his own copy, all returned to their separate seats, and the work of the day commenced. They were all the time so employed under my immediate observation, as well at that of the Native Assistant Secretary, Muoluvee Hafiz Uhmud Kubeer, and the Arabic Book Librarian and Law Professor, Muoluvee Ujeeb Uhmud. When each competing candidate had finished his work, he personally delivered his test answers to me. I wrote his name on the back of his papers, took charge of them, and when all had finished, packed them up in an envelope under seal, and daily brought them away in my own safe custody. "On the 25th of November, between the hours of 10 A. M., and 5 P. M., was the first Junior scholarship examination (Arabic) holden, Subjects-General Literature, Law, and Arabic Composition. Number of competing candidates on both days (25th and 27th) twenty. "On the 27th day of November, at the same hours, in like manner was holden the second Junior scholarship examination (Arabic.) Subjects-Grammar, Syntax, Principles of Law, and Algebra. "On the 29th day of November, at the same hours, and in the same manner, the first Senior scholarship examination (Arabic) was holden. Competing candidates in number, twenty-six on both days. SubjectsGeneral Literature, Arabic Prose and Verse Translation, and Arabic Composition. "On the 30th day of November, at the same hours, the second Senior scholarship examination (Arabic) was holden. Subjects-Logic and Rhetoric, Mathematics, Principles of Law, and Law. "Thus were the Mudrusuh College scholarship examinations completed within the four days; and after a scrupulous examination of all and every-the test answers in all the different sciences, the translation from Arabic into Persian and Oordoo, and from Oordoo into Arabic, I proceed to register claims for scholarships according to their different |