Modern Review June 1928

With that noble spirit of sympathetic understanding he 8'2-2"660 THE MODERN REVIEW FOR JUNE 1928 visited the countries of the Orient and became interested in the peoples of the East and worked and is still working for the fartherance of the cause of Human Brothehood. [...] In January 1855 u start wa4 made in carrying out its provisions in Bengal by the appointment of a Director of Public Instruction (in succession to the Council of Education) and shortly afterwards by the constitution of the University Committee —of which Vidyasagar was elected a member in order to prepare a scheme for the establishment of Universities at the Presidency towns of Calcutta Madras [...] forwarded to you with this office letter of the 23rd ultimo three or four of the zilas in the neighbourhood of Calcutta being selected by yourself in communication wit the Pandit for the introduction of the scheme. [...] The following details based on the Padit's report on the Normal school will give the reader more of its early history.: For want of a separate building the Normal School was located in the Sanskrit College an] was open only in the morning as no spare rooms were available in the College building during the usual college hours.§ The school consisted of two classes the higher of which was under A [...] It aupe.aring most expdient to open the schools first in the district of Nadia I submitted a report on the 25th to the Director (through the Inspector of Schools South Bengal) soliciting his sanction to the establishment of scnools in.that district and to the commenc..meat of operations from the first of July following for which I made the necessary arrangements.