The Indian Journal of Education. a Monthly Review July 1897

his appointment however goes a good442 deal further than a mere recognition of his merits on the Fart of the Madras Government for it shows that that Government is inclined to follow the _ead of the other Presidencies and Provinces of India in the matter of the choice of its Director of Public Istruction. [...] In July 1896 the Government of India's Resolution regarding the re-organisation of the educational services of India appeared and in one of its paragraphs an extract from the Despatch of the Secretary of State was given which must have raised qualms in the breasts of many of our senior departmental officers. [...] The immediate effect of the issue of the minute was the addition to the establisment of the Circumlocution Department of a clerk on Rs. [...] The Director and Commissioner is now more than ever the terror of district officers for he moves from one district to another accepting the hospitality of Collectors and Sub-Collectors and making personal enquiries about the chances of the Medicament being used in the areas which he favours with his presence." M A THE MA TICS AT THE ALL AHABAD UNIVERSITY The action of the Syndicate of the Allah [...] Mere cram of the dry bones of disjointed facts found in the current text-books without any idea of the codition of the people in the past as well as in the present is worse than useless and is positively injurious to the brain as loading the memory with mere raff.