The Educational Review. A Monthly Record for India October 1897

The alreadoverworked Principal Professor of Mathematics and Physiography Curator of the Government Book DepOt Honorary Diretor of the Observatory the Educational Secrtary to the Dewan the President of the Goernment Lecture Committee Superintendent of the Agricultural Demonstration Farm-yard and the Industrial School of Arts and the friend protector and official apologist of his [...] In connection with this it is of interest to read the recent statement of Lord George Hamilton in the House of Commons that it was the policy of the Government to multiply the industries of the country thus rendering the population less dependent on the rainfall." The reception accorded to Professor Bose on the Continent has been very cordial. [...] Two events which have recently called the attention of the public in Ceylon to eductional matters are the awaril of the English University scholar4hip and the publication of the report of the Director of Public Istruction for 1896. [...] Quintin Hogg whose philanthropic labours on behalf of the children of the poorer classes of the central districts of London had in the course of years resulted in the acquisition of an unequalled practical knowledge of the means beSt adapted to combat with the difficulties of their surroundings during the period of adolescence and early manhood. [...] The main entrance is in the centre of the building and to the right of it on the ground floor are the offices and at the end an electrical laboratory.