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The Collegian & Progress of India. No. 1 17 July 1920

1920

In the field of higher education there has been a fair increase in the number of students The number of students taking courses in Arts Science and Law on the rolls of the two colleges in Rangoon affiliated to the Calcutta University was at the end of the year under report 800 as against 725 at the end of the year 1917-18. [...] In short the rapid epansion of mass education with a view to make children female as well as male of all comunities literate the gradual diffusion of higher literary and scientific education through the medium of the vernacular and steady development of the practical and vocational-side of education have been the special features of the quinquennium. [...] THE dispute regarding the abolition of the fish market south of the Calcutta Uni Senate House (Calcutta) has versify and the assumed serious proportions Fish Market and the matter has been placed in' the hands of the University Solicitor with instructions to institute proceedings in the High Court to restrain the Government of Bengal from acting in the manner proposed by them. [...] OF special interest to the students of " nationalist art" in India is Back to the circumstance that like the Asia pre-Raphaelites of England and Germany and the Gothicists of France who in the nineteenth century sought rejuveation of art in the inspiration from ancient and early-medieval masters young Russia also looked back to the Russian " primitives" i. e. to the Oriental elements in Old [...] Looking at our present system from the simply conventional point of view only as our forefathers looked at education as cosisting in the training of the character the development of the intellectual faculties the furnishing of the memory with knowledge of useful facts and the training of the body to health and strength we find it defective on every point.
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Frontmatter
1-1 unknown view
Occasional Notes
1-4 unknown view
The World of Culture
5-6 unknown view
The Coming Great Change in Education
7-10 J.B. Petavel, R.E. view
Indian Schools of To-morrow
10-12 N.C. Daruwalla view
A Patriot of the East
12-15 T.L. Vaswani view
Sir Asutosh Mukerjee: a Study
15-17 P.C. Ray view
Physical Education of our Children
17-22 Gqdavaris Misra view
The Universities
22-35 unknown view
Backmatter
36-36 unknown view

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