University of Dacca. The Calendar for the years 1921-2 1922-3 & 1923-4

Two main factors may be clearly distinguished in the origination of the scheme : first and foremost the desire of the Musalmans of Eastern Bengal to stimulate the educational progress of their comunity and secondly the desire of the Government of India to create a new type of residential and teaching University in India as opposed to the present 7ffiliating type. [...] The University of Dacca was in the first place to serve as an example and test of the ne \\*type of University and in the second to afford some relief to the congested state of the Calcutta University." The letter also drew attention to the particularly high level of general intelligence of the Hindu middle class population of Eastern Bengal and to the desirability of making accessible to the Mu [...] The resolution emphasised the desire of the Government of India that "the University should be of the teaching and residential and not of the federal type." and that "it should bind together the colleges of the city and should not include any college which is beyond the limits of the town." "The Committee acted with great promptitude and thorouemess. [...] The remainder of the building contains the University offices in the N. W. transept the Library partly in the S. E. transept partly along the main corridor the Lecture Rooms and Class Rooms for the Faculties of Arts and Law the* rooms for members of the staff in which they can interview students and the rooms of the Students' Union. [...] There are also three good tennis courts on the land to the south of the Hall Further the University Gymnasium is situated in the Dacca Hall athletic ground and instruction in Gymnastics is given to the students of the Hall on two days a week by the University Gymnastic Instructor.xii The Curzon Hall is used as the assembly hall for the students and it is proposed in the near future to provide a