The Journal of the National Indian Association In Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India August 1882

Sir George Campbell with the sanction of the Supreme Government diverted the endowment to other purposes pledging the Government to support the College ; and he ordered that the privilege of a twelve-rupee fee should be continued to Muhammadan students in consideration of the intetions of the founder. [...] Similarly the greater part of the cost of maintaining the E.6jshabi College is obtained from the interest of a capital sum made over to Government by a munificent nobleman of the district for the purpose; and again the cost of the Cuttack College is largely defrayed by the interest of an endowment fund collected in the Province of Orissa. [...] The endowments of the Kishnaghur Rdjshahi and Cuitack Colleges and the prosperous career of the Metropolitan College surely offer us rich promise of the gradual lightening of that part of the burden of the higher education that now falls on the shoulders of the Government. [...] necessary for the Secretary of State himself in the explanatory Despatch of 1859 authoritatively declared one of the objects of the earlier Despatch to have been—these are the exact words— the maintenance of the existing Government Colleges and Schools of a high order and the increase of their number when necessary." But it is said that Despatch laid still more stress on the need - for the [...] It is extremely desirable that the controversies which have been going on for the last twenty-five years about the Despatch of 1854 should be brought to an end and if the result of the inquiries instituted by the eminent men who form that Commission is to dispel some of the popular fallacies which prevail regarding the working of the Despatch and to put an end to the petty jealousies which at p