The Bethune Collegiate School Magazine December 1936

The history of the gradual expansion of this Insttution is indeed the history of the growth development and progress of female education in the Province. [...] (c) Whenever the Managing Committee or any other authority of a recognised school outside Bengal or in the District of Darjee_ ling or in the Chittagong Hill Tracts applies to the effect that the pupils of such a school should be exempted from the necessity of writing their answers in any of the major Vernaculars recognised for the purpose by the University the Syndicate shall exempt them for a s [...] 2. In order to pass the Matriculation Examination a candidate must obtain 36 per cent of the total marks in Vernacular and in English 30 per cent of the total marks in each of the other subjects and 36 per cent of the total marks in the aggregate of all the compulsory papers. [...] In primitive days the ordinary women were the merest slaves doing the work of the tribe and eating what the men rejected ; but in the worship of the gods and in the mass of rigid taboos which regulated daily life the idea of woman figured largely. [...] Some of the early civilisations have entirely disappeared from the surface of the earth yet we can construct theories from the legends and myths of antiquity for example—in the cases of the early Egyptians and Sumerians.16 THE BETHUNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Women seem to have had in Mespotamia at any rate a position almost the same as that of men.