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The marriage of one of His Highness's daughters with the Nawab Zafer Jung Bahadur, the younger son of Sir Kurshedjah Bahadur, is also talked of.
His Excellency the Minister has accorded his sanction to raising the Aurungabad High School to the status of a second grade College. The widom of this step is not apparent. When the only College in His Highness's Dominions and that in the capital, gets but half rations' with several well-managed High Schools about the place to feed it, it is not difficult to conceive what sort of an existence the College in Aurungabad will have without even a single High School in the District—of course But the excepting its own High School Department to do so. Hyderabad Educational Department is divine-and it can create something even out of nothing. Sometime ago I saw a circular sent round by the Nawah Imad-ul-Dowlah Bahadur, our Director of Public Instruction, to the effect that six scholarships had been founded by the Government and that they would be offered annually to the first six matriculates, from a Government or an aided school, in these Dominions. And I was wishing to con- gratulate those that had had a hand in this-one could easily see what an impetus this would give to the spread of higher education here-when I heard of the sanction above referred 10. The step is a most ill-advised one, and if it tends to any- thing at all it will be to hamper the hands of the heads of the only First grade College here, namely, the Nizam College.
