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ment, was to deprive the teachers of the enjoyment of their sweet sleep during college hours. His next business was to prescribe fixed hours at which the teachers and the students must attend and leave the college. It is said that, in order to enforce the punctual attendance of the professors, Vidyasagar devised a novel plan. One day, seeing that the teachers were not come at the proper time, he went to the outer gates of the college-building and began to pace up and down in front of them. Pandit Bharat Chandra Siromani, the best and most learned professor of the College, thus addressed the other teachers:—"You see, friends, our late attendance, is no more to be tolerated. Vidyasagar indirectly warns us." From the next day, all the teachers were punctual, none came late. The students of the college had been used to go out of, and return to, their classes at their pleasure, during college hours. For them Vidyasagar introduced the pass system. No one was allowed to leave his class without a pass. Before Vidyasagar's time, everybody acted according to his sweet will, but Vidyasagar prescribed a rule that the permission of the Secretary must be obtained in every case. In short, Vidyasagar remodelled and regulated almost everything. But still there were some defects left. No perfection can be accomplished in a short time. He expunged all obscene texts from the books prescribed for the students of the college. He introduced a novel plan of teaching Grammar;