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THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTION.
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"6. After the said disruption, the remaining founders, namely Patitpavan Sen, Gangacharan Sen, and Baishnavadas alias Baishnavacharan Adhya, who had other works to do, having found by experience that Pundit Iswarachandra Vidyasagar was highly public spirited and thoroughly disinterested, and was best competent to manage the school, entrusted the management thereof to the said Pundit, and to Raja Pratapchandra Sinha, Ramanath Tagore, Hiralal Sil, Ramgopal Ghosh, and Rai Harachandra Ghosh Bahadur.

"7. In April 1861 the aforesaid gentlemen formed a Committee of Management of which Raja Pratapchandra Sinha was the President and the rest were members, and the Pundit was also the Secretary, and they laid down certain rules regarding the said school and its management." *** For convenience's sake we quote below the objects and rules of the School as found in another pamphlet, titled 'Rules of the Calcutta Training School', said to have been published by Vidyasagar in 1862, for distribution to the pupils.

"Committee of Management:

"Raja Pratap Chunder Sing Bahadoor, President.

Babu Rama Nath Tagore,
,, Hira Lai Seal,
,, Ram Gopal Ghose, Members.
,, Rai Hara Chunder Ghose Bahadoor,

Iswara Chunder Vidyasagar, Member and Secretary.