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THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTION.
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this will be done in each class separately, since it has been found that such instruction conveyed to several classes simultaneously is comparatively ineffective, owing to the inequality of age and attainments. The services of an efficient staff of teachers have been secured.

"As in the opinion of the Committee of Management the success of instructions given in schools mainly depends on efficient and careful supervision, they have appointed an experienced officer as Assistant Secretary, whose sole duty will be that of supervision, watching over the operations of the Institution in all its details with vigilance and care. This important function is generally performed by Head Masters, in addition to their principal duty of preparing the first class for the Entrance Examination. Experience has proved that both these duties cannot be efficiently performed by one individual, however talented he may be.

"Rules.

"1. The Institution shall be named the Calcutta Training School.

"2. It shall consist of three departments, namely, the Infant, the Junior, and the Senior Departments.

"3. The object of the Institution is to give an efficient elementary education to Hindu youths in the English as well as the Bengali language and literature.