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opened from the current session. Three teachers^[1] have been entertained for this special purpose and additions will be made to the instructive staff as the new department will be developed.

"We beg leave to assure the Syndicate that the Metropolitan Institution will be maintained on the proposed footing for five years at least.

Calcutta, 2nd April, 1864.

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"We have the honour to be, "Sir, "Your most obedient Servants (Sd.) "Portap Chandra Sing, „ "Hara Chandra Ghose, „ "Isvar Chanda Sarma,

Members of the Senate, Calcutta University.

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(Sd.) "Rama Nath Tagore "Ram Gopal Ghose."

On the death of Raja Pratap Chandra Sinha and Hara Chandra Ghosh in 1866, the sole responsibility of the management of the Institution fell on the shoulders of Vidyasagar alone. But he was a man of very broad shoulders, and took up the burden cheerily. At the outset and for some time afterwards, Vidyasagar had to lay out a good amount from his private purse to make the school

1. "(1) Babu Ananda Krishna Bose, one of the most distinguished senior scholars of the Hindu College. He is a man of solid and extensive acquirements.
   "(2) Babu Herumbo Lal Gosain, graduated in the Calcutta University in January, 1864.
   "(3) Babu Mohesh Chunder Chatterjee, a distinguished senior scholar of the Sanskrit College."