"To
- "J. Sutcliffe Esq. M. A.
- "Registrar to the Calcutta University.
"Sir,
"We, the Managers of the Metropolitan Institution, request that you will be so good as to lay before the Syndicate this our application for its affiliation to the Calcutta University up to the First Arts Examination.
"As required by the rules for affiliation, we hereby declare that the Institution has the means of educating up to the First Arts Examination standard.
"We annex a statement showing the provision contemplated to be made for the instruction of the students up to the same standard after the sanction for affiliation is accorded. We beg leave to state that we will employ senior scholars of the pre-university era or graduates of the Calcutta University as professors of the Institution.
"We hereby assure the Syndicate that the Institution, if affiliated, will be maintained on the proposed footing for five years, and trust that this assurance will be deemed satisfactory.
| "Calcutta Metropolitan Institution "The 25th January 1872. |
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"We have the honour to be, "Sir, "Your most obedient Servants "Isvar Chanda Sarma, "Dwaraka Nath Mitter "Krito Dass Pal |
