VIZAGAPATAM.
wife, and the managing committee of this bequest took over the Hindu College on 1st April 1899 as a basis for the construction of such an institution. An imposing new building of stone is being now constructed to house it. A hostel for 50 students has already been opened. About 50 boys, most of them Bráhmans, are reading in the college classes.
Both these colleges contain upper secondary departments, that attached to the latter of them having as many as 450 boys on its rolls. There are five other schools of that grade for boys; namely, the municipality's high school at Bimlipatam, the two kept up in Vizagapatam by the London Mission and the Roman Catholic Mission, the Mahárája's school at Bobbili (founded in 1865), and a private institution — the Ripon Hindu Theological school at Vizianagram, The London Mission school arose from the amalgamation, in 1845, of their smaller institutions. That of the Catholic Mission is known as St. Aloysius' and its 180 pupils are practically all of them Europeans, Eurasians or Native Christians. The staff consists of seven European priests, four Brothers and two lay teachers, the industrial and technical classes are a special feature, and the institution boasts a band and a cadet corps 60 strong. The Mahárája's school at Bobbili accepts no aid from public funds.
English lower secondary schools number twelve, of which one is supported by the Anakápalle municipal council; eight, those at Narasapatam, Yellamanchili, Kasimkóta, Chódavaram, Pálkonda, Jeypore, Gunupur and Párvatípur, are kept up by the local boards; one, at Sálúr, is managed by the Lutheran Mission there; another, at Bimlipatam, belongs to the Canadian Baptists; and the twelfth, at Vizianagram, is managed privately. The two last receive no aid from Provincial or local funds. The two schools in the Agency are shown in the official returns as being specially maintained for aboriginal and hill tribes, but of their 280 pupils none appear to belong to either of these classes.
Government maintains training-schools for masters at Vizagapatam and Gunupur, and one for mistresses and a medical school at Vizagapatam. Several of the schools have technical classes, those at St. Aloysius' teaching telegraphy, shorthand, type-writing and freehand drawing.
Sanskrit or Véda schools numbering 21 and costing Rs. 5,000 annually appear in the official returns. Chief among them are that maintained by the Rája at Vizianagram, in which 60 students are taught at an annual outlay of Rs. 3,000, and that at Sálúr referred to on p. 307. It is interesting to note that in several
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