No.1818
103
FROM
C . W. I MR I EE S QUI RE , C. S ,
O F F G . A S S T . S E C Y . T O T H E C H I E F C O M M I S S I O N E R ,
Central Provinces,
TO'
Central Provinces.
Dated Nagpur, the 26th May 1882.
S I R ,
I
am directed to acknowledge receipt of the annual report on the
Working of the Nagpur Medical School for 1881-82, with your covering letter
No. 2331-C. C. of the 8th instant.
2 . T h e r e w e r e 2 9 s t u d e n t s u n d e r i n s t r u c t i o n t h r o u g h o u t t h e y e a r , — 3
in their third year, 13 in their second, and 13 . in their first. The third years.
students were those attached to the school in 1879 after examination. They all
passed out creditably. The second and first year students were chosen from the
successful competitors at the High School examinations. Of the earlier batch
there were 14 originally, but one resigned soon after the school opened. The
remaining 13 worked with great assiduity during the past year and gained
excellent marks. So did the first year students, all save one, who is reported to
have gained only 30 per cent of the full marks awarded at the examinations.
He is recommended for dismissal; and, as he failed signally in all the subjects
of examination, the Chief Commissioner is constrained to accord his sanction to
this recommendation.
It appears that the marks gained by the students are unusually high, as
night be expected from students successfully trained for the High School
examinations. I am to express the gratification with which the Chief' Commis-
sioner receives your assurance of the high character of the examination in which
the students were able to do so well, and which, he is confident, was so conducted
as to exercise their thinking powers and not merely their memories.
3. As to the new system of selecting probationers, you remark that it appears
to have worked admirably, and the Chief Commissioner concurs in this opinion.
The Principal's report shows the students so selected to have passed unusually
good examinations, and only 4 of them, out of 26, to have been punished or
reprimanded. This is good conduct indeed, considering the temptations to
which the students are exposed, and shows that the class of students obtained
under the new system is decidedly superior to those obtained under the old. Of
the last batch of the platter, 6 of the 13 who completed their 3 years' course had
to be dismissed, while of the students selected under the new system only one
has as yet been recommended for dismissal.
4. In all probability then there will a year hence be 13 promising students
at the end of their course, and in the following year 12 more; while 10 students
will begin their studies in the coming session. You. raise the question as to
what is to be . done with these men, and with the school. If the number of
selected students be reduced to the requirements of the Province, their education
would be very expensive, and the propriety of closing the school and sending
our students to Calcutta or elsewhere for their medical studies would have to be
seriously considered. It will be better to discuss this question separately;
and the Chief Commissioner will be glad of any suggestions from you on this