Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-17
COLLEGE CONTRIBUTIONS.

! cricket pavilion in the middle. The
cost of the buildings and grounds has
| approNimated more than 100000
COLLEGE CONTRIBUTIONS.
This college now has an endowment fund
of about $S5O,OOO contributed chiefly by
native rulers. 1t receives about $4,000
annual contributions from native States
and private persons and also nearly S2O,-
OOo subsidy year from the British Gov
ernment, Its total receipts, including tut
| ttOn fees, amount to more than $4,000 per
year. At present there are 2O2 students
at the school, of whom 1863 are princes
and nobility of the different States of
Rajputana, and the remainder are from
| Baroda, the United Provinces, Nepal,
| Orissa IIyderabad, Kashmlr and central
India
The college is what would be known In
the United states as preparatory school,
such as Andovcr or Exeter, or as Eton
in England. After graduation from this
college students may take postgraduate
c, 'rScs at the same institution if they de-
sire, which would correspond to univcr-
sity courses in the United States, or they
may then 30 to universities IN England
OF in the United States for further train
ing The educational courses are given in
English, Hindu Urdu and Sanskrit and
Persian, The include a range of SUBJ
iccts such as English ana Indian history,
georsraphy, arithmetic English prose and
poetry, physics and chemistry. political
economy, geometry, algebra, revenue the
Orctical surveying and law, as we'll as
special attention TO certain practical gov
ernmental administration problems, as
famine relief and MANAGEMENT of State
finances, civil and criminal codes, etc.
Large attention Is paid to lessons In
horseback riding and military drill. also
to the announcement ana regulations Of
such outdoor sports as polo, cricket, foot
bail, etc.
The college has q large library which
is much used, hut the only American liter
ature | found there We're several of Mark
Twains books. / would suggest that as
most of the prospective rulers Of native
states who are being educated here, will
IN the future be obliged To take much
practical interest I'm such subjects MS irr-
cation. well-boring, pumps. HGri rultural
implements and other articles required for
the prosperity Of their pcoplc any con-
trlbutions from manufacturing. conner
rial on educational organizations I'm the
Uujtedo States concerning American
methods aud appliances m'rht have con-
siderable value i'm this library.
In a private discussion I had with ono
student # this school who is soon To he
the ruling CHIEF Of about 20 village COM
munities in Ruipurnna with life and death
power over his subjects and with almost
absolute power I'm administrative matters /
the prosp"ritv Of his noop1e /
found he was particularly irtoras' "a I'm /
The use Of arJns'au wells i'm the United
states, and lac thnu"ht that r. 1aar Hnr- .
iugs could De made i'm Eaiput1na at COM .
small cost, ii would solve tnrt
most PRESSING economic problem Of rhe /
country the land being very dry and there .
being mo- rivers conveniently at hand to
iuigate irnm.
Some nf the examination papers for oh
t"iuiug matriguIIttnu diulomB- which
.Namiucd at tine college. show tho aII-
round character of kuuw'e7ro expected
from these future rulers Of India. A few
Of tine questions We're ms follows:
A FEW QrFeTIONs
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TEer' re Roosevelt ATarconi ana Lloyd
George?
Mnution a great event that has hap
puucd during the last year I'm Portugal
China ana England,
White AN essay on the Delhi dmblr
Can YOU explain why Delhi IS much
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