PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS OF 1850. The papers on the various subjects were prepared by the undermentioned gentlemen : Sanscrit Scholarships. Senior and Junior: Pundit Eshwar Chunder Shurma. The senior and junior scholarship answers were examined by the gentlemen who set the questions. The Arabic and Sanscrit scholarship answers were examined by the Principal of the Calcutta Mudrissa and by Pundit Eshwar Chunder Shurma. I. The scholarship examinations of all the Colleges and Schools in Bengal were held upon the dates and at the hours specified below: Friday, Sept. 27th,.... Literature Proper, Saturday, Sept. 28th,.. {Mental and Moral Phi losophy, History, Pure Mathematics, : Junior Scholarships. Grammar. History. Mathematics. Vern. Translation. The examinations were held daily from 10 A. M. to 11⁄2 P. M., and from 2 to 5 P. M. precisely, at which hours all answers to the morning and afternoon papers, respectively, were given in. b II. The following is the manner in which the examinations are conducted: 1. Sets of questions on the various branches of study in the senior and junior departments, are prepared by the examiners selected by the Council of Education. 2. In Calcutta one of the members of the Council of Education_presides at the examination of each day, in the Mofussil a member of the Local Committee performs the same duty; each is furnished with copies of the scholarship questions under a sealed cover, with a superscription specifying the subject of the contained paper, and the day on which it is to be opened in the presence of the scholarship candidates. 3. The students assemble in a room without books, papers, or references of any kind, are not allowed to communicate with each other during the examination, and on that account are placed at a proper distance from each other. 4. They are required to answer the questions, and to write the essays without any assistance whatever: to ensure this, one of the members of the Council remains in the room, and superintends the whole examination. 5. Any attempt at, or practice of unfair means, subjects the offending party to a fine of 100 Rs. in cases of senior, and 50 Rs. in cases of junior scholarships: non-payment of the fine within one month subjects the offender to exclusion from the Institution till payment, and no offender is capable of then, or again competing for any scholarship. 6. At the hour fixed for the close of each day's examination, every student delivers his answers, signed by himself, to the superintending member of the Council or Local Committee. 7. The examiners fix an uniform standard of value for each question according to its importance. A perfectly correct and complete answer obtains the full number of marks attached to the question; an imperfect answer obtains a part only of the full number, in proportion to its approximation to correctness and completeness. At least 50 per cent. of the aggregate number of marks attached to an entire set of examination questions is strictly necessary, to entitle a student either to a senior or junior scholarship, but this rule is sometimes relaxed. 8. Junior scholars of one year's standing are examined in the junior scholarship papers; 65 per cent. of the maximum number of marks being required to admit of their retaining their scholarships. Junior scholars of two and three years' standing undergo their examinations in the senior scholarship papers; they must obtain 20 and 30 per cent., respectively, of the aggregate number of marks to entitle them to retain their scholarships. All senior scholarship-holders pass their examination in the senior scholarship papers. A senior scholar of one year's standing must obtain at least 65 per cent. of the aggregate number of marks allowed, and of all subsequent years, at least 75 per cent. to entitle him to retain his scholarship. 9. No student, not being already a scholarship-holder, or a freescholar, is allowed to compete for a scholarship whom the Principal of the College or the Head Master of the School to which he belongs, does not consider competent to attain the requisite standard. October, 1850. FRED. J. MOUat, M. D., Secretary to the Council of Education. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS. SENIOR SCHOLARSHIPS, 1850. Literature Proper. FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD CLASSES. N. B.-This year, four Mathematical classes were formed instead of three, the first three corresponding to what has been hitherto called the first class of Literature, and the fourth to the second. CORIOLANUS. Morning Paper. N. B. Where no question is verbally proposed, it is required that the words or sentences in italics be clearly explained. Question 1. Cit. "We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians, good; what authority surfeits on would relieve us. If they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them.” 2. Men. 3. Vir. "You are three, That Rome should dote on; yet by the faith of men, We have some old crab-trees here at home, that will not We call a nettle but a nettle, and The faults of fools folly." In what play does Shakespeare explain the art alluded to? What contemporary has the same remark? "Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius !" What part of Shakespeare's art is this an illustration of? 4. Vol. 5. Cor. 6. Cor. "These are the ushers of Marcius: before him In what sense is noise used here? What poets use noise in the same sense? "For the mutable rank-scented many, let them Regard me as I do not flatter, and Therein behold themselves." Sketch the character of the people as it is drawn by Coriolanus? "Shall !" "O good but most unwise patricians ! why, That with his peremptory "shall," being but The horn and noise o'the monsters, wants not spirit To say, he'll turn your current in a ditch, And make your channel his." What agreement have "horn" and "noise" respectively? 7. Cor. 8. "This double worship Where one part does disdain with cause, the other Insult without all reason; where gentry, title, wisdom, Of general ignorance,—it must omit Real necessities, and give way the while To unstable slightness. Purpose so barr'd, it follows Therefore, beseech you, You that will be less fearful than discreet, That love the fundamental part of state, More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer A noble life before a long, and wish 9. 10. Sen. 11. Vol. 12. Com. Men. 13. Auf. To jump a body with a dangerous physic That's sure of death without it; at once pluck out "Your dishonour Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the state Of that integrity which should become it, Not having the power to do the good it would, "Noble tribunes, It is the humane way; the other course "You are too absolute; Though therein you can never be too noble, But when extremities speak; I have heard you say, Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, I'the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me, In peace what each of them by th' other lose, That they combine not there." And say what course Volumnia recommends when "extremities speak"? "He will shake Your Rome about your ears." "As Hercules Did shake down mellow fruit." What classical story is alluded to? What does Milton compare to the "mellow fruit?" "First he was A noble servant to them; but he could not |