Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . Arab merchants who trade with thePersian and Arabian Gulf and coasts, and a class called Oriahs,natives of Orissa, a careful, patient race, who perform thelower forms of labor. Education is widely advanced in Calcutta. The HindooCollege was founded in 1824 for the teaching of English and 144
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . Arab merchants who trade with thePersian and Arabian Gulf and coasts, and a class called Oriahs,natives of Orissa, a careful, patient race, who perform thelower forms of labor. Education is widely advanced in Calcutta. The HindooCollege was founded in 1824 for the teaching of English and 144 INDIA. Sanscrit. Out of this came the University. The annual con-vocation for conferring degrees took place while General Grantwas in Calcutta. The General, accompanied by Sir AshleyEden, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and Sir Alexander Ar-buthnot, the Vice-Chancellor, attended the convocation. TheGeneral and the Bishop of Calcutta sat on the Vice-Chan-cellors right, and Sir Ashley Eden on his left. Degrees wereconferred upon students from the various colleges through-out India, and the Vice-Chancellor made a speech whichcontained some interesting references to education in present scheme of Indian education, said Sir Alexander, came into operation the year of the mutiny, and the two and. WATER-CARRIERS. twenty years it had been in existence showed gratifying re-sults. The speaker found reason for congratulation in thefact that the senate had passed rules for the examination offemale candidates, and that under these rules a Hindoo younglady had passed with high credit. There was an increasingdesire among the young men of Bengal that their wives anddaughters should be educated. Sir Alexander continued hisaddress by a complimentary allusion to General Grant, whosecareer, he said, was an illustration of what the Anglo-Saxonrace had done in America. There is a medical college foundedby Macaulays friend, Lord William Bentinck. The schoolfounded by Warren Hastings to encour
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