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Title: Indian pictures and problems
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Malcolm, Ian, Sir, 1868-1944
Subjects: India -- Description and travel Burma -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Grant Richard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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yo College. There are morn-ing bells at G.15, G.45, and 7 a.m., and at7 oclock sharp the boys have all to answer totheir names at roll-call, which is taken by theCollege monitors. Then follows half - an - hoursexercise, to wake them up thoroughly, duringwhich time they generally go to the gymnasium(where there are a couple of excellent instructors),or kick a football about in the various housequadrangles. At 7.30 the Hindus assembleat the temple for bathing and prayers, afterwhich they return to their houses for an hourspreparation; the older boys, being privileged,work in their own rooms, whilst the juniors meetin the common-room and study under the super-vision of their motamid or house-master. Break-fast follows, the chief meal of the day, and lastsuntil 10 oclock. At this hour the school workbegins, and the classes (I-VIII) gather in theirseparate class-rooms in the central building, tostudy until 1 p.m. From 1 to 2 p.m. is called the recess hour, when the boys are allowed to 62 I
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PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE do what they hke, and the occupation variesaccording to the season of the year. In theafternoon there is school again from 2 to 4, andthen recreation until 6 oclock. At this hourthe Hindus all go to service in their templebefore the evening meal, which must be finishedby 7.30, when the day closes with an hourspreparation for the next days work. I shouldadd that Wednesdays and Saturdays are half-holidays : there are fifteen whole-holidays andthree vacations during the year. It was very interesting to visit the variousclasses at their work, and to see the coursesordained for each. The senior division is namedthe Diploma Class, and is generally composed ofboys who are just leaving the school to take upresponsible duties as rulers of Native States, oras officials under Government. Their Englishstudies during my stay included The JNIerchantof Venice, With the Royal Tour, and readingsfrom important newspaper and magazine articles.Besides this they were studying English an

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