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Report On The Inspection Of Chiefs College 1939PDF 29
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that the change, if effected, might interfere with the teaching of Land
Revenue, administration and surveying as a recognised subject, but the
Educational Commissioner tells me that the Cambridge School Certificate
Examination is an elastic one as regards the subjects to be offered and that
there is no reason to suppose that this particular subject could not he
included therein.
In regard to (ii) the Army class has been developed into a fully
organised and separate unit of the Post Diploma or College Section and
prepares candidates for the I.M.A Entrance Examination and the Army.
Special Certificate. One candidate was sent up for the last I.M.A.
Entrance Examination and passed 4th.
There are now 6 students in the Army Class; this is a good beginning
but it is hoped that the number will increase.
4, The Working Committee have approved of a proposal to replace the
existing large number of small Boarding Houses by a few larger Houses
run on complete Public School Lines. The proposal seems an excellent
one; af present there are no fewer than 10 houses for the 160 boys in the
College and each house must necessarily be much too small to give any
of the advantages of the Honse system as understood in a Public School.
The suggestion is that one of the new Houses should be an exclusively
Junior House, and this is certainly to be commended.
5. It is proposed to eliminate Indian Guardians at the College and to
allow tutors only in a few very exceptional cases—such tutors to be appointed
by the Principal and to be well paid qualified teachers. I am much in
favour of this proposal and trust it may be found possible, when the House
system has been fully established, to eliminate all private servants.
6. The question is still being discussed whether the Mayo College
should continue as it is or should open its doors to classes hitherto excluded.
4%. Lagree entirely with the Principal that there can be no middle
course. Either the College should continue to be a Chiefs’ College confined
to the sons and relations of Ruling Princes, Chiefs and of the landed
nobility, or it should become a Public School open to any one who cah
afford to pay the expenses. It is no use opening the College to a small
number of boys drawn from ‘excluded’ classes.
8. I do not myself see the necessity for making any change at present.
The numbers are well sustained at about 160; without additional expensive
building there is no room for much expansion; and if, as may be the case,
other Chiefs’ Colleges prove unable to maintain their original réll that
is no reason why one such institution should not continue to do so: it
might in fact ultimately gain by receiving pupils of its own particulay
glass from other areas.
G. V. B. GILLAN, Lieut.-Colonel,
Resident, Western Rajputana Siates,