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1824. Feby. 5.
British India Hartford College Education System Master's Defence of it.

☞ 1826 Octr. 4. Is not this a comment by J.B. on the Letter of the Master
of this College? A comment sent to Mr Buckingham, who declined
making use of it, for fear of being accused of betraying the confidence
reposed in him by the Bookseller who communicated the Master's letters as above. Then the name of the Master?

That which Gentlemen desire to have, or at
any rate profess to desire to have, is – a regular &
constant supply of youths, possessed of certain qualifications endowments: endowments, which are to qualify them
for the exercise of certain functions in the Government
of the Company's possessions. Supporting these
endowments attained – attained in a given degree of
perfection, it will not I hope, be disputed, that the
less the expence at which they are attained – in particular
the less the expence to the Company – the
better.

I will show Gentlemen how, by a very simple
course, these endowments may and naturally will
be attached in the highest degree of perfection, with
much less expence than that at which, in the Seminary
in question, in no very high degree of perfection,
and at an enormous expence endeavours
have been employed in the causing them to be attached:
attained at less expence to Parents, and to
the company at little or no expence.

The means by which, in these and most
other endowments for public use, perfection may
be obtained, are neither difficult, nor unknown,
nor unexperienced. They are these –

1. Antecedently to the time at which, in relation to
the candidates in question, aptitude for the situation
in question is to be declared to have place
or not to have place, exercises performed by the
several candidates in public and the more numerous
and more miscellaneous the public,
so

Identifier: | JB/010/168/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1824-02-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field	british india hertford college education system masters defence of it
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1823
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public	see note to letter 3047, vol. 11; "1826 octr 4 is not this a comment by jb on the letter of the master of the college? a comment sent to mr buckingham, who declined making use of it…"	ID Number	3604
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