A Biographical Sketch Of David Hare PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...We have already mentioned that female education was one of the objects of the School Society. This object was being promoted by the Bengal Christian School Society formerly denominated the Calcutta Female Juvenile Society and it appears that the name was changed into the Ladies' Society for Native Female Education, to which David Hare was a subscriber, and he encouraged native female education by his presence at the periodical examinations which were held. The British and Foreign School Society of London had written to the Calcutta School Society to send out an eminently qualified lady for the purpose of introducing a regular system of education among the native female population" whom they might not engage if circumstances did not authorize their doing so. The lady alluded to was Miss Cooke afterwards Mrs. Wilson. The School Society had not funds enough to engage the services of Miss Cooke; she accordingly made arrangements with the Church Missionary Society and zealously promoted female education in Calcutta and elsewhere. The Ladies' Society for native female education formed in 1824, was made over to the Church Missionary Society, the native female schools, of which Miss Wilson took charge, but ihe Ladies' Sociely for native female education was continued as a deliberative body, and there were several native subscribers to the society. The foundation stone of the Central School was laid on the 18th May 1826, on the eastern corner of Cornwallis Square, to which Raja Buddinauth contributed 20,000 rupees. It appears that from 1824 the Hindu girls ceased to be present at the examinations held at Rajah Radhacaunt's. The School Society perhaps thought it wiser with the limited means at its disposal to direct its attention in the first...