HINDI COMPOSITION.

(OPTIONAL PAPER.)

Examiner-BABU SOMNATH JHARKHANDI, B.A.

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Answers to be always in Hindi.

Write an essay in Hindi on any two of the following subjects :— (a) Education of girls-what it should consist of-prejudice 50 against it-its effect on marriages-has it any value in the matrimonial market?-is an educated girl preferred to one who is ignorant? if so, among whom?- the efforts of the missionaries and arya samajis in this direction.

(b) Sanitation is the best preventive of plague just as of any other disease-general immunity of Europeans from plague dne to their strict attention to the laws of sanitation, plagne is said to be a poor man's disease-this is because of his inability to observe sanitary laws.

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(c) Awakening of India to the necessity of industri ment-the Indian system of industries as contrasted with the European system-small industries on improved plans better suited to India of professional castes than big commercial enterprises requiring vast capital-Capitalism tending to reduce the many to mere labourers and enrich a few (the capitalists) has not improved the type of humanity in Europe-work exists for man under the Indian system but man exists or work in the case of many factories in Europea" countries. (d) A business training is necessary for a business career.

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URIYA COMPOSITION.

(OPTIONAL PAPER)

Examiner-BABU MADHUSUDAN RAO,

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Write essays on any two of the following subjects:-
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(a) The influence of religions reformation on the literature of a people with copious illustrations from the ancient and modern history of

India

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(b) The composition of the Uriya language. Its relations to the Sanskrit, Prakrit and aboriginal languages. and also to foreign languages. 50 (c) Children's love of nature-Nature excites interest and awakens thought-She leads the mind to observe and compare-She exerts a mighty moral influence by her vastness, beauty and perfect order—The grand book of nature full of wisdom and truth.

(d) Life and teachings of Buddha.

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B.A. Examination.

1906.

ENGLISH.

FIRST PASS PAPER.

CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Esq., C.I.E.,

Paper set by J. MANN, ESQ., M.A.

The figures in the margin indicate full marks,

M.A.

[Candidates are requested to use separate books for their answers to the first and second halves of the paper, and to write on the cover 'First Half' or Second Half,' as the case may be.]

1. Explain fully the meaning of the following passages :---
(a) I left no ring with her: what means this lady ?
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
She made good view of me ; indeed, so much,
That sure methorght her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did spank in starts distractedly.

(b) He named Sebastian: I my brother know
Yet living in my glass: even such and so
In favour was my brother, and he went
Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,
For him imitute: O, if it prove,
Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love.
(c) O. what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I. and yon, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over ns.
O now you weep; and, I perceive yon feel
The dint of pity; these are gracions drops.
Kind souls, what, weep you when von but behold
Our Caesar's vesture wounded?
Look you here,
Here is himself. marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
(d) Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills
Unto the legions on the other side.
Let them set on at once; for I perceive
But cold demeanour in Octavins' wing,
And sudden push gives them the overthrow.

By what characters and under what circumstances are (a), (b), and (c) spoken ?

2. What device did Maria adopt in order to 'gall' Malvolio' into a nayword '?

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Describe Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

4. What was Caesar's opinion of Cassius?

Give some account of the proceedings of the second triumvirate.
Correct the following passages in the First Folio:-

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6.

(a)

One that feeds

On Objects, Arts, and Imitations.
(b) Is not to-morrow (Boy) the first of March?

1. Explain fully the meaning of the following passages :—

(a) That Orpheus' self may heave his head

From golden slumber on a bed

Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear

Such strins as would have won the ear

Of Pluto to have quite set free

His half-regained Eurydice.

(b) Spare Fast. that oft with gods doth diet,
And hears the Muses in a ring

Aye round about Jove's altar sing.

(c) Meekly thou didst resign this earthy load

Of death, called life, which us from life doth sever.

(d) He touched the tender stops of varions quills.
With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

(e) But by mine eyes and by mine ears I swear,
I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat,
And thrice as blind as any noonday owl,
To holy virgins in their ecstasies,

Henceforward.

(f) The glories of our blood and state

Are shadows, not substantial things.

(9) Some mute inglorions Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.

2. Give an account of the loss of the Royal George.

3. What view, according to Tennyson, did King Arthur take of his kingly duties?

4. Name the authors of the poems from which the following pag-
ages are taken :—

a) And, like another Helen, fired another Troy.
(b) Thy sun is set, the spring is gone-

We frolic. while 'tis May.

(c) How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckon'd. but with herbs and flowers ?

(d) But blessings on your frosty pow,

John Anderson my jo!

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5. Explain the allusions in the following passages :
(a) And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
(b) In Liberty's defence, my noble task.
(c) The golden dragon sparkling over all.

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ENGLISH.

SECOND PASS PAPER.

CHARLES H. TAWNEY, ESQ., C.I.E., M.A.

Paper set by-J. MANN, Esq., M.A.

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

[Candidates are requested to use separate books for their answers to the first and second halves of the paper, and to write on the cover 'First Half' or · 'Second Half,' as the case may be.]

FIRST HALF.

Examiners ( BABU HERAMBACHANDRA MAITRA, M.A.
REV. S. L. THOMPSON, B.A., B.D.

1. State Burke's leading political ideas, with illustrations from the speech on Conciliation

2. Reproduce Burke's character of Mr. Townshend.

3. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth; and this from a great variety of powerful causes.' Mention these causes and give an outline of Burke's argument on the subject.

4. State Burke's view of 'party connexion.'

5. In what sense does Burke employ the following words: - management, exquisite, complexion disgustful, auspicate, platform?

6. Explain the following passages, showing their connexion with Burke's argument:—

(a) The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings.

(b) This whole state of commercial servitude and civil liberty, taken together, is certainly not perfect freedom; but, comparing it with the ordinary circumstances of human nature, it was a happy and a liberal condition

(c) Refined policy has ever been the parent of confusion. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.

(d) The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine if this child of your old age, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.

(e) Consulting at that oracle (it was with all due humility and piety) I found four capital examples in a similar case before me.

(f) I am not even obliged to go to the rich treasury of the fertile

framers of imaginary commonwealths.... It is before me, it is at my feet, and the rude swain treads daily on it with his clouted shoon.

(g) We have made wor on our colonies, not by arms only, but by laws. . . . Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people.

Examiners

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SECOND HALF.

N. N. GHOSE, ESQ., FR.S.L.
M. GHOSE, ESQ., B.A. (Oxon.).

1. Reproduce some of Scott's reflections on his own life.

Explain:-I promise you my oaks will ontlast my laurels ; and I pique myself more upon my compositions for manure than on any other compositions whatsoever to which I was ever accessory.

2.

Give the substance of Arnold's remarks on Hannibal.

Explain :-Never was the wisdom of God's providence more mani. fest than in the issue of the struggle between Rome and Carthage.

3.

Write notes on the following:

(a) The monastics built as well as wrote for posterity.

(b) Time does more for books than for wine.

(c) The beggar is the only free man in the universe.

(d) The name of Andreas Hofer will be honoured by posterity far above any of the present age, and together with the most glorious of the last. Washington and Kosciusko. For it rests on the same foundation, and indeed on a higher basis.

4.

Write an essay on one of the following subjects :-(a) Experience is the grand spiritual doctor.

(b)

Unless above himself he can

Exalt himself, how poor a thing is man.

(c) Ignorance is bold, knowledge reserved.

(d) Many men have talent; few men have genuis; fewer still have character.

ENGLISH.

FIRST HONOUR PAPER.

CHARLES H. TAWNEY, ESQ., C.I.E., M.A.

Puper set by J. MANN, ESQ., M.A.

Examiner-REV. A. B. WANN, M.A., B.D.

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

1. Write explanatory notes on the following passages :—

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