The Archive · 1905

School Attendance

Lately I made a rough calculation of the proportion of boys who attend schools of any dose option. "I came to the conclusion that about one in thirty of the total population do so for a certain time each yenr.. It should be remembered, however, that this average was obtained for "well-to-do villages. The proportion would be considerably less favourable in poorer and hilly disireis. I failed to oh-ain reliable statistics of the children w'o never attend ary school but it may be token for granted that the larger number of boys never have any education.

Rain Needed, Weare having a very cool, windy, dusty, and dry summer. People and. officials have visited every shrine and prayed at every temple known to be efficacious; th have further lashed some of the ima, negligence, and oth have been put in the ssu make m feel how dry it is. A little rain has fal

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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