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Class C after having failed at the same examination (total 25), 5 that left from
Class B and 15 from Class A.

The number of students attending the College at the close of the official
year was 107 as compared to 111 and 98 in 1906-1907 and 1905-1906, respect-
ively.

Pour students, who failed in December 1906 and left, re-entered the College
in July 1907 ; they were, therefore, not on the College rolls at the beginning of
the official year 1907-1908. They appeared for examination in December of
the same year and passed and are shown in Appendix A but not in Appen-
dix B.

Of the 107 students on the College rolls at the end of the year one each
belonged to Ceylon, Cutch, Gondal, Vákáner, and Goa; two each to Indore, Sind,
Jámnagar, Sángli and Kolhápur; four to Bhávnagar ; five each to Madras and
Travancore and 33 to Mysore. The remaining 45 belonged to the town of
Bombay and the several districts of the Presidency proper.

The number of men, who presented themselves in December 1907 as can-
didates for admission as students, was 73 as against 83 in 1906-1907 and 56 in
1905-1906, Of these new men only 41 eventually joined the College at the
beginning of the course in January (Appendix B). Of these 16 are Matricu-
lates and School Pinal men. Of the other 32 men who did not join one was
rejected as morally unfit, three were rejected as physically unfit and 6 because
they failed to pass the Entrance Test. Eight who were Matriculates and six
who passed the Entrance Test (required of men without any qualifications),
did not join and 8 who were without any qualifications did not come up for the
Entrance Test.

Of the 41 new students who eventually joined the College, 17 belonged to
the Bombay Presidency, 14 to Mysore, 4 to Native States in the Bombay Pre-
sidency, 2 to Travancore and one each to Sind, Goa, Ceylon and Bengal.

In the new admissions there are 5 scholarship holders—4 sent by the Mysore
State and one by the Rajput Pie Fund Society, Káthiáwár.

Appendix C shows the different nationalities of the students on the College
rolls at the end of the year.

In the new admissions there are 34 Hindus, 6 Native Christians and one
Mahomedan.

                              GOVENMENT SCHOLARSHIPS.

4. As stated in the last annual report there were 15 students on the list
of Government scholarship holders at the close of the official year. Of these
7 left, viz., 4 that graduated from Class C, and one each from Classes A, B and
C, who failed at their respective annual examinations. One of the scholars who
failed at the examination was under the amended College Rule 11 allowed by
the Principal to continue to draw his scholarship. Including this scholar there
remained 8 students on the list of Government scholars at the beginning of the
present Collegiate year. From the beginning of the year Government
have sanctioned an increase in the total number of scholarships to be awarded
to students from 15 to 21, so that in January there were 13 scholarships vacant.
To compete for these 73 men were recommended by different Collectors and of
these 26 came to the College in January and of these only 16 eventually joined
as students and of these only 14 came up to compete at the examination for
scholarships which was held in March by the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary
Department, Bombay Presidency, and myself. They were tested according to
the College Rules and eight of them only were chosen, thus making up the
total number of scholarship holders to 16, leaving 5 vacancies to be filled next
year. Of the 14 competing students 9 were Matriculates or School Pinal men
and it was 8 of these to whom scholarships were given one having to be reject-
ed as not coming up to the standard of minimum chest measurement. Of the
abovementioned 16 candidates who joined the College as students 4 were
recommended by the Collector of Ratnágiri, two each by the Collector of Poona
and Broach and one each by the Collectors of Kaira, Kánara, Thána, Belgaum,
Násik, Hyderabad (Sind), Dhárwár and East Khándesh. The students to whom
scholarships were awarded came, one each from Ratnágiri, Násik, Hyderabad,
Kaira, Poona, Broach, Dhárwár and Kárwár. They comprised four Deccani
Brahmins, one Gujaráti Brahmin, one Shenvi Brahmin, one Gujaráti Barot of
the cultivating caste and one Kshatriya from Sind.