THE EDUCATION OF ENGLISH BOYS IN INDIA. [TO THE EDITOR
OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Would you kindly allow me to draw attention to the existence of English boys in India whose educational needs an not, I think, fully understood in England? There is little in the way of English business wealth in Northern India. Men who come out from home are to a large extent birds of passage, whilst those who are brought up in India, as they make their way in the world, usually change their domicile and go over- seas. The result is that boys are without educational facilities that Indian students already possess. For the last three years I have been raising money for a university hostel for them in Lahore in connexion with the Punjab University. I have so far raised 53,000 rupees, amongst those who have given being Lord Chelmsford, Mr. Montagu, and Mr. Rudyard Kipling. There is a representative hostel committee, which includes the present and late Vice-Chancellors of the Punjab University. There is enough money now in hand to start building a hostel; and there are seventeen students already at the university in temporary quarters, but more money is needed to put the hostel on a permanent basis. Sir Edward Maclagan, the Governor of the Punjab, says : " Further funds are urgently needed to prevent it from falling back, and I trust that means may be found for providing a
proper financial bails for this very valuable institution. It is a matter of more than provincial interest, and one with which the well-being of the community is much bound up." I am hoping to be able to form a London eommittee, and in the meantime would be grateful for donations or offers of help of
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