Colonial Civil Service: The Selection and Training of Colonial Officials in England, Holland, and France |
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administrative admission admitted appointment Arrêté August 29 Bengal Cambridge career civil servants Civil Service Commissioners colonial officials Colonial School colonial service Commission Company's competitive examination course Court of Directors Decree Delft diploma Doctors of Law Dutch Indies East India College East India Company Eastern Cadets England English examination for officials fact final examination French given Government Governor graduates Grand Examination Greek Haileybury College Holland Indian Civil Service institutions Javanese language July July 20 knowledge Language and Literature languages of India Latin Leyden Lord Lord Wellesley Malay Malay language Mathematics ment military Minister nomination number of students obtained offer Old Haileybury Ordinance of August Oxford passed the examination patronage persons political preparation probationers professors questions rank regulations School at Delft Secretary Section selected candidates selecting and training Service of India special training Staatsblad successful candidates tion University vacancies young
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Page 5 - We believe that men who have been engaged, up to one or two and twenty, in studies which have no immediate connexion with the business of any profession, and of which the effect is merely to open, to invigorate, and to enrich the mind, will generally be found, in the business of every profession, superior to men who have, at eighteen or nineteen, devoted themselves to the special studies of their calling.
Page 93 - Commissioners of their eligibility in respect of age, health, and character, shall be certified by the said Commissioners to be entitled to be appointed to the Civil Service of India, provided they shall comply with the regulations in force, at the time, for that service.
Page 88 - That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.
Page 251 - To dispense justice to millions of people of various languages, manners, usages and religions ; to administer a vast and complicated system of revenue throughout districts equal in extent to some of the most considerable kingdoms in Europe ; to maintain civil order in one of the most populous and litigious regions of the world ; these are now the duties of the larger proportion of the civil servants of the Company.
Page 74 - But the youth who does best what all the ablest and most ambitious youths about him are trying to do well will generally prove a superior man...
Page 99 - History of Rome to the death of Vespasian; questions on the Constitutional History of Rome during the same period. In Greek and Roman History candidates will be expected to show a knowledge of the original authorities. MATHEMATICS.
Page 98 - The names placed under the dates are intended to suggest the general character of the literary development of the period, and, consequently, the natural limits of the examination. All the works of Shakespeare, for example, will be regarded as falling within the period 1600 to 1700 ; all the works of Swift within the period 1700 to 1800 ; all the works of Scott and Wordsworth, and all the works of Macaulay, within the period 1800 to 1832. French Language and Literature.
Page 98 - Greek Language (including questions on Philology) and Literature. SANSKRIT LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. — Translation from Sanskrit into English, and from English into Sanskrit. History of Sanskrit Literature (including knowledge of such Indian history as bears upon the subject): Sanskrit Grammar; Vedic Philology. ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. — Translations as in Sanskrit; History of Arabic Literature (including knowledge of such Arabic History as bears upon the subject); Arabic Grammar; Arabic...
Page 93 - ... 11. The selected candidates who, at the Final Examination, shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the subjects specified in Regulation 9, and who shall have satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners of their eligibility in respect of...
Page 97 - The Examination in this part will require from Candidates a more minute acquaintance with the history of the English language and literature, as illustrated in the chief works produced in each period, and will be based to a considerable extent, but by no means exclusively, on certain books specified each year by the Commissioners...