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CALCUTTA

SCHOOL SOCIETY.

A noble spirit of benevolent emulation appears, peculiarly about this period, to have animated the Community of Calcutta. A twelve-month had hardly elapsed since the establishment of the School Book Society, when another Association was formed with the same ultimate object for the promotion of education, though one distinguishing feature in the principles of the School Book Society, was not avowedly adopted by the new Institution at the time of it’s first organization. The School Society,