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miles from Bolpur Station on the East Indian Railway (Loop line), and is far from the distractions of town life.
⁠2. Here the boys are taught Sanskrit, Bengali, English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, and Nature Study, and may be prepared for the Matriculation Examination.
⁠3. Classes in agriculture and manual work, such as carpentry, etc., will shortly be opened, and eventually every boy in the Asram will be expected to take up one of these practical subjects.
⁠4. Special attention is given to the development of the moral and spiritual life of the boys, and they are encouraged to be self-reliant, active, and fearless.
⁠5. The boys live constantly with the teachers, and in every dormitory one or two teachers are placed to supervise the boys.
⁠6. In the early morning and afternoon the boys are given light meals; the two chief meals, at 11 o'clock and in the evening at 7 o'clock, consisting of rice, dal, and vegetable curries, together with ghee and milk.
⁠7. Meat and fish are forbidden. There is a dairy attached to the Asram.
⁠8. Those boys whose guardians, for caste reasons, wish them to eat separately are allowed to do so. But if any boy, of his own accord, wishes to eat with the other boys, he is neither prevented nor punished.
⁠9. Special food is not provided for any boy, even on payment of extra money.
⁠10. There is a doctor with one assistant who looks after boys when they are ill. When boys are ill they are placed in the hospital, where the doctor resides.