History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

290 HISTORY OF THE PARSIS. [CHAP, VI.

Three of the boys’ and one of the girls’ schools in Bombay are located in a commodious three-storied building in Hornby Row, a broad and convenientlysituated street in that city. The foundation-stone of this building was laid on 21st February 1871 by Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, G.C.8.L, at that time Governor of Bombay; and the opening ceremony was performed on 20th November 1872 by the Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor-General of India. The building was designed by a Parsi architect, and cost Rs.346,825.

The High School of the institution holds a very prominent place among the high schools of the Presidency. Last year it succeeded in passing at the matriculation examination as many as nineteen out of twenty-one candidates sent up, a much higher proportion than had been obtained by any other school since 1864, the year in which this school first began to send up candidates to the University. One hundred and seventy of its pupils have passed the matriculation examination—fifty-two in ten years under Dr. Burgess, and one hundred and eighteen in ten years under the present Parsi Principal, who takes a great interest in his work, and who has brought the boys’ schools into so high a state of efficiency as to elicit from General Waddington, the late Educational Inspector of the Central Division, his strong opinion, expressed to the Managing Committee in 1881, as well as on several