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railways; while others adopt the profession of newspaper reporters.

Many also of those who belonged to the Institution previous to the establishment of the University have attained positions of respectability, for which they are chiefly indebted to the education they received there.

This is a brief account of an Institution without which the children of indigent members of the Parsi community would have been deprived of the benefits of education. It may be styled one of the noblest of the numerous monuments which are to be seen in the Bombay Presidency, testifying to the enlightened liberality of the first Parsi baronet, the late Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai.

In connection with the subject of Parsi education we must not omit to mention that several Parsi High Schools have been established in the city of Bombay by educated Parsis. The chief of these are the Fort High School and the Fort Proprietary School. The number of Parsi boys on the roll of the first is six hundred and fifty, and on the second five hundred and fifty. Both these schools are considered highly efficient. They pass annually a large number of pupils at the matriculation examination of the Bombay University, and have always been favourably reported upon by the Government Educational Inspectors who have periodically examined them.