Calcutta Boys' School
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Calcutta Boys' School was founded by the Rev. James Mills Thoburn
(Methodist Missionary
to India
, and later Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
), and was opened in 1877. It was endowed by the late Robert Laidlaw and others interested in the education of the sons of the Anglo-Indian
and domiciled European community.
in India
. In January 1873, the Reverend William Taylor
founded the work of the Thoburn
Methodist Episcopal Church
in Calcutta (Kolkata
). He was succeeded by the Reverend James Mills Thoburn
. The latter's ardent preaching soon rendered the Entally Baptist Chapel unable to cope with the increasing number of converts. In February 1874, a new chapel was opened at 145 Dharamtolla Street, built at a cost of 16,000 rupee
s largely due to the generosity of George Bowen of Bombay who donated 10,000 rupees. Soon even this chapel proved unable to accommodate the growing congregation, until a larger church was constructed on Dharamtolla Street, where it stands today. The New Thoburn Church was dedicated on December 31, 1875. In 1888 Rev. James Mills Thoburn was elected Missionary Bishop of India & Malaysia - the first ever Missionary Bishop in India.
It was Bishop Thoburn who founded the Calcutta Boys' School. First located at Mott Lane, and then later housed in a room on Corporation Street (known as S. N. Banerjee Road today), the school struggled for survival without a building of its own. It acquired a permanent residence in 1893 thanks to the generosity of a man who could be regarded as the chief patron of the school: Sir Robert Laidlaw
The Girls School was erected in 1886, during the principalship of Miss Hendrick.
. It was Principal Horace Christopher Fritchley who then took over the reins and saw the school through the turbulent thirties and forties that saw the Depression, the Second World War, Independence
and Partition
. He did away with the system of prizes on Sports Day, inculcating the value of love for sport.
Fritchley was succeeded by his son-in-law
Clifford Hicks in 1952. Hicks consolidated the school in terms of its academic performance, and introduced a system of strict discipline in accordance with his motto: "Two yards outside the school gates the jungle begins". Later nominated a Member of the Legislative Assembly, Hicks believed that the guardians of the students were required to be interviewed more rigorously than the students themselves, and during his tenure, this principle was adhered to until he was ousted from his position in the mid to late 1970s).
During Clifford Hicks' time as principal the newest of the three buildings that currently house the school was built. Named the "Fritchley Building" the construction was made possible by the retirement benefit & gratuity of Mr. Horace Christopher Fritchley which he donated to "his very dear CBS" together with donations collected by the students of the school. The school library (now housed in the old dormitory) is named "The Clifford Hicks Memorial Library". The CBS Archives (established in 2008) are also housed in the Library.
During Alfred Martin's tenure the school changed from Senior Cambridge to the ICSE and ISC system affiliated to the Indian Council of Secondary Education. Throughout the 1980s, students ranked prominently in the ICSE and ISC rankings. Unlike the Hicks era, Martin encouraged students to participate in co-curricular activities such as debating and quizzing. The school developed a debating society and a quiz club, which during the 1980s swept most of the inter-school meets.
The school also did well in the British Council One Act Play competitions during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Teachers like Mr Joseph Kodaikanal, Eric Warrier, Lawrence W. Hartnett (now the principal of a major school in Dubai after serving as principal of Assembly of God Church School
), Sujata Goswami and Guy Dantes raised the standard of English teaching.
Possibly the biggest contribution during the Martin era was the school's strength in the mathematics and science faculties. Teachers like Mr S.K. Deb, S. Biswas, Gautam Mitra, Dr. Choudhury , Mr. N. Ghosh, Mr. Jijo V Abraham(considered a maths genius by many), Biswapati Chaudhari and B.K. Saha had great influence over the shaping of students in this period. As did senior science teachers like D.N. Bhattacharya , A.G. Pal ; 2nd language teachers like Mr Ganguly, Mr Singh;Primary school teachers like Mrs Gupta , Mrs Zaffer , and Mr Biswas- all stalwarts of contemporary school teaching in Calcutta (Kolkata) as well as the country. In fact the old boys of CBS have initiated a rolling trophy " The Mr Gautam Mitra Memorial Shield for Excellence in Mathematics " to be awarded each year to the student scoring the highest marks in Mathematics in the ICSE.
The school attends other schools fests and stages its own, called 'Concord'.
Gilbert Samuel, who became Principal in 1997, furthered the cause of co-curricular activities, allowing the students of CBS to secure top positions at premier National and International contests regularly, including a second place finish at the 2003 Biology Olympiad and the International Infomatics Olympiad in 2004.
In 2005 CBS won the under 16 national cricket tournament, and in 2004 the national rounds of the Inter School Frank Antony Memorial Debate.
The present Principal, Raja McGee (also the youngest Principal ever), has introduced an elected Students council called the United Students Organization (USO). A 3-day language festival "Lingua Fiesta" and a Computers, Science and Mathematics festival COSMA have also been introduced since 2007. Under his leadership CBS has established two branch schools, at Sonarpur in 2008 and at Beliaghata in 2010.
House events are held such as the Lingua Fiesta, the Inter-House Football Tournaments, the COSMA and the Annual Athletic Meet in the month of December. The house that emerges victorious at the end of the House competition is awarded a trophy.
Each house is assigned a House Master or Mistress that looks after the activities of that House, and ensures a democratic process of selection and nomination for the offices that are associated with the governing of the house.
The school has an Interact Club which runs social projects.
Non-competitive activities take place in the school, such as quizzes, debates, plays, Eastern and Western music competitions.
Public events are held, ranging from the annual Suvrojit-Somak Debate, which is organized in memory of two students of the school to the annual inter-school fest, Concord which is today, one of the most well known fests of the city and is the first inter-school fest in the city. This fest, usually held at the Kala Mandir Auditorium in the city, is renowned for its Quiz and the Western Music event.
The School Annual Concert-"Rhapsody" is played out before students and parents.
The awards (for academic excellence and for extra-curricular activity) are given on the annual Speech Day. Two awards instituted in 1897,the Bishop James Mills Thoburn Gold Medal and the Sir Robert Laidlaw Silver medal, are awarded during this ceremony to the over-all topper in the Senior School and the Junior School respectively.
The Inter House Athletic Meet -Panorama - takes place around December, with parents in attendance. The lighting of the athletic meet flame and the hoisting of the meet flag followed by the march-past are the start of the day. Other events in the Meet include floats, relays, and races, such as the 100m, 200m and 400m.
The Christmas Cantata, a presentation of carols and a nativity play, is played at the Thoburn Methodist Church on the second Saturday of December each year.
Lingua Fiesta (Language festival) and COSMA (a computer-science-Maths festival) are major inter-house competitive festivals organized by the school.
The school magazine, was first published as the CBS Chronicle in August 1912 and priced one anna eight per annum. Published by the CBS Literary Society since its inception (only with the exception between 1986 and 1988, when it was run wholly by students, without any intervention from the staff), it was christened as "The Pulse" and is published every year.
Several Principal
s of Calcutta Girls High School
including Ms.R.N. Ganakan, Mrs.Montoo Rakhit and Mrs.Beulah Raju have served as Acting Principals of Calcutta Boys' School.
James Mills Thoburn
James Mills Thoburn was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church best known for his missionary work in India.Thoburn was born on March 7, 1836 in St. Clairsville, Ohio and graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1857, beginning his Methodist preaching ministry...
(Methodist Missionary
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...
to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, and later Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of...
), and was opened in 1877. It was endowed by the late Robert Laidlaw and others interested in the education of the sons of the Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in India, now mainly historical in the latter sense. British residents in India used the term "Eurasians" for people of mixed European and Indian descent...
and domiciled European community.
Origins
The origins of CBS are closely linked with the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchMethodist Episcopal Church
The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of...
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. In January 1873, the Reverend William Taylor
William Taylor (bishop)
William Taylor was an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1884. Taylor University, a Christian college in Indiana, carries his name.-Ancestry and birth:...
founded the work of the Thoburn
James Mills Thoburn
James Mills Thoburn was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church best known for his missionary work in India.Thoburn was born on March 7, 1836 in St. Clairsville, Ohio and graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1857, beginning his Methodist preaching ministry...
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of...
in Calcutta (Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
). He was succeeded by the Reverend James Mills Thoburn
James Mills Thoburn
James Mills Thoburn was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church best known for his missionary work in India.Thoburn was born on March 7, 1836 in St. Clairsville, Ohio and graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1857, beginning his Methodist preaching ministry...
. The latter's ardent preaching soon rendered the Entally Baptist Chapel unable to cope with the increasing number of converts. In February 1874, a new chapel was opened at 145 Dharamtolla Street, built at a cost of 16,000 rupee
Rupee
The rupee is the common name for the monetary unit of account in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, and formerly in Burma, and Afghanistan. Historically, the first currency called "rupee" was introduced in the 16th century...
s largely due to the generosity of George Bowen of Bombay who donated 10,000 rupees. Soon even this chapel proved unable to accommodate the growing congregation, until a larger church was constructed on Dharamtolla Street, where it stands today. The New Thoburn Church was dedicated on December 31, 1875. In 1888 Rev. James Mills Thoburn was elected Missionary Bishop of India & Malaysia - the first ever Missionary Bishop in India.
1930s to Present
The school struggled for finances in its early years, and was on the verge of closing down during the Great DepressionGreat Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
. It was Principal Horace Christopher Fritchley who then took over the reins and saw the school through the turbulent thirties and forties that saw the Depression, the Second World War, Independence
Independence
Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory....
and Partition
Partition of India
The Partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on 14 and 15...
. He did away with the system of prizes on Sports Day, inculcating the value of love for sport.
Son-in-Law
Son-in-Law was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and an influential sire, especially for sport horses.The National Horseracing Museum says that Son-in-Law is "probably the best and most distinguished stayer this country has ever known." Described as "one of the principal influences for stamina in...
Clifford Hicks in 1952. Hicks consolidated the school in terms of its academic performance, and introduced a system of strict discipline in accordance with his motto: "Two yards outside the school gates the jungle begins". Later nominated a Member of the Legislative Assembly, Hicks believed that the guardians of the students were required to be interviewed more rigorously than the students themselves, and during his tenure, this principle was adhered to until he was ousted from his position in the mid to late 1970s).
During Clifford Hicks' time as principal the newest of the three buildings that currently house the school was built. Named the "Fritchley Building" the construction was made possible by the retirement benefit & gratuity of Mr. Horace Christopher Fritchley which he donated to "his very dear CBS" together with donations collected by the students of the school. The school library (now housed in the old dormitory) is named "The Clifford Hicks Memorial Library". The CBS Archives (established in 2008) are also housed in the Library.
The school also did well in the British Council One Act Play competitions during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Teachers like Mr Joseph Kodaikanal, Eric Warrier, Lawrence W. Hartnett (now the principal of a major school in Dubai after serving as principal of Assembly of God Church School
Assembly of God Church School
Assembly of God Church School was established in 1964, located in Kolkata, India. It takes theIndian Council of Secondary Education Examination...
), Sujata Goswami and Guy Dantes raised the standard of English teaching.
Possibly the biggest contribution during the Martin era was the school's strength in the mathematics and science faculties. Teachers like Mr S.K. Deb, S. Biswas, Gautam Mitra, Dr. Choudhury , Mr. N. Ghosh, Mr. Jijo V Abraham(considered a maths genius by many), Biswapati Chaudhari and B.K. Saha had great influence over the shaping of students in this period. As did senior science teachers like D.N. Bhattacharya , A.G. Pal ; 2nd language teachers like Mr Ganguly, Mr Singh;Primary school teachers like Mrs Gupta , Mrs Zaffer , and Mr Biswas- all stalwarts of contemporary school teaching in Calcutta (Kolkata) as well as the country. In fact the old boys of CBS have initiated a rolling trophy " The Mr Gautam Mitra Memorial Shield for Excellence in Mathematics " to be awarded each year to the student scoring the highest marks in Mathematics in the ICSE.
The school attends other schools fests and stages its own, called 'Concord'.
In 2005 CBS won the under 16 national cricket tournament, and in 2004 the national rounds of the Inter School Frank Antony Memorial Debate.
The present Principal, Raja McGee (also the youngest Principal ever), has introduced an elected Students council called the United Students Organization (USO). A 3-day language festival "Lingua Fiesta" and a Computers, Science and Mathematics festival COSMA have also been introduced since 2007. Under his leadership CBS has established two branch schools, at Sonarpur in 2008 and at Beliaghata in 2010.
Houses
The House system was introduced in CBS in 1916. The four houses into which the students are divided on admission to the school are named after those who made the most contribution to the school - Thoburn for red, Warne for gold, Henderson (previously christened Pritchard) for blue and Laidlaw for green.House events are held such as the Lingua Fiesta, the Inter-House Football Tournaments, the COSMA and the Annual Athletic Meet in the month of December. The house that emerges victorious at the end of the House competition is awarded a trophy.
Each house is assigned a House Master or Mistress that looks after the activities of that House, and ensures a democratic process of selection and nomination for the offices that are associated with the governing of the house.
School anthem
- Hail Alma Mater we sing to thee,
- thou, more than worthy of our loyalty,
- guide of our youthful days,
- our praise to thee belongs,
- accept Alma Mater now our heart felt songs.
- Hail! Alma Mater,we sing to thee,
- enshrined forever in our memory,
- thy living spirit leads us
- in the way of truth,
- To thee Alma Mater,rise the songs of youth.
- Hail Glorious C.B.S we pledge to thee
- ourselves, our love and our loyalty,
- here we have learnt
- Tis that makes a lad so strong,
- With thee C.B.S is just where we belong.
Student activities
Awards have been gained from competitions including international olympiads, national and local quizzes, debates, inter-school festivals as well as those won by the students of the school at The Telegraph School of the Year Award, an award given by an English newspaperThe school has an Interact Club which runs social projects.
Non-competitive activities take place in the school, such as quizzes, debates, plays, Eastern and Western music competitions.
Public events are held, ranging from the annual Suvrojit-Somak Debate, which is organized in memory of two students of the school to the annual inter-school fest, Concord which is today, one of the most well known fests of the city and is the first inter-school fest in the city. This fest, usually held at the Kala Mandir Auditorium in the city, is renowned for its Quiz and the Western Music event.
The School Annual Concert-"Rhapsody" is played out before students and parents.
The awards (for academic excellence and for extra-curricular activity) are given on the annual Speech Day. Two awards instituted in 1897,the Bishop James Mills Thoburn Gold Medal and the Sir Robert Laidlaw Silver medal, are awarded during this ceremony to the over-all topper in the Senior School and the Junior School respectively.
The Inter House Athletic Meet -Panorama - takes place around December, with parents in attendance. The lighting of the athletic meet flame and the hoisting of the meet flag followed by the march-past are the start of the day. Other events in the Meet include floats, relays, and races, such as the 100m, 200m and 400m.
The Christmas Cantata, a presentation of carols and a nativity play, is played at the Thoburn Methodist Church on the second Saturday of December each year.
Lingua Fiesta (Language festival) and COSMA (a computer-science-Maths festival) are major inter-house competitive festivals organized by the school.
The school magazine, was first published as the CBS Chronicle in August 1912 and priced one anna eight per annum. Published by the CBS Literary Society since its inception (only with the exception between 1986 and 1988, when it was run wholly by students, without any intervention from the staff), it was christened as "The Pulse" and is published every year.
Principals
Principals of Calcutta Boys' School:- 1881 Clyde A Martin
- 1883 A.S. Busby
- 1885 Rev. Wm A. Carroll
- 1888 Rev. Frank Latimer Mc Coy
- 1889 G.S. Bomwetsh
- 1894 Rev. Benjamin J. Chew
- 1897 J. Gordon Kennedy
- 1902 Rev. F.B. Smith
- 1909 Rev. John Wesley Simmons
- 1914 Rev. David Huron Manley
- 1915 T.P. Campbell
- 1917 Rev. David Huron Manley
- 1919 George Allen Odgers
- 1923 Ronald Scott Gibbons
- 1924 George David Allen Odgers
- 1927 Rev. R.S. Gibbons
- 1931 H.C. Fritchley
- 1952 Clifford Hicks
- 1974 William Edward Torrick (acting)
- 1975 Rev. Homer Morgan (acting)
- 1975 Alfred Martin
- 1991 Rev. W.W. Jones (acting)
- 1991 Girish Roy
- 1997 Gilbert Samuel
- 2003 Joseph Raymond Emmanuel
- 2007 Raja McGee
Several Principal
Principal (academia)
The Principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth.-Canada:...
s of Calcutta Girls High School
Calcutta Girls High School
Calcutta Girls' High School is a school for girls in Kolkata, West Bengal, India founded in 1856 by the Governor General of India, Lord Canning, as a boarding school. The school teaches in the English language, and teaches for the Indian School Certificate Examination .-History:American missionary...
including Ms.R.N. Ganakan, Mrs.Montoo Rakhit and Mrs.Beulah Raju have served as Acting Principals of Calcutta Boys' School.
Notable alumni
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- M.J. Akbar - writer, senior journalist, Editor-in-Chief, The Asian Age
- Joymalya Bagchi - Judge at the High Court at Calcutta
- Saikat Sarkar - Associate Vice President Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited
- Kaushik Sarkar - Chief Financial Officer Adobe Systems Limited
- Utpal Banerjee - co-founder and CEO, Valutech Inc., Toronto, Canada
- Protik Prokash BanerjiProtik Prokash BanerjiProtik Prokash Banerji is the first Advocate in India to have won a judgment in favor of his client that an arbitrator under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 is amenable to jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution of India...
- Advocate, Junior Standing Counsel of the Government of West Bengal at the High Court at Calcutta, recipient of the Advocate General's Trophy,Outstanding Emerging Lawyer's Award, instituted in 2009 by the Indian Law Institute (West Bengal Unit); Governor's nominee to the Governing Body of Surendranath Law College. - Joy Bhattacharya - TV personality and quizmaster, and CEO of Kolkata Knight RidersKolkata Knight RidersKolkata Knight Riders is the franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. Sourav Ganguly led the team in IPL1 and IPL3, Brendon McCullum in IPL2, and Gautam Gambhir in IPL4...
(KKR) - Ayan Banerji - Senior Learning and Development professional and Corporate Trainer
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