PIONEER IN INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1849, 8 September 1913, Page 2

PIONEER IN INDIA.

The "woman's movement has" evidently found congenial soil in Mussoorio, which lias just had tho honour of 'beiiig the first station in India to elect a woman to the municipal board, in the person of Miss Holland, M.A., principal of Hampton .Court College for Girls, _ who headed tlio poll at the rcccnt election. > Miss Holland is practically a .self-ecra-cated woman, and has reached a high level of intellectual distinction. As a private student she proved very successful at the examinations held m connection with Calcutta University, matriculating in. the first division _ and winning a Government scholarship. She passed the Inter. B.A. also in the first division,'gaining another Government scholarship, and in addition tho Dun Scholarship for Languages. Her B.A. degree was accomplished by double hrst class honours, and the M.A. by double first class honours in Latin and the university gold medal. Later she was tho first ' woman to win the Premcliand Roychand Studentship of Rs.Booo with tho Mount gold medal by passing tho highest examination held in India, which is limited to competitors with an M.A. degree. This studentship isSprimanly intended for competitors educated m India, but is open to those_ who may have gained a British degree in. addition to tho Indian one, which' makes Miss Holland's success a.ll tho more remark■ffitli tho money obtained by tins studentship, she opened n school Jit Mussoorio, an important hill station m tho United' Provinces, which has sinco expanded into the largest private educational establishment an India.- l'or many years Miss Holland has been lion, local secretary of the London Trinity College of Music, amtMias been mads an honorary member of that institution. She has also joined the recently organised Ango-Indian League, and has been appointed to tho league's educational sub-committee. . - In matters connected with Mussoome Miss Holland lias always taken a keen and practical interest. She was the first president of tho Mussoorio Ladies Literary and Debating Society, organised by Mrs.- Hallowes, the well-known* writor, and has greatly assisted in procuring funds for such philanthropic objects as the European Cottage Hospital and tie St. Fidelia and Churclrof England Orphanages'. Miss Holland 'is withal very level-headed and broad>minded, possessed of tact and charm of manner, which liavo'made her a popular as well as prominent resident of Mussoorio.