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CMS College, Kottayam has many firsts, and a college magazine is one of them. Named 'Vidyasamgraham', the college magazine was an in-house journal meant for educating students in various subjects beyond the syllabus and also for engaging them in writerly and scholarly activities. The first issue came out in 1864, and the college's pioneering efforts [...]

How does one express that CMS College was the first "College," not a grammar school or any other kind of primary educational institution? It is because it introduced the same syllabus that Cambridge and Oxford followed in their educational curriculum. Euclidean mathematics was one of the prominent subjects in the great colleges of Western universities, [...]

K.R. Narayanan [1920-2005] was the 10th President of India from 1997 to 2002.  He was born on October 27, 1920, in Uzhavoor, Kottayam district. Supported by a scholarship from the Travancore Royal Family, K.R. Narayanan completed his intermediate education at CMS from 1938 to 1940. In 1944, Narayanan was awarded a Tata Scholarship of Rs. [...]

This panel is one of the non-narrative panels in the relief series at CMS College. It features a central logo of the Church of South India (CSI) and the emblems of four constituent Christian denominations: Anglican, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Methodist. The union ceremony of the Church of South India took place at St George's Cathedral [...]

Church Missionary Society (CMS) was founded in 1799 in London for undertaking missionary works in Asia and Africa. It was initiated by the Evangelical clergy of the Church of England. The missionaries of the Church of England believed in the Bible, personal conversion and piety. In 1812, the mission was renamed as Church Missionary Society [...]

Col. Munroe became the Resident of Travancore-Kochi in 1810. He also got the additional charge of Kochi in the successive years. He thought of improving the educational standards in the states under his charge. Munroe was also keen in abolishing social ills like slavery. He decided to establish a seminary college. In 1813 Col. Munroe [...]

Regent of Travancore Royal Family Rani Laxmi Bai had given an island to Col. Munroe in order to do productive activities that would fund the educational facilities in the CMS College. The untimely demise of the Rani Laxmi Bai had made Rani Parvathi Bai as the Regent. By the year 1814 Col. Munroe had resigned [...]

Col. Munroe became the Resident of Travancore-Kochi in 1810. He also got the additional charge of Kochi in the successive years. He thought of improving the educational standards in the states under his charge. Munroe was also keen in abolishing social ills like slavery. He decided to establish a seminary college. In 1813 Col. Munroe [...]

In 1816 May fourth, Benjamin Bailey and his wife Elizabeth Ella started their journey to India from the Portsmouth dock in a ship named ‘Hero’. They were accompanied by Bailey’s sister Sarah Archer and her husband Rev.Dowson. At the Cape of Good Hope the sea turned rough and it delayed their journey for some time. [...]

There was a grammar school as a part of the Kottayam College. In England the secondary schools that taught grammar, language and the basics of other subjects were called Grammar Schools. Kottayam Grammar School followed that model. The missionaries wanted to establish three grammar schools. One was in Kottayam and the other two were in [...]