ction, including National
Schools in the Provinces 38,513 70
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P238,650 34

The teaching offered to students in Manila was very advanced, as will
be seen from the following Syllabus of Education in the Municipal
Athenaeum of the Jesuits:--

Agriculture. Geometry. Philosophy.
Algebra. Greek. Physics and Chemistry.
Arithmetic. History. Rhetoric and Poetry.
Commerce. Latin. Spanish Classics.
Geography. Mechanics. Spanish Composition.
English. Natural History. Topography.
French. Painting. Trigonometry.

In the highest Girls' School--the Santa Isabel College--the following
was the curriculum, viz.:--

Arithmetic. Geology. Philippine History.
Drawing. Geometry. Physics.
Dress-cutting. History of Spain. Reading.
French. Music. Sacred History.
Geography. Needlework. Spanish Grammar.

There were also (for girls) the Colleges of Santa Catalina, Santa
Rosa, La Concordia, the Municipal School, etc. A few were sent to
the Italian Convent in Hong-Kong.

A college known as Saint Thomas' was founded in Manila by Fray Miguel
de Benavides, third Archbishop of Manila, between the years 1603
and 1610. He contributed to it his library and P 1,000, to which
was added a donation by the Bishop of Nueva Segovia of P 3,000 and
his library. In 1620 it already had professors and masters under
Government auspices. It received three Papal Briefs for 10 years
each, permitting students to graduate in Philosophy and Theology. It
was then raised to the status of a University in the time of Philip
IV. by Papal Bull of November 20, 1645. The first rector of Saint
Thomas' University was Fray Martin Real de la Cruz. In the meantime,
the Jesuits' University had been established. Until 1645 it was the
only place of learning superior to primary education, and conferred
degrees. The Saint Thomas' University (under the direction of Dominican
friars) now disputed the Jesuits' privilege to confer degrees, claiming
for themselves exclusive right by Papal Bull. A lawsuit fol