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She has held the position of teacher in the 

 vocational school and often lectured in the 

 summer normal schools in the Cuban capi- 

 tal. In 1 910 she won the first prize in the 

 Province of Havana at an official competi- 

 tion open to public school teachers. After 

 she had followed advanced studies in the 

 University of Havana for several years, she 

 received the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy, 

 1909, and Doctor of Philosophy and Letters 

 in 1913. In 1915, when the new normal 

 schools of the republic were founded, she 

 obtained after competition in Havana the 

 chair of grammar, composition, elocution, 

 Spanish and Cuban literature in the normal 

 school, a position which she now occupies, 

 having been at the same time the first 

 superintendent of this school. She has 

 published a monograph, El Romance en 

 Cuba, which obtained the prize in the liter- 

 ary competition of the National Academy of 

 Arts and Letters in 19 13, and also an edu- 

 cational book, Lecciones de Lcnguaje, which 

 was rewarded with an especial silver medal 

 at the St. Louis Exposition and adopted as 

 a textbook in the public schools of Cuba. 



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