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and on April 5 prizes were awarded and diplomas issued to 

 39 graduates. 



At the opening of the school year in June 125 new pupils 

 were admitted and a considerable number turned away for lack 

 of accommodations. . 



Two material changes in the internal regulations of the school 

 were effected at this time. The first of these prescribed the 

 time and manner of making confessions by both boarders and 

 day pupils. The other pertained to the inspection of the 

 students in the evening. A priest was placed on duty as door- 

 keeper, and the passing in and out of the building after supper 

 was thus regulated. 



The feast of San Francisco Xavier was celebrated with especial 

 joy. A comedy was given, two balloons were let go, and the' 

 sky was brilliantly illuminated with hundreds of rockets. 



In 1872 occurred the famous Cavite revolt, but the authorities 

 of the normal school were pleased to note that this did not 

 have any apparent effect upon the student body. 



In 1874 the superior civil government of the Philippines 

 decreed that no petition for admission to the normal school 

 should be sent except through a provincial governor. During 

 the same year other decrees were issued fixing the number of 

 resident pupils. 



On June 22, 1880, a royal order of the ministry of the colonies 

 set aside a permanent sum of money to be assigned in the 

 budget for the maintenance of the school. It was during the 

 same year that the building was destroyed by an earthquake. 

 The classes were for a few days accommodated at the Ateneo, 

 being held in hallways, corridors, and every other available 

 space large enough for a recitation. As it was impossible to 

 continue this arrangement for a long period and as no other 

 house sufficiently large could be found, the mission of the 

 company of Jesuits rented to the government for the use of 

 the school a building which it possessed in the neighboring 

 pueblo of Santa Ana. This was occupied by the school for a 

 period of six years. Meanwhile, seeing that no other means 

 were forthcoming for giving this school a suitably large building 

 and as the house at Santa Ana was inconveniently located, the 

 mission resolved to take under its care the enterprise of erecting 

 and equipping a new building. This structure, situated in the 

 district of Ermita, was the home of the normal school from 

 1886 until the institution finally closed its doors. 



