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requires authorization to continue in the work of teaching. The name of 

 the school up to the present has been the Superior Normal School for 

 Schoolmasters and in the future will be known by this name. 



I hope, sir, that you will be kind enough to grant written authority for 

 the continuation of this school on the same conditions as during the last two 

 years. 



The following reply to the foregoing communication was 

 submitted by Dr. David P. Barrows, at that time city super- 

 intendent of schools for Manila: 



This institution, although belonging to and under the direction of a reli- 

 gious order, was established by the Spanish Government as a factor in its 

 system of instruction, all salaries and expenses being paid from the public 

 funds. This arrangement continued after the American occupation by a 

 verbal order of the military governor authorizing the payment to this insti- 

 tution and to the Ateneo of 1,145 pesos every month for the salaries of the 

 teachers and 187.17 pesos for rent of the buildings used by the said religious 

 order. The normal school was also furnished material for its classes through 

 this department. 



By a recent resolution of the Philippine Commission, this institution 

 ought not to receive any aid from the public funds after the present month. 

 This school will not henceforth form part of the public-school system, but 

 will be on the same footing as any other private school. In section 25 of 

 the law establishing the Department of Public Instruction we read: "There 

 shall be nothing in this law to prevent, hinder, or stop the formation and 

 continuation of private schools in these Islands." It appears that written 

 authority is not necessary for the continuation of this institution as a private 

 school, but there seems to be no reason why it shall not be given. 



THE WITHDRAWAL OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND FINAL CLOSING OF THE NORMAL 



SCHOOL 



On March 30, 1901, Maj. Gen. Arthur McArthur promulgated 

 an order authorizing the Superior Normal School to continue 

 its work as a private institution, but withholding further financial 

 assistance. 



Owing to the unsettled times incident to the war, the increase 

 in the cost of living, the withdrawal of financial support, the 

 discarding of Spanish as the language of the schools, and the 

 change in the sovereignty of the Islands, the normal school 

 was never able to get fairly upon its feet after the American 

 occupation. However, it remained open and continued to turn 

 out small classes of graduates until 1905, when its doors were 

 finally closed after a useful career of forty years. 



31 The present Philippine Normal School is in no way an outgrowth of the 

 Spanish Normal School for Men Teachers. For several years the two insti- 

 tutions were located on adjoining campuses, but each managed its own 

 affairs and sent forth its graduates entirely independent of the other. 



