3. At Vigan also is the Augustinian Seminary and College, under
the direction of the fathers, seven of whom are teachers. Here
209 students were taught the following branches (as set down in the
report): viz., Dogmatic Theology, Moral Theology, Metaphysics, Logic,
Ethics, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, Poetry, Rhetoric, Trigonometry,
Geometry, Algebra, Arithmetic, Analysis, and translation of Latin,
Greek, French, Church History, Natural History, Universal History,
History of Spain, History of the Philippines, Christian Doctrine.
The Augustinians also conducted a splendid orphanage and industrial
school at Tambohn, about a league from Manila. In this establishment
145 boys were taught the following trades (Report for 1897-1898):
Compositors, 13; press-work, 12; bookbinders, 30; gilders, 3;
candle-makers, 43; together with forty-four others too young to
be trained.
4. Neither was the education of the female sex neglected. Among other
establishments of a like nature, there was an orphan asylum for girls
at Mandaloya on the Tasig, conducted by Augustinian nuns, twenty-two
in number. Last year it contained 122 pupils, who were receiving
instruction in music, the piano, painting, drawing, embroidery,
artificial flower-making, dressmaking, hair-dressing, lacemaking,
laundry work, and sewing.
5. The Franciscans had colleges as well, and besides doing their
share in the work of education, devoted their time and services to
the hospitals of the Archipelago, the principal of which are, the
Royal Hospital of St. Lazarus at Manila, the Infirmary of St. Ann in
the province of Laguna, and that of Vasa in the province of Camarines.
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