is almost at the very doors of this holy church, and, consequently, best suited for the assistance of the seminarists at the choir and functions of the altar, moves me to this petition. May God our Lord preserve the holy Catholic person of your Majesty the many years that I petition, and that Christendom finds necessary." [51] The Order of the Piarists or Fathers of the Pious Schools, was founded in 1597 by San José de Calasanz. Their schools resemble those of the Jesuits, and many of the latter entered the Piarist order on the suppression of the Society of Jesus. See also VOL. XLVI, note 49. [52] Nozaleda, ut supra, p. 55; and Senate Document, no. 190, p. 31. [53] Calderon's Colegio de San José, appendix, document no. 3, pp. ix-xiii. [54] Nozaleda's Colegio de San José, appendix, document no. 10, pp. xv-xix. [55] Nozaleda, ut supra, pp. 61, 62; and Senate Document, no. 190, pp. 31, 32. [56] Census of Philippines, iii, pp. 610, 611. [57] See post, pp. 163-165, note 81. [58] Senate Document, no. 190, p. 32, and Montero y Vidal, iii, pp. 542-547. [59] Census of Philippines, iii, p. 611. [60] James A. LeRoy writing in the Political Science Quarterly (p. 674) for December, 1903, says: "The Dominicans promised to devote the income of this endowment [i.e., of San José college] to courses in medicine and pharmacy, never before taught in the islands. In a report on the medical college made to the American authorities last year, a German physician of Manila stated that it had no library worth considering, that some textbooks dated back to 1845, that no female cadaver had ever been dissected and the anatomy course was a farce, that most graduates never had attended even one case of confinement or seen a laparotomy, and that bacteriology had been introduced only since American occupation and was still taught without microscopes." [61] Calderon's Colegio de San José, appendix, p. vi; and Senate Document, p. 34. [62] Senate Document, no. 190, pp. 27, 28. [63] St. Joseph's College (Statement of Most Rev. P. L. Chapelle), p. 50. [64] Colegio de San José, p. 3. [65] Ut supra, p. 5. [66] Senate Document, no. 190. [67] Two pamphlets, each entitled: El Colegio de San José (Manila, 1900). [68] See a concise statement of the arguments of each side in Senate Document, no. 190, pp. 34-39. [69] See Senate Document, no. 190, pp. 41-46. [70] We are indebted for considerable material regarding the San José College case to James A. LeRoy, now (1906) United States consul at Durango, Mexico, formerly secretary to Hon. Dean C. Worcester in Manila, and a notable worker in modern Philippine history and conditions. [71] See also San Antonio's sketch, VOL. XXVIII, pp. 136-139. [72] Signatura: a tribunal of the Roman court, composed of several prelates, in which various matters of grace and justice are determined. See Novísimo Diccionario.