Virgilio de los reyes biography for kids
Sino si ventura de los reyes.
Remembering the Ateneo’s ‘Immortals’
The Ateneo, with its liberal Anglo-Saxon and Philippine approach, was a counterpoint to the more conservative Fil-Hispanic and Dominican Sto.
Tomas University on España street in Manila. The latter had transferred in the ‘30s from its original 1611 seat in Intramuros and still kept close cultural ties with Spain through its academic traditions.
Isabelo de los reyes contribution in la solidaridad
UST’s fortuitous move in the 1930s preserved its magnificent library and museum, which would have perished in the WWII Intramuros holocaust of 1945. The UST still harbored Spanish Dominicans and kept quaint Victorian practices such as rigid separation of the sexes in classrooms and on stairways.
On the other hand, the Ateneo was a modern Catholic riposte to its secular neighbor in Diliman, the University of the Philippines, which had been founded in American times. They had also been neighbors on Padre Faura Street in Manila before their mutual exodus to Quezon City.
Both institutions now hu