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...Philippine Minister of Education. Responding to him, Headmaster Peter Caleb said, "We are proud to be part of the Republic of the Philippines." This would never have been said 40 years ago-and only partly because the Republic did not then exist. Although Brent students felt affection for the Filipino houseboys and, indeed, the Filipino people, no one dreamed that any of them might actually enroll. This was an American school in the Philippines, not a Philippine school...
...school was the most determinedly American institution the alumni had ever known. Founded by the Episcopal Church in 1909, it had not accepted Filipino students before World War II, and no Filipinos were on its faculty. Americans may have prided themselves on a benign colonial policy, but not that benign. Almost all the 100 students used to be Americans, the sons and daughters of Army and Navy officers, Government officials and businessmen who had some how landed in the Philippines...
Acquino was not the first foreign democratic leader, dispossessed or excluded from power and politics at home, who was welcomed and supported at Harvard. As somebody who enjoyed the privilege of Beaigno's friendship may i pay tribute to Harvard when harvard honors the late Filipino patriot. This was in the noblest tradition of American democracy and of academic freedom in its universities. Benigno recognized that the Veritas of John Harvard was not just a commitment to the expanding horizons of knowledge but to upholding the torch and democracy round the world. Benigno Acqaino's years at Harvard will...
...widow of slain Filipino senator Benigno S. Aquino came to Cambridge yesterday to attend a memorial service for her husband organized by former colleagues from Harvard and MIT, where Aquino held fellowships...
...service, held at 4:30 p.m. in St. Paul's Church, drew a crowd of about 200 professors, students and members of the Filipino community...