Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . f the past, which will soon undergo such changes asscarcely to be recognisable, still history is interesting, and ashort description of the University of Havana, the chiefeducational agency of the Island, its purpose and its future,by Dr. Joaquin Lastres, will not be inappropriate. It maybe said of the University that it has branches in all the pro-vinces, and numbered before 1898 about 3000 students, 1800
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . f the past, which will soon undergo such changes asscarcely to be recognisable, still history is interesting, and ashort description of the University of Havana, the chiefeducational agency of the Island, its purpose and its future,by Dr. Joaquin Lastres, will not be inappropriate. It maybe said of the University that it has branches in all the pro-vinces, and numbered before 1898 about 3000 students, 1800of whom were in Havana. Dr. Lastres writes as follows,under date of September, 1898, in Havana: The University of Havana, which is the highest institutionof instruction in the Island of Cuba, has, ever since its founda-tion in 1721, had a personality of its own, and consequently ithas never been considered a property, or dependency of theState ; but, like municipalities and deputations, has constitutedan institution, self-supporting as regards the State. Since itsfoundation it has occupied buildings that have not been Stateproperty. At the beginning, its own property and income main-. Education and Religion 379 tained it ; but in 1842, without removing its own judicial indi-viduality, the State undertook its maintenance in exchange forthe confiscation of its property and income. The Institute de 2aJEnsenanza (The Institution of Elementary Instruction) is only adependency of the University under the same judicial conception,owing to its having substituted the old College of the University,which in its turn was formed of several schools teaching differentbranches of learning, which were within the sphere of the Uni-versitys jurisdiction at the time of its foundation in 1721. Con-sequently, this elementary school has to-day the same judicialcharacter as the University. The property and estate seized by the State in exchange forthe obligation to maintain this institution were numer
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