The Ateneo de Manila University was founded when the city of Manila handed over a municipal school to the Society of Jesus, recently returned to the Philippines after a long absence. When the United States took control of the islands in 1900, the institution was severed from its government support and became a private Jesuit institution. It remains as a Catholic university today. (By John Osborne)
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Philippines: Webster's Quotations, Facts, and Phrases (San Diego, CA: Icon International, 2008), 366.
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