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[ Escuela Normal y Escuela Práctica ]

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"The university’s origins date to 1899 when the Island Board of Public Education offered $15,000 a year to any town that would invest a matching amount in creating a normal school. Fajardo accepted the proposal and the Normal Industrial School was…

[ University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras ]

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"The university’s origins date to 1899 when the Island Board of Public Education offered $15,000 a year to any town that would invest a matching amount in creating a normal school. Fajardo accepted the proposal and the Normal Industrial School was…

"Carrillon Tower" at University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

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This strikingly beautiful tower of the Administration Building of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras has a modern carillon of 25 chimes costing $20,000 - which were purchased with donations made by students, friends and graduates of the…

University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, P. R.

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University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, P. R., with its magnificent Tower and Carillon and well kept campus, compares favorably with the best of its kind in the world, and is positively the best in the Antilles.