The Sulu Archipelago and its people, by Sixto Y. Orosa ...

126 SULU ARCHIPELAGO AND ITS PEOPLE were practically no Mohammedan girls in the public schools except those in the girls' dornitory in Jolo Now thousands of Mohanmedan girls are receiving instruction in public schools. In December, 1919, the annual enrollment of girls in public schools of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu was 18,596. This number represents an increase of 3831, or 39 per cent, over the annual enrollment for December, 1918. Today the Philippine Government has the united support of many of the more intelligent of the Mohammedan Filipinos. Miss Bagungan Inuk, president of the town of Buluan, Cotabato, the only woman in the Philippines who is holding a municipal office by virtue of election, has built and equipped a girls' dormitory where more than 100 Mohammedan girls are now attending school. Six of the highest ranking Mohammedan princesses of the sultanate of Sulu are now teaching in the public schools. One of these is a niece of the sultan. There The Central School at Jolo.

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The Sulu Archipelago and its people, by Sixto Y. Orosa ...
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Orosa, Sixto Y 1891-
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Yonkers on Hudson, N. Y.,: World book company,
1931.
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Muslims -- Philippines
Sulu (Philippines)

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