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

130 SULU ARCHIPELAGO AN) ITS PEOPLE

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A girls' game of indoor baseball at Jolo. The home team is playing against
a team from Siasi,

tutions in Sulu. It is, indeed, both school and home for
its pupils and a pleasant resort for their parents.
THE JOLO GIRLS' DORMITORY
In keeping with the policy of attraction, a girls' dormitory was opeed at Jolo, on August 29, 1916. Before
that date there were practically no Mohammnedan girls
in the public schools.
On account of their great influence with the rest of
the people, special efforts were at first made to bring
into the dormitory girls of the local aristocracy. Officials of the government and of the Bureau of Education
made many arduous trips and employed great tact in
order to secure the desired enrollhnent. Almost insurmountable difficulties had to be overcome to persuade
the scrupulous datus to send their daughters to the
dormitory. No little credit is due to Mr. John V.
Crowe, during whose superintendency of schools in
Sulu most of the work prelininary to the establishment