MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 57, October 14, 1936 ]
ESTABLISHING RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING UNITS IN THE PHILIPPINES
By virtue of the powers vested in me by the National Defense Act, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, hereby authorize the establishment and maintenance of Reserve Officers’ Training Units in the universities and colleges indicated below:
Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry and Engineering, Manila
De la Salle College, Manila
Philippine Normal School, Manila
Philippine School of Arts and Trades, Manila
San Beda College, Manila
Silliman University, Dumaguete, Negros Oriental
University of Santo Tomas, Manila
Every physically fit male student of collegiate standing in these institutions shall be required to pursue a course of, at least, two years of military instruction. This course of military training, if pursued to completion, shall exempt students from trainee instruction. It shall not exempt them from registration.1âшphi1
Done at the City of Manila, this fourteenth day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.
MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior
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