UP marker in front of the Oblation

UP marker in front of the Oblation
The marker reads:

University of the Philippines
Founded 1908
25th anniversary of the "Exodus"

This marker commemmorates the transfer of the university from the cramped quadrangle on Padre Faura, Manila, to the spacious campus in Diliman, Quezon City. President B. M. Gonzalez effected the Exodus during the Christmas Recess of 1948-1949 and classes were resumed on the new campus in January 1949 in sawali and quonset huts vacated by the U.S. Army. The transfer enabled the university to develop into the multiversity it has become now known as the University of the Philippines System, established in 1972. The spaciousness of the campus matched by the largeness of the ideas to which the university is dedicated as well as of the purposes it serves, we owe to the courage and vision of President Gonzelez.

Signed:

Salvador P. Lopez
President

Dedicated on April 27, 1974

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