Resumen:
According to the articles of Incorporation of 1911, which were revised and
stated more specifically in the 1920 charter, the Polytechnic Institute of
Puerto Rico "is to be of the rank of a college or university" and its objective
is "to develop youth of both sexes mentally, morally and physically, through
the regularly accepted studies in liberal and practical arts and sciences, the
study of the Bible (not from a sectarian standpoint) , which shall be used as a
text book in the work of all its students, and the performance of manual labor
by students domlciled at the Institution, thus to produce well-rounded character
resourceful, independent, and of sturdy Christian faith...