Objectives of the University as shown in the charter of Inter American University and explained in the catalog of 1931-1932.

Abstract

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...