This week’s milestones

Aug. 28, 1901 Silliman University (SU) in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental was founded through a $10,000 grant from a retired businessman, Dr. Horace B. Silliman, who believed that Filipinos needed a new kind of education—an industrial school. SU began as an institute with 15 students, all boys. Enrollment grew gradually to include students from other