[54] Grado de revalida is the aggregate of exercises and examinations which must be taken by students (in spite of having been examined every year) on the completion of any course (for example that of elementary or superior schoolmaster or mistress), in order to obtain the certificate or diploma of their degree. There are many degrees: doctor, licentiate, bachelor, primary schoolmaster, etc.—Francisco Giner de los Rios. [↑]
[55] Inscripción: the entering of a student in the school register. This word is also used in general for any record of a name, person, or thing, in a list or register.—Francisco Giner de los Rios. [↑]
[56] Encerado: a square of oilskin, used as a slate or blackboard. See New Velázquez Dictionary. [↑]
[57] Cedulas de inscripción are the documents which are given to the students, certifying that they have been registered in the matriculation books.—Francisco Giner de los Rios. [↑]
[58] Literally, “Paper of payment to the State.” This is a kind of stamped paper with its stamp authorized by the State, whose price varies according as the stamp represents the value of an impost which is collected in judicial and many other affairs. In the centers of State teaching, the fees which are to be paid by the students for their matriculation are not paid in money, but by presenting a special paper which is bought in certain shops.—Francisco Ginder de los Rios. [↑]
[59] Hoja de estudios: the document on which are entered the studies which a student has had, and in which he has been examined, with their official value.—Francisco Giner de los Rios. [↑]
[60] Cedula personal: an official document declaring the name, occupation, domicile, etc., of the bearer, and serving for identification. See New Velázquez Dictionary. [↑]
[61] Matrícula de honor: a reward obtained by the best students of each class, by virtue of the term examinations. By this reward they are registered free in the matriculation of the following year.—Francisco Giner de los Rios. [↑]
[62] St. Stanislas Kostka (or Kotska) was born of a noble Polish family in 1550. While pursuing his studies at Vienna (1563–66), in the Jesuit college, his predilection to the religious life was clearly manifest, but since the provincial would not receive him there without the consent of his parents, he ran away, and tried to gain admission to the Jesuit order in Dilingen, Germany. To avoid the pursuit of his parents he was sent to Rome, where he was received into the order by St. Francis Borja in 1567. Naturally of a delicate constitution, the extreme bodily mortifications which he practiced in his youthful enthusiasm undermined his health, and he died August 14, 1568, at the age of eighteen. See Baring Gould’s Lives of the Saints (London, 1898), xiii, pp. 322–325. [↑]
[63] i.e., the decree of the government, ordering “let it be done.” [↑]