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Show OUR FIRST PRIMARY SCHOOL. In the town of Texcoco, says the Leader of San-Francisco, San-Francisco, across the lake of the same name, from the City of Mexico, a remarkable monument is soon to be created. It will not be pretentious, but will commemorate the founder of the first primury school on the American continent. His name was Father Gante, a native of Flanders sand better known in Mexican history as Brother Teter' of Ghent. The Franciscan friar established his school in Texcoco a hundred years before any institution of the same kind arose in the. present territory of the Fnited States. As a friend of the Indians, the name of Father Gante is second only to that of the illustrious and saintly Bishop Las Casas. |