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Far Eastern University

Pamantasan ng Malayong Silangan sa Lungsod ng


Maynila

Motto Love of Fatherland and God


Established 1934 (university status)
Type Private, non-sectarian
President Lydia B. Echauz, DBA
Undergraduates 23,928 [1]
Postgraduates 3,961 [1]
Manila, Metro Manila,
Location
Philippines
Campus 40,000 m²
Hymn The FEU Hymn by Nick Joaquin
Colors Green and gold

Mascot Mighty Tamaraw


Affiliations ASAIHL, PACU, UAAP
Website www.feu.edu.ph
Far Eastern University (FEU) (PSE: FEU) in the City of Manila, West Sampaloc, University
Belt area is a nonsectarian, private university in the Philippines. Created by the merger of Far
Eastern College and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, FEU became a university in
1934 under the guidance of first president Nicanor Reyes, Sr. It soon became the leading
proprietary, for-profit university in the Philippines.[2] FEU's campus is noted for a number of
historical buildings preserved from the first half of the 20th century.
History

Presidents of
Far Eastern University

Nicanor I. Reyes Sr., 1934-1942

Hermenigildo B. Reyes, 1945-1946

Clemente Q. Uson, 1946-1949

Vidal A. Tan, 1949-1952

Teodoro T. Evangelista, 1952-1970

Nicanor M. Reyes Jr., 1970-1985

Josephine Cojuangco-Reyes, 1985-


1989

Felixberto C. Sta. Maria, 1989-1995

Edilberto C. de Jesus, 1995-2002

Lydia B. Echauz, 2002-present

Far Eastern University was founded in 1934 when the Far Eastern College and the Institute of
Accounts, Business and Finance (IABF) merged.[2][3] Far Eastern College, founded in 1919, had
been a liberal arts college in Quiapo; the IABF had been established (originally under the name
Institute of Accountancy) by Nicanor Reyes, Sr., head of the Department of Economics of the
University of the Philippines, with a number of other prominent educators in 1928.[3][4] IABF had
been originally predominately used by night students, and the new university, which was
supported by the tuition provided by its students rather than government grants, soon
demonstrated that a private university was financially sustainable in the Philippines.[3][4]
In its earliest days, FEU was housed in a converted tobacco factory already present on the four
hectare (nearly 10 acre) plot which would eventually host the current campus.[3][4] Reyes Sr. was
appointed the first president of the University, which spent its early years establishing several of
its institutes, including those of Law and Technology. Reyes commissioned Pablo Antonio, who
would later be titled National Artist of the Philippines, to construct a building for the school.[5] In
1939, the Nicanor Reyes Hall, which would later house the library and Institute of Accounting,
Business and Finance, opened. Two other buildings by Antonio, the Girls’ High School Building
and Boys High School Building, followed in 1940 and 1941,[5] by which year FEU had 10,000
registered students, with an international student population of 400.[6]
During World War II, the campus was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army, who left only its
shell unharmed.[4] Dr. Nicanor Reyes having been killed during the occupation, Dr. Hermenigildo
B. Reyes was appointed the second president of the University when it reopened in 1945.[4]
Thereafter, FEU continued to expand, with the opening of a Science Building and the
establishment of the Institute of Medicine and the School of Nursing. In 1955, the FEU hospital
was opened. Humanities were introduced in 1959, and in 1970 the Institute of Architecture and
Fine Arts opened. Also in 1970, the for-profit status of the Institute of Medicine, School of
Medical Technology, FEU Hospital and the Student Health Service Clinic was altered, when
these were converted in the FEU Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, a non-stock, non-profit
educational foundation.[4]
1989 introduced substantial revitalization to FEU that took place over a number of years, with
renovation and modernization of facilities and grounds and upgrading of the University's
educational standard. This resulted in the accreditation of the Institute of Arts and Sciences, the
Institute of Education, and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, and, in the mid-
1990s, the deregulation of the University by the Commission on Higher Education. The
auditorium was upgraded to accommodate modern stage productions and the new twice-monthly
presentations by local and international artists established by the President's Committee on
Culture. The University also prioritized publication, launching a number of scholarly journals,
and began networking with other institutions nationally and abroad.[4]
Campus
Among the buildings on FEU's campus complex, five by Pablo Antonio garnered recognition for
FEU in 2005 from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), who bestowed the Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage on the
university for "the outstanding preservation of its Art Deco structures." [5] The buildings include
the Nicanor Reyes Hall, the FEU East Asia College of Engineering and Computer Studies, the
Law and Nursing Building, Auditorium/Administration Building and the Science Building. The
buildings were constructed over a period of years ranging from 1939 to 1950 and reflect
Antonio's evolution from Art Deco to the International Style popularized in the area after World
War II.[5] The Cultural Center of the Philippines also recognized the historical legacy of the
buildings with a marker. Other historical buildings on the campus include the 1950s FEU
Chapel, FEU Hospital, and the Arts and Sciences Building, which also represent the International
Style.

Images around campus


The Administration Building
at FEU.

The Institute of Architecture


and Fine Arts
Feu
Feu was previously the most common form of land tenure in Scotland, as conveyancing in Scots
law was dominated by feudalism until the Scottish Parliament passed the Abolition of Feudal
Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000.[1] The word is the Scots variant of fee.[2]
Prior to 1832 only the vassals of the crown had votes in parliamentary elections for the Scots
counties, and this made in favour of subinfeudation as against sale outright. This was changed by
the Scottish Reform Act 1832 which increased the franchise in Scotland from 4,500 to 64,447 [3]
In Orkney and Shetland land is still largely possessed as udal property, a holding derived or
handed down from the time when these islands belonged to Norway.[4] Such lands could
previously be converted into feus at the will of the proprietor and held from the Crown or the
Marquess of Zetland.
At one time the system of conveyancing by which the transfer of feus was effected was curious
and complicated, requiring the presence of parties on the land itself and the symbolical handing
over of the property (for example, by throwing a shoe onto the dirt) together with the registration
of various documents. However, legislation since the middle of the 19th century has changed all
that.[citation needed] The system of feuing in Scotland, as contrasted with that of long leaseholds in
England, tended to secure greater solidity and firmness in the average buildings of the northern
country.[citation needed]
Various reforms were attempted before feu was eventually abolished by the Abolition of Feudal
Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000.
In feu holding there is a substantial annual payment in money or in kind in return for the
enjoyment of the land. The crown is the first overlord or superior, and land is held of it by crown
vassals, but they in their turn may feu their land, as it is called, to others who become their
vassals, whilst they themselves are mediate overlords or superiors; and this process of sub-
infeudation may be repeated to an indefinite extent. The Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874
rendered any clause in a disposition against subinfeudation null and void.[5]
Casualties, which are a feature of land held in feu, are certain payments made to the superior,
contingent on the happening of certain events. The most important was the payment of an
amount equal to one years feu-duty by a new holder, whether heir or purchaser of the feu. The
Conveyancing Act of 1874 abolished casualties in all feus after that date, and power was given to
redeem this burden on feus already existing. If the vassal does not pay the feu-duty for two years,
the superior, among other remedies, may obtain by legal process a decree of irritancy,
whereupon tinsel or forfeiture of the feu follows.

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