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Ateneo de Manila University

The Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) is a private university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. Its main campus is located in Loyola Heights, in Quezon City, Metro Manila. It offers programs at the elementary, secondary, college, graduate, and post-graduate levels in various fields such as the arts, humanities, business, law, social sciences, theology, and the pure and applied sciences. Aside from teaching, the Ateneo de Manila also engages in extensive research and social outreach work.

It is one of only two schools in the country to receive Level IV accreditation, the highest possible level, from the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines and the PAASCU. This mark of distinction is awarded to institutions which have distinguished themselves in a broad area of academic discipline and enjoy prestige and authority comparable to that of international universities.

Ateneo de Manila University - Institution

The Ateneo de Manila University operates from several campuses throughout Metro Manila, each campus housing different academic and research units. Several thousand faculty serve a diverse student body of different ages in different academic levels, from elementary to postgraduate. The Loyola Schools, the teritiary unit has around 7,500 undergraduate students and around 3,000 graduate students, making the Ateneo a small school in terms of population relative to other Philippine universities.

The University grew out of a primary school taken over by Spanish Jesuits in 1859, and is now a full university engaging in teaching, research, and social outreach. Academic programs are geared toward some sort of praxis and real-world output, through which the University and its community engage social problems, especially in areas of national development.

Ateneo de Manila University - The Ateneo Commitment: A Faith that Does Justice

The Ateneo has grounded its vision and mission in Jesuit educational tradition. The university's vision-mission statement may be summarized as follows:

"The Ateneo de Manila, a Filipino university, aims to form men and women who critically examine their world and pursue excellence and leadership in order to solve social problems and to drive sustainable, inclusive, and empowering human development in the Philippines and the world at large."

The university is highly involved in civic work, and for the Ateneo, social involvement is not merely extra-curricular, but is at the very core of the Ateneo education.

Some of the Ateneo's social projects such as the Ateneo-Mangyan Project for Understanding and Development and Bigay Puso at the Grade School, the Christian Service and Involvement Program, Banlaw immersion, and Tulong Dunong program for senior students, all at the High School, at the College, the many progams by the Office of Social Concern and Involvement such as builds with Gawad Kalinga and Kalinga Luzon, the Labor Trials Program which is tied in with juniors' Philosophy classes, and at the Professional Schools, projects such as the Graduate School of Business' Mulat-Diwa, the Leaders for Health Project, the Law School's Human Rights Center and Legal Aid programs, to name a few. Other projects include the Pathways to Higher Education program, a tie-up with the Ford Foundation which is a comprehensive response to the problem faced by academically-gifted by financially-underprivileged youth who who seek a college education. There are also programs by the Ateneo Center for Educational Development.

The centerpiece social program of the university is its only university-wide social action program, its partnership with Gawad Kalinga.

Ateneo de Manila University - Administration

The Ateneo de Manila is governed by a Board of Trustees, currently chaired by alumnus Manuel Pangilinan. A central administration, led by the University President, Fr. Bienvenido F. Nebres, S.J., oversees key initiatives related to academics, international programs, university development and alumni relations, personnel, security, and other university-wide concerns.

Individual units and departments are usually led by a vice president, with the exception of the basic education units, led by a director which oversees the leadership of both the High School's principal and the Grade School's headmaster. The Loyola Schools and Professional Schools are led by respective vice presidents, who oversee four deans, who in turn oversee department chairpersons.

Ateneo de Manila University - Admissions

Individual degree-granting units and schools such as the Loyola Schools, Professional Schools, and even the Grade School and High School conduct separate admissions processes. Admission into one unit in no way guarantees admission into another, more advanced unit.

The Ateneo receives thousands of applications from all over the country every year, from prospective students who wish to enroll in one of the units' programs. Admission is quite competitive, especially to the Loyola Schools' college, which has as its main feeders the Ateneo de Manila High School as well as other prestigious high schools from all over the country. Applications from foreigners to the college and graduate school programs are quite common.

Ateneo de Manila University - Organization

The Ateneo de Manila University is composed of school units and auxiliary units. Affiliated units contribute to the work of the different school and auxiliary units, facilitating the work of learning, teaching, research, and social involvement. Individual units enjoy a considerable amount of autonomy from the central administration.

The Ateneo Professional Schools (APS) is the main professional education division of Ateneo de Manila.

The Professional Schools offer degrees such as Master of Business Administration and Master of Arts, and the School of Law confers the Juris Doctor (JD) degree in lieu of the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree. The Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, which opens in 2007, will offer an integrated Doctor of Medicine and Master of Management program. The Professional Schools also confer certificates for short courses.

• AGSB-BAP Institute of Banking
• Ateneo Graduate School of Business
• Ateneo Information Technology Institute
• Ateneo School of Government
• Ateneo School of Law
• Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health
• Center for Continuing Education

The Loyola Schools is the tertiary level school unit of the Ateneo de Manila University that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the arts and sciences. It is composed of the School of Humanities, the John Gokongwei School of Management, the School of Science and Engineering, and the School of Social Sciences.

The Ateneo de Manila High School is a Catholic preparatory school for male students.

The campus features various facilities such as a library, the Instructional Technology Center, the Tanghalang Onofre Pagsanghan (Dulaang Sibol), and a large athletic complex with one of the largest covered courts in the country. In 2003, the High School opened a new building called the Center for Math, Science and Technology, which contains the school's science and computer laboratories.

The High School is also known for religious formation programs, such as the Christian Service and Involvement Program, which is comprised of the Dungaw-Exposure Trip for Freshmen, Dama-Christian Service Program for sophomores, the Damay Immersion Program for juniors, and the Tulong Dunong program for seniors. Other religious formation activities include recollections and retreats. The Ateneo High School is notable for being the first school to hold sessions of Days with the Lord.

The Ateneo de Manila Grade School is an all-boys institution with a current average population of 4000 students. It provides facilities and classrooms for students in the preparatory level to the seventh grade. It is an integral part of the Ateneo de Manila University. It is governed by its own set of by-laws and an internal administrative set-up that answers its peculiar needs. Its current headmaster is Fr. Jose Moises Fermin, S.J.

Auxiliary units are established by the Board of Trustees and follow the general University Policy. They operate with their own staff, some of whom may be drawn from the various schools or other units of the University.

• Ateneo Art Gallery
• Ateneo Center for Asian Studies
• Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development
• Ateneo Center for Educational Development
• Ateneo Center for English Language Training
• Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development
• Ateneo Center for Psychological and Educational Assessment
• Ateneo Center for Social Policy and Public Affairs
• Ateneo de Manila University Press
• Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices
• Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center
• Ateneo Language Center
• Ateneo Research Network for Development
• Ateneo Teacher Center
• Ateneo Wellness Center
• Center for Communication Research and Technology
• Center for Community Services
• Governor Jose B. Fernandez Ethics Center for Business and Public Service
• Institute of Philippine Culture
• Ninoy and Cory Aquino Center for Leadership
• Pathways to Higher Education-Philippines
• Philippines-Australia Studies Network
• National Chemistry Instrumentation Center

Ateneo de Manila University - International Programs

The Ateneo has growing international linkages with universities, institutions, and organizations frpm all over the world, particularly in Asia, Australia, North and South America, and Europe. Through these cooperative efforts, the university hosts visiting faculty and research fellows from institutions abroad, and in turn, Ateneo faculty members also engage in teaching, research, and study in institutions abroad.

International cooperation also includes active student exchange through Philippine immersion programs for a month or two for small groups of 15-18 students or full study programs wherein students from partner instutions abroad take regular courses.

The university also offers students an opportunity to study abroad under a student exchange program during their undergraduate or graduate years. Students engage in either semestral or yearly study or exchange programs in partner universities abroad. Students of the John Gokongwei School of Management can also sign up for the Junior Term Abroad program, wherein they will spend a semester in one of the Ateneo's partner schools for undergraduate business studies.

Ateneo de Manila University - History

The Ateneo de Manila University began in 1859 as a public primary school established in Intramuros in Manila by Spanish Jesuits. Its founding is closely tied to the history of the Society of Jesus as a teaching order in the Philippines.

The first Spanish Jesuits arrived in the Philippines in 1581 as missionaries. They were also custodians of the ratio studiorum, a Jesuit system of education developed about 1559. Within a decade of their arrival, the Society through Fr. Antonio Sedeño, S.J. founded the Colegio de Manila (also known as the Colegio de San Ignacio) in Intramuros in 1590. The San Ignacio formally opened in 1595, and was the first school in the Philippines.

In 1621, Pope Gregory XV through the Archbishop of Manila authorized the San Ignacio to confer degrees in theology and arts and elevated it to a university. In 1623, King Philip IV of Spain confirmed the authorization, making the school both a pontifical and a royal university, and the very first university in the Philippines and in Asia.

However, by the mid-18th century, Catholic colonial powers, notably France, Portugal, and Spain, had grown hostile to the Society of Jesus because the Jesuits actively educated and empowered colonized people. The Society was particularly notorious for encouraging indigenous people to seek self-governance. Because of this, the colonial powers eventually expelled the Society, often quite brutally, from their realms.

In 1768, the Jesuits surrendered the San Ignacio to Spanish civil authorities following their Suppression and their expulsion from Spain and the rest of the Spanish realm, including the Philippines. Under pressure from Catholic royalty, Pope Clement XIV formally declared the dissolution of the Society of Jesus in 1773.

Pope Pius VII reinstated the Society in 1814, after almost seven decades of persecution and over four decades of formal suppression. However, the Jesuits would not return to the Philippines until 1859, almost a century after their expulsion.

Through an 1852 Royal Decree from Queen Isabela II, ten Spanish Jesuits arrived in Manila on 14 April 1859, nearly a century after the Jesuits left the Philippines. This Jesuit mission was sent mainly to do missionary work in Mindanao and Jolo.

Because of the Jesuits' entrenched reputation as educators among Manila’s leaders, on 5 August the Ayuntamiento or city council requested that Governor-General a Jesuit school be founded and financed by public funds. On 1 October 1859, the Governor-General authorized the Jesuits to take over the Escuela Municipal, a small private school maintained for some 30 children of Spanish residents. Partly subsidized by the Ayuntamiento, the Escuela was the only primary school in Manila at the time. The Escuela eventually became the Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1865, elevated to an institution of secondary education. It then offered the bachillerato or bachelor's degree, as well as courses leading to certificates in agriculture, surveying, and business.

After Americans occupied the Philippines in the early 1900s, the Ateneo de Manila lost its government subsidy from the city and became a private institution. The Jesuits removed the word “Municipal” from the school’s official name, and it has since been known as the Ateneo de Manila. In 1908, the American colonial government recognized the Ateneo's college status and licensed its offering the bachelor’s degee and certificates in various disciplines, including electrical engineering. American Jesuits then took over administration in 1912. Fr. Richard O’Brien, S.J., the third American rector, the Ateneo transferred to the location of the San Jose Major Seminary in Padre Faura, Ermita after a fire destroyed the Intramuros campus in 1932.

Devastation hit the Ateneo campus once again during World War II. Only one structure remained standing – the statue of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus which now stands in front of the Jesuit Residence in the Loyola Heights campus. Ironwork and statuary salvaged from the Ateneo ruins have since been incorporated into various existing Ateneo buildings. Some examples are the Ateneo monograms on the gates of the Loyola Heights campus, the iron grillwork on the ground floor of Xavier Hall, and the statue of the Immaculate Conception displayed at the University archives.

But even if the Ateneo campus had been destroyed, the university survived. Following the American liberation, the Ateneo de Manila reopened temporarily in Plaza Guipit in Sampaloc. The Padre Faura campus reopened in 1946 with Quonset huts serving as buildings among the campus ruins.

In 1952, the university, led by Fr. James Masterson, S.J. moved most of its units to its present Loyola Heights campus. Controversy surrounded the decision. An Ateneo Jesuit supposedly said that only the ‘children of Tarzan’ would study in the new campus. But over the years, the Ateneo in Loyola Heights has become the center of a dynamic community. The Padre Faura campus continued to house the professional schools until 1976.

Fr. Francisco Araneta, S.J. was appointed as the Ateneo de Manila's first Filipino Rector in 1958. In 1959, its centennial year, the Ateneo became a university.

Surprisingly, very few coherent and unified narratives of the school's history after 1959 are extant. What follows are anecdotes of landmark events in the past five decades of the Ateneo de Manila University.

The Ateneo's Padre Faura campus closed in 1976 and was sold shortly after. A year after, the Ateneo opened a new campus for its professional schools in Salcedo Village in the bustling business district of Makati. In October 1998, the University completed construction of a bigger site of the Ateneo Professional Schools at Rockwell, also in Makati.

In 2000, the Ateneo de Manila celebrated the Jubilee Year in solidarity with the rest of the Church. The year later saw the community take part in action against then Philippine President Joseph Estrada. In 2001, various sectors in the Ateneo community took part in the popular uprising in EDSA which led to Estrada's ouster.

2002 saw the completion of the Church of the Gesu, the new university church (the first one had been the San Ignacio church in Intramuros, which was destroyed in the Second World War). In 2004, the Ateneo celebrated its 145th anniversary as it joined numerous organization in founding Kalinga Luzon, a group dedicated to the rehabilitation of Luzon in light of typhoons that devasted the Philippines.

Ateneo de Manila University - Campuses

Ateneo de Manila University - Loyola Heights Campus

Overlooking the Marikina Valley, the main campus is located in Loyola Heights, along Katipunan Avenue, and is adjacent to Miriam College.

The Grade School, High School, and Loyola Schools are located in the Ateneo's Loyola Heights campus. Beside the Grade School is the Henry Lee Irwin, S.J. Theater, built in 1996 to house the school's formal events and productions. Complimenting the old buildings of the Loyola Schools are the Science Education Complex, as well as the PLDT Convergent Technologies Center-John Gokongwei School of Management Complex.

Within this campus is the Rizal Library, the main university library. Also located here are numerous units and research centers affiliated with the Ateneo, such as the Institute of Social Order, Asian Public Intellectuals, and others. Also situated here are the East Asian Pastoral Institute, Loyola School of Theology, and San Jose Seminary.

Among the buildings in the campus are the Loyola Center, also known as the Ateneo Blue Eagle Gym, and the Moro Lorenzo Sports Center (MLSC). The Ateneo Gym is one of the largest gymnasiums among the universities in Metro Manila while the MLSC is often used by the Philippine National Basketball Team as well as other professional teams for their training needs.

The Church of the Gesu, completed in July 2002, overlooks the campus. The school's chapels include the St. Stanislaus Kostka chapel in the High School, the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in the College complex's Gonzaga Hall, the chapel at the Loyola House of Studies, and the Chapel of the Holy Guardian Angels in the Grade School, among others.

The university has two on-campus dormitories for college students: Cervini Hall and Eliazo Hall. Located near the Loyola Schools, Cervini accommodates approximately two hundred male students, while Eliazo houses one hundred and sixty female students. Other dormitories which are also open to college and graduate school students are those of the Institute of Social Order and the East Asian Pastoral Institute.

Ateneo de Manila University - Rockwell Center Campus

The Rockwell Center campus of the Ateneo de Manila University houses the Ateneo Professional Schools, namely the School of Law, Graduate School of Business, School of Government, AGSB-BAP Institute of Banking, and the Ateneo Center for Continuing Education.

The campus was donated by the Lopez Group of Companies to the Ateneo de Manila University. The Rockwell structure houses the different faculty departments, classroom and teaching facilities, several research centers, a moot court facility, and the Ateneo Professional Schools Library.

Ateneo de Manila University - Salcedo Campus

The Salcedo Campus houses the different facilities of the Ateneo Information Technology Institute.

Ateneo de Manila University - Ortigas Campus

Opening in 2007 is the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health in Ortigas. The ASMPH will be working with the Medical City hospital.

Ateneo de Manila University - Culture sports and traditions

The Ateneo de Manila University is active in a number of inter-university sport activities, the most notable of which are the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) sporting events.

Ateneo de Manila University - The Ateneo Name

The word and name Ateneo is the Spanish form of Atheneum, which the Dictionary of Classical Antiquities defines as the name of “the first educational institution in Rome” where “rhetoricians and poets held their recitations.” Hadrian’s school drew its name from a Greek temple dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom. The said temple, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, was where “poets and men of learning were accustomed to meet and read their productions.”

Atheneum is also used in reference to schools and literary clubs. The closest English translation is academy, referring to institutions of secondary learning. The Escuela Municipal de Manila actually became the Ateneo Municipal only after it began offering secondary education in 1865.

The Society of Jesus in the Philippines established several other schools, all named Ateneo, since 1865, and over the years, the name Ateneo has become recognized as the official title of Jesuit institutions of higher learning in the Philippines.

When the United States withdrew subsidy from Ateneo in 1901, Father Rector Jose Clos, S.J. dropped the word municipal from the school name, which then became Ateneo de Manila, a name it keeps to this day. Since its university charter was granted in 1959, the school has officially been called the Ateneo de Manila University.

Ateneo de Manila University - Lux-in-Domino

The Ateneo's motto is Lux in Domino, meaning “Light in the Lord.” This is not the school’s original motto. The Escuela Municipal’s 1859 motto was "Al merito y a la virtud": “In Merit and in Virtue.” This motto persisted through the school’s renaming in 1865 and in 1901.

The motto Lux in Domino first appeared as part of the Ateneo seal introduced by Father Rector Joaquin Añon, S.J. for the 1909 Golden Jubilee. It comes from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians, 5.8:“For you were once in darkness, now you are light in the lord. Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.”

Ateneo de Manila University - The Ateneo de Manila Seal

In 1859, the Escuela Municipal carried the coat of arms of the city of Manila, granted by King Philip II of Spain. By 1865, along with the change of name, the school's seal had evolved to include some religious images such as the Jesuit monogram "IHS" and some Marian symbols. A revision was introduced in the school's golden jubilee 1909 with clearer Marian symbols and the current motto, Lux in Domino. This seal was retained for 20 years.

Father Rector Richard O’Brien, S.J. introduced a new seal for Ateneo de Manila’s diamond jubilee in 1929. This seal abandons the arms of Manila and instead adopts a design that uses mostly Jesuit and Ignatian symbols. This is the seal currently used by Ateneo.

The seal is defined by two semi-circular ribbons. The crown (top) ribbon contains the school motto, “Lux-in-Domino”, while the base (bottom) ribbon contains the school name, “Ateneo de Manila”. These ribbons define a circular field on which rests the shield of Oñaz-Loyola: a combination of the arms of the paternal and maternal sides of the family of St. Ignatius.

In precise heraldic terms, the Shield of Oñaz-Loyola may be described as: "Party per pale: Or, seven bendlets Gules; Argent, a two-eared pot hanging on a chain between two wolves rampant." In plain English, the shield is gold, and divided vertically. To the viewer's left is a field of gold with seven red bands. These are the arms of Oñaz, Ignatius' paternal family, which commemorates seven family heroes who fought with the Spaniards against 70,000 French, Navarese, and Gascons. To the viewer's right is a white or silver field with the arms of Loyola, Ignatius' maternal family. The arms consist of a two-eared pot hanging on a chain between two rampant wolves, which symbolize the nobility. The name "Loyola" is actually a contraction of lobos y olla (wolves and pot). The name springs from the family's reputation of being able to provide so well that they could feed even wild wolves.

Above the shield is a Basque sunburst, referring to Ignatius' Basque roots, and also representing a consecrated host. It bears the letters IHS, the first three letters of the Holy Name of Jesus in Greek, and an adaptation of the emblem of the Society of Jesus. Many erroneously believe that the Ateneo de Manila seal features the letters JHS. This stems from the peculiar rendering of the letters in the Ateneo de Manila seal. The letter I is drawn in a florid calligraphic style that conforms to the circle’s shape. It therefore appears similar to a J.

The seal’s colors are blue, white, red, and gold. In traditional heraldry, white or silver (Argent) represents a commitment to peace and truth. Blue (Azure) represents fortitude and loyalty. Red (Gules) represens martyrdom, sacrifice, and strength. Gold (Or) represents nobility and generosity.

White and blue are also Ateneo’s school colors, the colors of Mary. Red and gold are the colors of Spain, home of Ignatius and the Ateneo’s Jesuit founders. Finally, these four tinctures mirror the tinctures of the Philippine flag, marking the Ateneo’s identity as a Filipino University.

Ateneo de Manila University - Marian Devotion

Ateneans value symbols of devotion to Maria Purissima, Queen of the Ateneo. Among them are the rosary in the pocket, the blue October Medal of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, and the alma mater song, “A Song for Mary”.

Ateneo de Manila University - Blue and White

The Ateneo has adopted the colors of Mary, blue and white, as its official school colors. The shade of blue is ultramarine, a tincture derived from lapis lazuli, which historically has been used to color the vestments of Mary in paintings.

Ateneo de Manila University - Blue Eagle

Prior to the 1930s, Ateneo had no mascot. Meanwhile, Catholic Schools in the United States, particularly those named after saints, were distressed by the cheekiness with which they were mentioned in newspapers' sports pages. Headlines read “St. Michael’s Wallops St. Augustine’s,” or “St. Thomas’ Scalps St. Peter’s.” It was then agreed that each school adopt a mascot, a symbol for the team which sportswriters could toss about with impunity.

The idea quickly caught on in the Philippines. By the 1930s, the Ateneo had adopted the Blue Eagle as a symbol, and had a live eagle accompany the basketball team.

The choice of mascot also held iconic significance. It was a reference to the “high-flying” basketball team which would “sweep the fields away;” as a dominating force in NCAA. Furthermore, there was some mythological— even political—significance to the eagle as a symbol of power.

In On Wings of Blue, a booklet of Ateneo traditions, songs, and cheers published in the 1950’s, Lamberto Javellana writes:

“The Eagle—fiery, majestic, whose kingdom is the virgin sky, is swift in pursuit, terrible in battle. He is a king—a fighting king… And thus he was chosen—to soar with scholar’s thought and word high into the regions of truth and excellence, to flap his glorious wings and cast his ominous shadow below, even as the student crusader would instill fear in those who would battle against the Cross. And so he was chosen—to fly with the fleet limbs of the cinder pacer, to swoop down with the Blue gladiator into the arena of sporting combat and with him to fight—and keep on fighting till brilliant victory, or honorable defeat. And so he was chosen—to perch on the Shield of Loyola, to be the symbol of all things honorable, even as the Great Eagle is perched on the American escutcheon, to be the guardian of liberty. And so he was chosen—and he lives, not only in body to soar over his campus aerie, but in spirit, in the Ateneo Spirit… For he flies high, and he is a fighter, and he is King!”

The eagle also appears in the standards of many organizations, schools, and nations as a "guardian of freedom and truth." Dante in his Divine Comedy uses the Eagle as a symbol of the Roman Empire, which used the bird as part of its standard. The ancient Romans considered the eagle sacred to Jupiter himself. The eagle is often seen as the bird of God, the only bird that can fly above the clouds and stare directly at the sun. This is also why it represents St. John the Evangelist, in honor of the "soaring spirit and penetrating vision of his gospel."

It is also worthwhile to note that the national bird of the Philippines is an eagle as well.

The eagle has been colored blue because blue is an official school color.

Ateneo de Manila University - Ateneo's Cheering Tradition

The Ateneo de Manila was rather successful in athletics even before the NCAA began. To help cheer the Ateneo squad on, the Jesuits decided that the Ateneo ought to have some sort of organization in its cheering. The Ateneo then introduced organized cheering to the country by fielding the first-ever cheering squad in the Philippines, which is now known as the Blue Babble Battalion.

The Ateneo was a proud pioneer, arguing about how the Ateneo’s brand of cheering is both unique and rooted in classical antiquity. In the 1959 Ateneo Aegis (the college yearbook), Art Borjal argues:

“It all started about 2,000 years ago along the Via Appia in Rome. The deafening cheers of Roman citizens, lined along the way, thundered in the sky as the returning victorious warriors passed by…The type of cheering that the Ateneo introduced was, in a way, quite different from that of the Romans. When the warriors came home in defeat, the citizens shouted in derision and screamed for the soldiers’ blood. To the Atenean, victory and defeat do not matter much. To cheer for a losing team that had fought fairly and well is as noble, if not nobler, than cheering for a victorious squad.”

The words of some of the cheers seem incomprehensible or derived from an exotic tongue. Loud, rapid yells of “fabilioh” and “halikinu” mean to rally the team and to intimidate and confuse the enemy gallery. Meanwhile, fighting songs help inspire the team to “roll up a victory.”

Ateneo de Manila University - Ateneo de Manila Hymn: Song for Mary

Before the Ateneo de Manila moved to Loyola Heights, the school anthem was "Hail Ateneo, Hail", a marching tune. However, with the campus' move from Padre Faura to Loyola Heights, the school hymn was changed to "Song for Mary", written by Fr. James Reuter.

The tune is adapted from Calixa Lavallée's hymn "O Canada", composed in 1880. It is commonly believed that Ateneo copied the music of Canada's national anthem. However, "O Canada" was adopted as Canada's national anthem in 1980, four decades after the Ateneo de Manila adopted "Song for Mary" as its alma mater song.

Ateneo de Manila University - Notable alumni and professors

This is a table of notable people affiliated with Ateneo de Manila University, including graduates, former students, and former professors.

This table likewise includes honorary degree holders whom the Ateneo is proud to be associated with.

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