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The Thomasites, Before and After

Friday, April 18th, 2008

They were called thus not due to St. Thomas of Aquinas but because they came in a cattle cargo vessel called the “S/S Thomas”.

And they came to teach English as part of the “policy of attraction” after the 1898 Rep�blica…

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