Article Nº 0307 Association, club or society Vol. I · p. 183
Funchal Students’ Association
Original title: Associação Académica do Funchal
Defunct student society inaugurated in 1884 at the São Lourenço Palace, whose organ was the newspaper O Académico.
This defunct student society was inaugurated on 1 December 1884 in one of the rooms of the São Lourenço Palace (‘St Lawrence’), with a speech on the occasion by the late Marcelino Ribeiro de Mendonça, then a pupil at the Funchal lyceum (state secondary school). The newspaper O Académico (‘The Student’) was the society’s organ.
People mentioned
- Marceliano Ribeiro de Mendonça 1805–1866
Places mentioned