In 1925, the St. Vincent Ferrer as a Seminario-Colegios was a distortion of the Tridentine institution. The Colegio drained the strength and vigor of the Seminario. The constant contact of the seminarians with outsiders, and living together under the same roof of Seminarians and lay students proved more harmful than beneficial to the seminary. As the number of the "Colegiales" grew by the year, so the number of Seminarians decreased. Fr. Eliseo Rodriguez, C.M. who has been connected with the Seminary since 1911 has this to say; that from 1911 to 1925 the Jaro Seminary had a population of 30 to 40 seminarians and some five to six hundred "colegiales."