Jose Rizal- Life, Works, and Writings of a Genius, Writer, Scientist, and National Hero

Medical Studies at theUniversity of Santo Tomas

(1877-1882)

Prepared by: GANCERO, PAULA ANDREA

CHAPTER 5

(1877- 1878)

• Vocational course in Surveying

Ateneo de Manila

University of Santo Tomas(1878- 1882)

• Transferred to the Medical course

Mother’s Oppositionto Higher Education

• Doña Teodora was aware what might would happen to Jose

Mother’s Oppositionto Higher Education

• Don Francisco told Paciano to accompany Jose to Manila

Rizal enters the University(April 1877)

• Philosophy and Letters

• His father liked it• He is still uncertain

Rizal enters the University(1877-1878)

• Cosmology, Metaphysics, Theodicy, and History of Philosophy

• Waiting for Father Ramon

Rizal enters the University(1878-1879)

• Received the Rector’s advice to pursue Medicine

• To cure his mother’s growing blindness

(1878)• Perito Agrimensor (Expert Surveyor)

Finishes Surveying Coursein Ateneo

• Agriculture andTopography (gold medals)

(1878; November 25, 1881)• Have passed the final exam but could not grant the title


(1878)• Academy of Spanish Literature (President)• Academy of Natural Sciences (Secretary)


(1878)• Marian Congregation (Secretary)


Romances With Other Girls

• Segunda Katigbak (firstlove)

• Miss L (“fair with seductiveand attractive eyes”)

Segunda Katigbak


• Leonor “Orang “ Valenzuela (tall girl with a Regal Bearing; receives letters; Med student from C.L)

(Cpt. Juan and Cptna. Sanday;Doña Concha, Intramuros)

Leonor “Orang “ Valenzuela


• Leonor Rivera (frail , pretty girl; cousin form Camiling; La ConcordiaCollege; Taimis; 1867)

(1879)

(Antonio Rivera; Casa Tomasina)

Victim of Spanish Officer’sBrutality

(1878)• With a snarl, Rizal whipped with sword and slashed his back due to the dim surrounding he had walked through


• Reported the incident to Gen. Primo de Rivera (Spanish Gov. Gen., Phil.)• Indio to Spaniard

(March 21, 1887)• “I went to the Captain-General but I could not obtain justice; my wound lasted two weeks”


To Ferdinand Blumentritt

Ferdinand Blumentritt

“To The Filipino Youth”(1879)

• Liceco Artistico-Literario (Artistic-Literary Lyceum) of Manila• Society of Literary Men and Artists


• Offered prize for the best poem (Native or Mestizo)• A La Juventud Filipina (To The Filipino Youth)


• Spaniard board of judges was impressed


• Rizal beseeched the Filipino youth to rise from lethargy, to let their genius

fly swifter than the wind and descend with art and sciences to break the chains that have long bound the spirit of people


• As Classic Philippine Lit.• First great poem in Spanish written

by a Filipino• Expressed the nationalistic concept that the Filipinos are “fair hope of the Fatherland”

“The Council of the Gods”(1880)

• Artistic-Literary Lyceum for Cervantes’ fourth centennial


• Cervantes author of Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


• Priests, Newspapermen, Scholars and Professors

• Rizal, entered literary joust• EL Consejo de los Dioses (allegorical

drama)


• Rizal received the first prize


• D.N. del Puzo, Spanish, won the second prize


• Rizal was particularly happy, for he proved the fallacy of the alleged Spanish superiority over the Filipinos and revealed could be discrete against all races


• Was literary masterpiece (Greek Classics)

Other Literary Works(December 8, 1880)

• Junto al Pasig (Beside the Pasig) a zarzuela

• Performed by the Ateneans on the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception• as President of the Academy Spanish Literature

in the Ateneo

Other Literary Works(December 8, 1880)

• Was mediocre but some passage expresses subtle satire

“Now without comfort,Sadly groans in the power of a foreign people,And slowly diesIn the impious clutch of Spain.”

-Satan describes Philippines

Other Literary Works(1880)

• A Filipinas (Society of Sculptors, Sonnet) urged all Filipino artists to glorify the Philippines


• Abd-el-Azis y Mahoma a poem in honor of the Ateneo’s Patroness and was declaimed Manuel Fernandez, on the night of December 8


• Al M.R.P. Pablo Ramon a poem as a expression of affection to the Ateneo Rector

Rizal’s Visit to Pakiland Pagsanjan

(May, 1881)• Went on Pilgrimage, the

famous shrine of the Birhen Maria de los Dolores with his sisters ̶ Saturnina, Maria and Trinidad and female friends

Inside the Pakil Church


(May, 1881)• They took casco (flat-bottom sailing

vessel) from Calamba to Pakil, Laguna and stayed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Regalado, whose son Nicolas was Rizal’s friend in Manila

Casco


(May, 1881)• They were fascinated with

the famous Turumba in honor of Birhen Maria de los Dolores

Birhen Maria de los Dolores

“Turumba, Turumba, MariangaMatuwa tayo’t masayaSumayaw ng turumbaPuri sa Birhen Maria”


(May, 1881)• Rizal was infatuated by

Vicenta Ybardolaza, who skilfully played the harp at the Regalado home


(May, 1881)• Rizal and his party made a

side trip to Pagsanjan because;• It was Leonora Velenzuela’s native town, and• To see the world famed Pagsanjan falls

Leonor “Orang “ Valenzuela

Pagsanjan Falls

Champion of Filipino Students• Rizal was the champion of the Filipino

students in their fights against the arrogant Spanish students.

• In 1880, Rizal founded a secret society of Filipino students in the University of Santo Tomas called “Compaňerismo”(Comradeship), whose members were called “Companions of Jehu,” after the valiant Hebrew general who fought the Armaeans.

•

Champion of Filipino Students• Galicano Apacible (Rizal’s cousin from

Batangas) was the Secretary.• Fierce encounter near the Escolta in

Manila where Rizal was wounded on the head, and tenderly washed and dressed by Leonor Rivera in his boarding house “Casa Tomasina”.

Unhappy Days in the UST• The Dominican were hostile to him• The Filipino students were racially

discriminated by the Spaniards• The method of instruction was obsolete

and repressive

• Rizal, the most brilliant graduate of Ateneo failed to win high scholastic grade

Rizal’s Scholastic Recordsin the UST

(1879-1882)• 1877 - 1878 (Philosophy & Letters)

Cosmology & Metaphysics … ExcellentTheodicy … ExcellentHistory of Philosophy … Excellent

• 1878 - 1879 (Medicine) –1st Year Physics … Fair

Chemistry … ExcellentNatural History … GoodAnatomy I … GoodDissection I … Good

• 1879 - 1880 (Medicine) –2nd YearAnatomy 2 … GoodDissection 2 … GoodPhysiology … GoodPrivate Hygiene … GoodPublic Hygiene … Good

• 1880 - 1881 (Medicine) –3rd YearGeneral Pathology … FairTherapeutics … ExcellentSurgery … Good

• 1881 – 1882 (Medicine) –4th YearMedical Pathology … Very GoodSurgical Pathology … Very GoodObstetrics … Very Good

Unhappy Days in the UST

• Rizal decided to study in Spain, he could no longer endure the rampant bigotry, discrimination and hostility in the UST

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03/23/2017