· Finished 1st year course , Philosophy & Letters (1877-78)
Transfered to Medicine, administered by Diminicans
· AB (during Sp times) equivalent to High School and Junior College today
Merely qualified graduate to enter university
· Don Francisco and Paciano like Rizal to continue in studying while his mother decline
· April 1877 @ 16 y/o, UST
Enrolled Philosophy & Letters because:
1. His father like it
2. Still uncertain as to what career
· Enrolled Medicine (1878-79):
1. Advised by Fr Pablo Ramon, Rector of the Ateneo
2. To cure his mother's growing blindness
· "Perito agrimensor" Expert surveyor as vocational course (1877-78)
17 y/o, passed final exam
· Extracurricular @ ADMU
Pres @ Academy of Sp Lit
Sec @ Academy of NatSci
Sec @ Marian Congregation
· Other Girls
"Miss L" of Calamba, but changed heart:
1. Memory of Segunda was still fresh
2. His father didn't like the fam
· 2nd Romance
Leonor Valenzuela "Orang" from Pagsanjan, Laguna
2nd year boared @ house of Dona Concha Leyua in Intramuros
Capt Juan & Sanday Valenzuela
Sent love notes in invisible ink
· 3rd Romance
Leonor "Taimis" Rivera, cousin in Camiling
3rd year, lived @ Casa Tomasina, No. 6 Calle Sto Tomas, Intramuros
· Victim of Sp Officer
1st year Med student
Whipped and brutally slashed for not saluting / saying a courteous
Reported to Gen Primo de Rivera, but nothing came out because he's an Indio
· "Liceo Artistico-Literario" Artistic-Literacy Lyceum of Manila
Contest 1: Best Poem by Native / Mestizo
18 y/o, "A La Juventud Filipina" To the Filipino Youth
1st prize: silver pen, feather-shaped, decorated with gold ribbon
[beseeched the Fil youth to rise from lethargy]
Won by Rizal:
1.1st great poem in Sp written by a Fil
2.Expressed first time the nationalist concept that of Fil
Contest 2: To Commemorate the 4th Contennial Death of Cervantes
Open both Fil & Sp
Allegorical drama, "El Consejo de los Dioses" The Council of the Gods
1st prize: gold ring, engraved the burst of Cervantes
Won by Rizal: literary superiorty over others
· "Companerismo" Comradeship, 1880 a secret society for Fil students
Mems called, "Companions of Jehu"
"Indio, chongos!" vs "Kastila,bangus!"
Founder, Rizal with Sec Galicano Apacible, cousin from Batangas
· Unhappy @ UST:
1. Dominican professor were hostile to him
2. Fil students racially discriminated against Sp
3. Method of instruction was obsolete & repressive
· Rizal decided to study in Spain.
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