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Chapter V

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO THOMAS 1877-1882

* MOTHER’S OPPOSITION TO HIGHER EDUCATION

After graduating with the highest honors from the Ateneo, Rizal had to go to the university of Santo Thomas in order to prepare himself for a career. Both Don Francisco and Paciano wanted that Jose should pursue higher learning. But Doña Teodora did not want him to study more. She had a premonition that too much knowledge would imperil her son’s life. If he gets to know too much, they will cut off his head.

RIZAL’S ENTER THE UNIVERSITY

* April 1877 – Rizal was nearly 16 y.o. taking Philosophy and Letters. He enrolled the course for two reasons :

a. his father liked it

b. still uncertain as to what career to follow

* FATHER PABLO RAMON – Rector of Ateneo who had been good to him during his student day

* 1878- 1879 – Rizal took up Medicine.

Reasons why he studied Medicine :

a. he wanted to be a physician so that he might cure his mother’s failing eyesight

b. Father Rector recommended him to took up medicine

* FINISHES SURVEYING COURSE IN ATENEO (1878)

He took the vocational course leading to the title PERITO AGRIMENSOR (EXPERT SURVEYOR). The surveyor title could not be granted because he was below age. He also got gold medals in agriculture and Topography.

* President of the Academy of spanish Literature

* Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences

* Secretary of Marian Congregation

* ROMANCES WITH OTHER GIRL

He was a romantic dreamer who liked to sip the “nectar of love”.

* MISS L – fair with seductive and attractive eyes.

* LEONOR VALENZUELA (orang) – almost tall as Jose himself and had a regal bearing

* LEONOR RIVERA (Taimis)– his cousin from Camiling, Tarlac. A frail beautiful girl, tender as a budding flower with kindly, wistful eyes. They became engaged.

* VICTIMS OF SPANISH OFFICER’S BRUTALITY.

One dark night, he dimly perceived the figure of a man. Not...