Rizal in Ateneo/UST

10/06/1872

Rizal takes his entrance exam for Ateneo on this day

College of San Juan de Letran

Rizal takes his entrance exam for Ateneo on this place

Early Challenges of Rizal

sickly, undersized, and late for registration, causing Fr. Magin Ferrando to initially refuse his admission.

Ateneo Student Hierarchy

• Emperor

• Tribune

• Decurion

• Centurion

• Standard-bearer

2 Divisions of Atenean Students

• Roman Empire (internos)

• Carthaginian Empire (externos)

Achievement in Ateneo during 1st year

became an Emperor in 3 months and won a prize.

Rizal study outside academics at Ateneo

studied painting under Agustin Saez and sculpture under Romualdo de Jesus

Atenean Uniform

Hemp fabric trousers

Raydadillo

stripped cotton coat

1st year (1872-1873)

took private lessons in Spanish in Sta. Isabel College

2nd year (1873-1874)

boarded in a house run by Doña Pepay in Intramuros.

Summer Vacation

predicted his mother’s release

3rd year (1874-1875)

Rizal’s mother was released from prison and he got one medal in Latin

4th year (1875-1876)

• became an interno

• “It was about time”

• “My room was about two yards square. I had an iron cot, on which my bedclothes were placed, a small table with a basin which a servant was supposed to keep filled with water, a chair, and a clothes rack. I was forgetting to mention that the small table had a drawer containing soap, comb, hairbrush, toothbrush, toothpowder, etc. I kept the little money I had - about P8 under my pillow”

Fr. Francisco Paula de Sanchez

model of uprightness, earnestness, and love for the advancement of his pupils.

Literary works

• Mi Primera Inspiracion

• After 1874, he wrote thirteen poems including Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo

• St. Eustachius, Martyr

Last year (1876-1877)

• March 23, 1877

• He graduated and was conferred the degree of Bachelor of Arts On leaving ateneo “tears paid in token of farewell to the times gone by, to a contentment that would not return, to a tranquillity of spirit that was slipping out of my grasp.”

Interest in reading

• Alexandre dumas (the count of monte cristo)

• Cesar canto (historical universal)

• E.Jagor (Reisenin den Philippines)

Sculpture works

• carved image of Virgin Mary on a piece of batikuling with his pocket knife

• carved image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sports

Gymnastics and fencing

Rizal to Blumentritt, 8th Nov. 1888

“I STILL REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 16, MY MOTHER TOLD MY FATHER: “DONT SEND HIM TO MANILA ANY LONGER; HE KNOWS ENOUGH; IF HE GETS TO KNOW ANY MORE THEY WILL CUT OF HIS HEAD.” MY FATHER DID NOT REPLY, BUT MY BROTHER TOOK ME TO MANILA DESPITE MOTHER’S TEARS.”

1877

Jose got sent back to Manila

Rizal at the UST 1877-1882

upon entering university, was not certain which course of study he wanted to pursue -inthe end, he decided to sign up for Philosophy and letters during his freshman year

Reasons why Rizal applied for Philosophy and letters

1. It was what his father would have wanted for him

2. He had fallen to seek advice of the rector of the Ateneo, Father Ramon Pablo
   

1878

finished Vocational course leading to the title of “Perito Agrimensor (expert surveyor)” and passed the final examination

November 25, 1881

granted the title as expert surveyor

Reasons why Rizal shifted to Medicine

1. Father Ramon Pablo, rector of the Ateneo, had advised him to the course

2. Rizal’s mother had failing eyesight and he thought he owed it to her to become a doctor to cure her condition

Rizal’s Performance at UST

not as excellent as his time at the Ateneo. His grades after shifting to medicine had suffered as well
•Medicine year 1 (1878-1879)
•Medicine year 2 (1879-1880)
•Medicine year 3 (1880-1881)
•Medicine year 4 (1881-1882)

Factors that affected his performance at UST

1. The Dominican professors were hostile to him

2. Filipino students suffered discrimination

3. The method of instruction at UST was obsolete and repressive.

July, 1877

Jose met Segunda in the house of his maternal grandmother in Tronzo, Manila.

Leonor Valenzuela

• Orang

• In his 2nd year, he boarded the house of dona Concha Leyva in Intramuros. The Valenzuelas were next-door neighboors. Sent her love notes written in invisible ink.

Leonor Rivera

• Cousin from Camiling, Tarlac

• Love affair by correspondence The woman who could have been mrs. Jose rizal Leonor was immortalized in Noli Me Tangere as Maria Clara
  

1879

(Antonio Rivera) at Intramuros.

Taimis

tender as a budding flower with kindly wistful eyes

Battling Racial Discrimination (1878)

• Summer vacation

• Jose became a victim of Spanish officers brutality when he failed to salute a lieutenant of the guardia civil

• Rizal reported the incident to general primo de rivera, the spanish governor general of the philippines

1880

• Jose founded Compañerismo and led Filipino students in combat against Spanish students

• Chief - Jose Rizal

• Secretary - Galicano Apacible (batangas)

Liceo Artistico-Literatio de Manila(artistic-literary lyceum)

a society of literary men and artists, where he won the first prize, composed of a feather-shaped silver pen and a diploma.

a la juventud filipina (to the filipino youth) (1879)

first great poem recognized by Spanish literary authorities

El Consejo de los Dioses (The Council of Gods)

written in 1880 by Rizal. expressed the nationalistic concept that the Filipinos (not foreigners) were the "fair hope of the Fatherland

Other Literary Works of Rizal

• Zarzuela: Junto Al Pasig (Beside the Pasig)
  

• Sonnet: A Filipinas – Filipino artist to glorify Phils

• Abd - el - Azis y Mahoma – Honor of the Ateneo’s Patroness

• Al MRP Pablo Ramon – expression of affection to Fr. Pablo Ramon, Ateneo rector