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Rizal University of Santo Tomas (1877-1882)

Rizal attended the University of Santo Tomas from 1877-1882, first taking Philosophy and Letters before transferring to Medicine. He faced unhappiness there due to hostility from Dominican professors, racial discrimination against Filipino students by Spaniards, and obsolete, repressive instruction methods. Rizal also studied at Ateneo de Manila concurrently, taking a surveying course and excelling in subjects like agriculture and topography. He wrote several acclaimed poems and literary works during this time that expressed early signs of nationalism.

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Rizal University of Santo Tomas (1877-1882)

Rizal attended the University of Santo Tomas from 1877-1882, first taking Philosophy and Letters before transferring to Medicine. He faced unhappiness there due to hostility from Dominican professors, racial discrimination against Filipino students by Spaniards, and obsolete, repressive instruction methods. Rizal also studied at Ateneo de Manila concurrently, taking a surveying course and excelling in subjects like agriculture and topography. He wrote several acclaimed poems and literary works during this time that expressed early signs of nationalism.

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RIZAL

UNIVERSITY OF
SANTO TOMAS
(1877-1882)
After finishing the first year of a Course in
Philosophy and Letters (1877-1878),Rizal
Transferred to the Medical course.
Doña Teodora Vigorously opposed the idea that
Rizal pursue higher learning in the university.
She said,” Don’t send him to Manila again. He
Knows enough. if he gets more, the
Spaniards will cut off his head”
April 1877
-Rizal who was then nearly 16 years old,
Matriculated in the University of Santo Tomas,
Taking the course of Philosophy and letters because
of the following:

1.His father like it:


2.He was “still uncertain as to what career to pursue”
Father Pablo Ramon
-Rector of Ateneo, who had been good to him
during his student days in that College, asking

For advice on the choice of career but unfortunately


he was in Mindanao.
During the following term(1878-1879)that Rizal
Having received that Ateneo Rector’s, he was advice
to study medicine.
During Rizal’s first school term in the university of
Santo Tomas (1878-1879),Rizal also studied in
Ateneo. he took the vocational course leading to
The title of perito agrimensor (expert surveyor)
Rizal excelled in all subjects in the surveying course
in Ateneo, obtaining gold meals in agriculture and
topography.

November 25, 1881


-the title was issued to Rizal for passing the final
examination in the surveying course.
Liceo Artistic –Literario
(Artistic-literary lyceum)of Manila

-a society of literary men and artists, held a literary


contest in the year 1879.
ALa Juventud Filipina (To the Filipino Youth)
-an inspiring poem of flawless form submitted by
Jose Rizal when he was 18 years old.
Two reasons ALa Juventud Filipina
(To the Filipino Youth)Poem is a classic
in Philippine Literature:

1.It was the great poem in Spanish written by a


Filipino, whose merit was recognized by Spanish
Literary authorities.

2.It expressed for the first time the nationalistic


concept that the Filipinos, and not the foreigners,
were the “Fair Hope of the fatherland”
Silver pen, feather-shape and decorated with a gold
ribbon

-The first prize given by the board of judges which is


composed of Spanish they were impressed by Rizal’s
poem.
El Consejo De los Dioses
(The Councils of the Gods)
-an allegorical drama written by Rizal which he in the
literary contest of Artistic-Literary Lyceum in 1880
to commemorate the fourth centennial of the death of
Cervantes.
-was a literary masterpiece based on the Greek
classics.
Junto Al Pasig(Beside the Pasig)
-a zarzuela which was staged by the Ateneans on
December 8 1880,on the occasions of the annual
celebration of the feats day of the Immaculate
Conceptions Patroness of the Ateneo.
-Rizal wrote it as President of the Academy of
Spanish Literature in Ateneo .
A Filipinas
-a sonnet written by Rizal for the album of the
Society of Sculptures.

-in this sonnet, he urged all Filipino artist to glorify


the Philippines.
Abd-el-Azis y Mahoma
-Rizal composed a poem in 1879 which was
declaimed by an Ateneans, Manuel Fernandez, on the
night of December 8 ,1879, in honor of the Ateneao’s
Patroness.
AIM.R.P. Pablo Ramon
-Rizal composed a poem in 1881, as an expression’s
of affections to Father Pablo Ramon, the Ateneo
rectors, who had been so kind and helpful to him.
Vicenta Ybardolaza
-a Pretty girl Colegiala who skillfully the harp at the
Regalado home, Rizal was infatuated in Pakil .
Compañerismo(Comradeship)
-Rizal founded a society of Filipino students in
University of Santo Tomas in 1880.
Companions of Jehu
-members f the society whose after the valiant
Hebrew General.
Galicano Apacible
-Rizal’s cousins from Batangas who is the secretary
of the society.
UNHAPPY DAYS AT THE
UNIVERSITY
OF
SANTO TOMAS
At the university of Santo Tomas, Rizal was unhappy
at this Dominican Institution of higher learning
because:
1. The Dominican professor were hostile to him.
2. The Filipino students were racial discriminated
against by the Spaniards .
3. The Method of instruction was obsolete and
repressive.
THANKYOU

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