Jose Rizal : and the University of Santo Tomas / Fidel Villaroel

Includes bibliographical references.

Note from the publisher -- Foreword by Serafin Quiazon -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. on paciano and father burgos -- II. arrival of the freshman -- III. the university: liberalism or Thomism? -- IV. the university: reforms and progress -- V. Rizal's good grades in medicine -- VI. Leonoras, Casa Tomasina and the companions of jehu -- VII. the student poet and Fr. Evaristo arias -- VIII. why did Rizal leave the university? -- IX. religious change, the Noli and family trials -- X. the university in the Fili -- XI. sons versus mother -- X. the last archbishop and the last hours of Rizal -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of names.

"This book retraces Rizal's student years step by step, year by year, and finds Rizal a normal and satisfied student, not discriminated against but in favour, as successful a medical student as the best of his classmates."