To reinforce the pittance his uncle was able to send him he earned money by tutoring, though to work one’s way through a university was not so easy nor so common at Madrid as we know it in America. He seems to have been a fairly human kind of instructor. According to a letter from one of his class in German he showed an exceedingly human impatience when his pupils failed to grasp his ideas as rapidly as he uttered them. [65] Throughout all his studies he performed better in languages, history, and belles lettres than in medicine; conclusive proof that he had not followed his own desires but made a sacrifice of them when he chose this profession. We have here his school ratings from 1878 in Manila until the time he left Madrid University; they offer material for an interesting mental clinic if one cares to undertake the exercise: SCHOLASTIC RECORDS OF JOSÉ RIZAL Studies in Medicine In Manila: First Year (1878–79) Physics—Fair Chemistry—Excellent Natural history—Fair Anatomy No. 1—Good Dissection No. 1—Good Second Year (1879–80) Anatomy No. 2—Good Dissection No. 2—Good Physiology—Good Private hygiene—Good Public hygiene—Good Third Year (1880–81) Pathology, general—Fair Therapeutics—Excellent Operation (surgery)—Good Fourth Year (1881–82) Pathology, medical—Very good Pathology, surgical—Very good Obstetrics—Very good In Madrid, Spain: Fifth Year (1882–83) Medical clinics No. 1—Good Surgical clinics No. 1—Good Obstetrical clinics—Fair Legal medicine or medical law—Excellent Sixth Year (1883–84) Medical clinics No. 2—Good Surgical clinics No. 2—Very good He became licentiate in medicine on June 21, 1884, with the rating “fair” (aprobado) (degree granted June 1, 1887). He obtained the doctor’s degree (1884–85): History of the medical science—Fair Chemical analysis—Good Histology, normal—Excellent Studies in Philosophy and Letters In Manila, March 14, 1877, he obtained the bachelor’s degree with the rating “excellent” In Madrid, 1882–83: Universal history—Very good General literature—Excellent 1883–84 Universal history No. 2—Excellent Greek and Latin literature—Excellent with a prize Greek No. 1—Excellent with a prize 1884–85 Spanish literature—Excellent with free scholarship Arabic language—Excellent with free scholarship Greek No. 2—Excellent History of Spain—Good Hebrew—Excellent Cosmology, metaphysics, theodicy, and history of philosophy were studied by him in Manila and finished in July, 1877, and March, 1878, with rating “excellent” Licentiate in philosophy and letters, June 19, 1885, “excellent.”