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Title: The National University of La Plata, report relative to its foundation
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: González, Joaquín Víctor, 1863-1923 Argentina. Justicia e Instrucción Pública, Ministerio de. Biblioteca Tecnica
Subjects: La Plata, Universidad Nacional de
Publisher: Buenos Aires, Graphics Wks. of the Nat. Penitenciary
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n, and to requiere higher vita-lity, owing doubtless to two principal reasons,the want of sufficient organic elements, whichon one hand is explicable, as it is an institu-tion that commences, and its want of connec-tion with the rest of the scholastic life of thisRepublic, which prevents its ample development,and its superiority due to its great utility andto the extension of its studies. However, I donot consider that we have in this country eit-her sufficient space or a convenient sphere fora third University of the same type as the clas-sic Universities of Buenos Ayres and of Cor-doba, and consequently I think that a thirdUniversity of a modern and experimental type,with a different plan of organisation, character,and programme of studies with an internalorganization and with special and practical di-rection of its different departments, such wouldnot only find an easy place but would alsorespond to an evident want felt by the diffe-rent classes of society in this country, and more
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fe fe OF LA PLATA 71 in particular such as look to our general pros-perity from an economical and scientific pointof view rather from the sole literary point ofview, which latter has been studied with prefe-rence by Argentine educator establishmentssince the time of the first colonial institutions. I think I have well understood the national«University Problem» in its most fundamentalaspects, with the idea of establishing in LaPlata a third Institute for higher studies, withscientific and practical elements combinedamong themselves, and in such a manner as toattract by strong current or sympathy andspontaneous vocation all the tendencies thatto-day are dominating in this country, towardsthe careers most useful for an independentexistence and towards personal prosperity, whichwith few exceptions cannot be obtained to-dayin the existing schools, as most all of them arededicated to abstract speculations, to decorati-ve diplomas and are destined in general to thepreparation of the teachnationalunivers00gonz

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