Original scientific paper
The Croatian Academic Support Society (1894-1914)
Tihana Luetić
; Department of Historical Research of IHSS of CASA, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The “Croatian Academic Support Society” (CASS) was the greatest society of a humanitarian character within the University of Zagreb in the period from the foundation of the modern university to the beginning of World War I (1914). It was founded in 1894 by a fusion of the humanitarian societies existing at the university at that time. It supported its student members with food, money and clothes, and also by covering the expenses of hospital treatment. Based on the records from the Archive of the Rector’s Office of the University of Zagreb, the State Archive of Croatia, and contemporary student publications, the author tries to reconstruct the activity of the society. She concludes that the society regularly functioned with financial difficulties, and that the amounts of support given by it were modest, at least according to students’ commentaries, but that its influence within the student population and the reception that it had in public were considerable. On the one hand, the CASS presented a political forum for student youth, which did not have formal possibilities of association on the grounds of political allegiances, and on the other, attendance by the urban elite at parties organised by the society, and the echo that political struggles within the society had in public, testify to its importance as an institution in Zagreb at the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Keywords
academic society; humanitarian society; University of Zagreb; students; social history; the nineteenth century; the twentieth century
Hrčak ID:
75857
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2011.
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