The UBA Medical Student Center and the American Student League Project - 1910

Abstract

In the years prior to 1918, several projects and student actions were aimed at achieving a set of objectives that, at the beginning in a more dispersed manner and later in an orderly

one, were strongly demanded in the months leading to the critical events in Cordoba and became themselves the center and axis of what was to be called the University Reform.

The first materialization of these regional organizational attempts was the Student Congresses, the first of which was held in Montevideo in 1908. There arose the project of creating a permanent-base Latin American Students League which could consolidate the specific results achieved by the congresses, the latter´s frequency being originally envisioned as biennial.

The second congress, held in 1910, had its venue in Buenos Aires and FUBA (Federation of the University of Buenos Aires) had an outstanding role in its organization. All of their Centers collaborated positively and to varying degrees. In this activity, as well as in others led by the general reformist project, the Medical Student Center of UBA stood out.

In the first part of the work, the task of disseminating and promoting the League's proposal is presented, from within FUBA itself, and the proposal is analyzed. In the second, the project´s strengths and weaknesses are considered, aiming at visualizing some of the causes of its failure, despite the success of the host congress.