The National University of La Plata, report relative to its foundation . Colle-ge of La Plata shall be, whose ample buildingwill soon be commenced, it now correspondsto define its scholastic personality, and its par-tial function in the universitary organisationthat I am describing. It can be understood thatthis being a National College, of the type com-mon in the Republic for medium instruction,it cannot be much different from its fellows,because that would cause it to lose its charac-ter as «National», such as tradition and gene-ral Argentine interpretation has lent it; and asit should be, t
The National University of La Plata, report relative to its foundation . Colle-ge of La Plata shall be, whose ample buildingwill soon be commenced, it now correspondsto define its scholastic personality, and its par-tial function in the universitary organisationthat I am describing. It can be understood thatthis being a National College, of the type com-mon in the Republic for medium instruction,it cannot be much different from its fellows,because that would cause it to lose its charac-ter as «National», such as tradition and gene-ral Argentine interpretation has lent it; and asit should be, to a great extent, in the prepa-ratory grade, a collection of higher gradeswhen this transitory mode should be accentua-ted in it. Therefrom results a forced necessity of con-ciliation between both systems, that is, that wi-thout losing its character as a College for tea-ching and general education, with the socialand political ends attributed to the words ofthe Constitution (art. 67, par. 16) ordaining its National College of La Plata Building for chemistry-physics. TRANSVERSAL CUT OF LA PLATA 131 studies so that they lead, ostensibly or virtuallyto the diverse Faculties. It occurs to me, that the task is not so dif-ficult as it appears at the first glance; I havea complete idea of these gradual relations re-lative to the Institutions that cultivate and trans-mit them, and within the limits imposed by thatconstitutional precept. According to them, the colleges, schools, orinstitutes, where they offer medium instruction,cannot lose their character as teachers os ins-tructors of a type of «national» culture, suffi-cient for the common objects of civilised life,to permit the successfull selection of special ul-terior vocations, and in any case, to fit man,in the double sense, for his social and domes-tic destinies. As the Constitution attributes to Congressthe power to dictate the plans of Universitaryteaching, without specifying that such shouldbe dictated wiht uniformity of
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