VETERINARIAN COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Veterinarian College at the
University of Zagreb
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27 February 1953
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN TrIS REPORT ARE DEVINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL Of CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Colic ;e at Za;-_reb University.
is a
report containing information on the location,
organization., staff, curriculum, student associations, etc. of the Veterinan
Enclosures: 10 pages as described above; 1 sketch
State
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A) POLITICAL INFORMATION
Jun 52 University - veter-nary school of
b) Location
A St - 300 m S of the grade crossing
- to the left ~e r- k e ea g from the
.tdt in the old- k on SAVSKA St.
The clinic is gourd
7~rns?-s~arS t cku..s4er~?,}icfbe .
c)' ( 'of bldgs already gtniskmi before the war
not yet completed.
The plan of the various bldgs is shown on attachment
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Around the new university ,,1q are located wooden
are
barrgaks, and yet there/ample possibilities for
enlargement.
d) Dependency.
From the Council on Education and_ ~Cuulture of the
Croatian People's Republic of ZAGOR& -
(SAVJET ZA NAVKU I KULTURU NRH ZABREB).
Staff
*i4 of-instructors .r competent and capable
The university does not have MMrector at its
but a Dean
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The teaching staff is divided as follows:
- instructors on the permanent staff
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-teachers on pso bation for vacant positions
Bach instructor has one or more assistents?
List of instructors.
Dean in charge :
- PID VARIKAK,TEODORO
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Instructor of h? tology -
Botany: PP HORVAT. IVO -
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anatomy: Instructor SAKAR -
will be repleed
by PHD CILIGA TOMISLAO -
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Rjosian lance g
- Instructor CEKOF -
German language: (from 1949) - the same.
P* DJURIC -
i:icrobiology: Instructor 1 LINAC
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Parasitology: PHD BABIC IVO - former Minister
Instructor IAIKACIC DAVOR -
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Anatomick pathology: Instructor MARTINCIC MI0 -
Physiolog tl patholo - Instructor KRVAVICA
Pharmacology: Instructor DELAK -
Ti, ,rn J, t 77 : Instructor SUTLIC -
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Bee and S%Ne,,i Pathology and Fish Pathology: P D TOMASEC -
nnternal Pathology of Carnivorous Animals: Instructor TOI4ASEVIC
Internal Pathology of Herbivorous Animals: Instructor SLEZIC -
Physical therapy: Instructor
RAPIC A Communist
military training:
First year: Captain PREDGROVIC~ lst class.
Second year: Major POLJSAG
Third year: A major
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f) xamination period.
- 3 during the scholastic year and more specifically:
- in October
- in February
- in July.
Each school year is divided into two semesters. (dealt with
more particularly in the following I ragraph).
Courses can be:
- Optional in the sense that the pertinent examination is
sufficient aid may be given and passed before discussion
of the thesis;
- obligatory in the sense that the pertinent examination ix
c must be taken:
- either during the second session of the school year;
-or during a specified semester.
g) Course of S+udy
Lst Year Botany
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Anatomy (bi-annual)
Military training
Russian (substituted by German in 1949)
All exams are obligatory and all must be passed (except Russian)
to be admitted to the 2d yr.
2d Year: Anatomy (bi-annual)
Histology
Physiology
Micro~logy Parasitology t CUP% MOL
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Military Training
Al]. exams must be passed to be admitted to the 3d yr. with the
following exceptions:
-Microbiology, the exam of which can be taken in the 5th semester;
-Parasitology, the exam of which can be taken in the 7th semester.
3d Year: Parasitology
Anatomical pathology
Physiological pathology
Pharmacology
Internal Propaedeutics
Pathology on bees and
Fish pathology
Military training
In order to be admitted to the 4th yr, the following exams must be
passed:
- Parasitology
-Anatomical pathology
- Physiological pathology
- Military Training
The other exams may be passed
at any time before the doctorate thesis.
4th year internal pathology
Genetics (STOCARSTVO)
Physical therapy
X Ray therapy
Gynecology (PORODIL3TVO)
Attendance is required for all subjects which is checked from time to
time by rollcall
h) Program developed during Military Training lessofs.
Even though the military training courses are obligatory, they are
taken with very little interest.
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There were 2-hout lessons every 2 weeks.
Within the military trainigg was a part which more properly
speaking could be called :iilitary History with exams on the
last 2 World wars.
It is understandable that veterinary students (most of them sons
e..ls-ss
of farmers) are not a aabgpW that can follow with interest
lessons of this type.
Note-taking was prohibited during these lessons.
.;ynopsjywere not drawn up.
At the university library there were available to the students
books on military history and regulations of the I`izgaalav AUmmd Forces
that could be consulted.
Said books and regulations can be taken home,with the smo _ ?trr"iss'eh
of the instructor, for study purposes.
The books in question were not sold in the book store and were
hot found on the open market.
lst Year:
-1 Hauser rifle and Soviet PPSh submachinegun (practice weapons).
Concepts of ballistics. World ',1ar II with particular regard to
Yugoslavia. Partisan Army.
-2,d Year.
Reading of Topographic map: - conventional signs for reporting
on maps relative to tactical situations.
The examination consisted in the interpretation of a tactical
situation designated on the blackboard.
i) Number of students.
-800 students d dad by th- P--S-~r ^'r~ ? About 3 % of the se
were women.
1) Description of the university. SECRET CONTROE
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sketch of attachment #1
connected to eachother
by e~c^ n~ G?rr^?n~?cLu an enclosis~4_ 1-1,
an-area of 250 x 200 M.
1. -story bldg (including the ground floor)
Roof of corrugated sheets of eternit. Plastered walls of dirty
yellow color.
Dimensions: 70 x 20 m
Located here are:
-Offices of the Dean
-Secretary's office and all other offices
-Library
-Auditorium
This is characterized by large gates at the top of 4 steps
and flanked by 2 columns.
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Bldgs adds like the one described in number 1.
3.
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Located here are:
- Study halls
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- miscellaneous laboratories.
Bldgs just like the one described in #1
5.
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eind completed.
',lolls and roof are finished.
They still lack the interior equipment and finishing.
They are to be completed in 1952.
'Jill be used for study halls and laboratories.
6. An ampitheater for anatomy courses still unfinished.
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New buildings are to be built to house under one roof the Clinic
~.;hich is now located on ffift Savska Street.
n. Government aid =
A student taay have up to 1500 dinars subsidy per month.
to the Council on Education and Culture
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- statement of income
- family financial %tatus..'
- re istration in the University Youth Organization.
Up to 1951, subsidy was easy to obtain. After that date,
students had to renew their requests and the subsidies were
granted to fewer students.
The students were able to use the various mess-halls located
at the state-operated restaurants of Zagreb at the rate cf
nthly.
2700 dinars m
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T"e food, ? ~nn scarce and poor, was improved
greatly in the last months of 1951 and in 1952.
o. Political tendencies of the staff and students.
The teaching staff was generally in support of the present regime.
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teachers never discussed politics with
students.
There was much distrust among the students and they did not ex ress
opinions on poli.t.ical questions, especially since a student was
expelled for having, openly criticized the ,.cork of the Government.
In general, however, the major part of the50X1-HUM
students are against the preseritt~f' Yugoslavia.
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there is no truth in statements to the 50X1-HUM
effect that in other schools the same think is happening , inasmnich
as Jdanmxim it is to be noted that in the veterinary school almost
all students come from the country and are sons of peasants or
landowners whose l a n d has been mmukif confiscated.
W this is the category which today in Yugoslavia yhlo is not
only Gaorse off than all others but leads a more miserable life
than before while the workin, classes have obtained great advantages
much
pay is still insufficient.
a dtter off than before, even if the p,
of students
University Youth Organization
initials : S .S .J . ( SAVJET STUDENATA JUGOSLA''JIJE) . Exists
$ide by side with the University organization itself, and it
is h~.avily supported by the government.
It has a purely Communist character, veiled with a mask of
nationalism.
From 1951, registration was no longer compulsory, but the majority
following advantages:
registered because it had the
trip yearly (92% discount ram on railroad
fares)
- free medical aids
-the possibility of obtaining a room at reduced prices(400
diners pejmonth in new houses for students recently built
in ZAGREB.
- favors studies because one who is `'ot a member is looked at
unfavorably.
- membership is a necessary condition for receiving governmental
subsidies
Membership costs 10 dinars per month. SECRET CONTROL
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Lectures and meetings of political character
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UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, VETLRDIARY SCHOOL
1) Dean's office, offices of the secretary, library, auditorium
2) 3) Study halls and laboratories
4) 5) Bldgsin the course of completion
6) Amphitheatre for study of anatomy
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