National College of Buenos Aires

The National College of Buenos Aires (CNBA) is an Argentine public pre-university college in the city of Buenos Aires, dependent on the University of Buenos Aires. It grants the secondary bachelor's degree, and for those who are in the 6th year, it has equivalencies with the Common Basic Cycle of the UBA.

It has an entrance course that lasts one year, after which around 500 students enter divided into three shifts: morning, afternoon and evening, with 25% dropping out over the five years of study. For example, it has an observatory, microcinema and swimming pool, huge laboratories inside the building, a sports field in Puerto Madero where a wide variety of sports are carried out, and extracurricular activities such as sailing. Its graduates stand out in the statistics of university careers and Olympics, and there is a long list of renowned alumni. The list of graduates is available on a website maintained by the institution.

It is the oldest secondary educational establishment in the city of Buenos Aires, founded by the first Jesuits from the colonies, in agreement with the Spanish administration as Colegio de San Ignacio, after these were expelled it was knowing, in line with the successive political regimes, many changes of ideological orientation, closures, re-foundations and changes of denomination; and some architectural vicissitudes, among which is the demolition of the colonial building and the construction of the current building, which has not unleashed, in the eyes of Argentines, the permanence of this institution that works in its search for excellence as a seedbed of illustrious personalities, and who was partly responsible for the fact that the block where it is located was called "The Apple of Lights" in 1821. In 2013 it celebrated its 150th anniversary with the current name.

Since 1943 the site of the College has been a historical monument.^{[citation required]}

Location

It is headquartered at Calle Bolívar 263, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. It is one of the buildings of the traditional Manzana de las Luces, just 50 meters from the Plaza de Mayo, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat, it is located in the microcenter of the city, forming part of the urban military area.

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One of the distinctive characteristics of the College is its admission course, which raises many conflicting voices: in the period in which there was no admission, 40% dropped out in the middle of the first year. «The modality of admission has It has been changing”, recounted the former rector Horacio Sanguinetti, “during the Perón government, instead of taking the exam, you had to present a guarantee from the CGT, and in times of the Process you had to meet a family profile: the parents and children would come hand in hand, prolix, and the boys would be asked who their best friend was —who must be their father— and things like that. There were also moments of great accommodation. For this reason, the parents now sign a paper, which says that if they try to request something using influence, the request will be published. And I do!" -recalled the rector. The eight-month entrance course is taken parallel to the seventh grade of primary school, on Saturdays, and throughout the year the Mathematics, Spanish, History and Geography exams are taken. «Everything is anonymous and we handle ourselves with codes and sealed envelopes. The exams are printed here and the boys don't take their teacher. They are not even evaluated twice by the same teacher», assured Gustavo Zorzoli, who at the time of the interview was admission coordinator for Buenos Aires and Pellegrini. 60% of the entrants seek support classes in academies, 20% leaves before finishing the entrance course. A little more than 400 students enter, drawn in 3 shifts (morning, afternoon and night). Despite the strictness of the entrance course, throughout the 5 years of completion there is a dropout to other less demanding schools of around 50%.

The College has its own sports field in Puerto Madero and an Olympic-sized swimming pool inside the campus, as well as an astronomical observatory, a microcinema, a top floor conditioned as a multipurpose room, and many classrooms and offices designed to be specialized in their subject, such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Plastic Arts, Music and even Ceramics. Its numerous and varied extracurricular activities are recognized, among which are tango classes, choir, ensembles, ceramics, astronomy, sailing, etc. The renowned library is the fourth largest in the city of Buenos Aires.

The degree at the end of the fifth year is a bachelor's degree, its curriculum nuances Humanities and Sciences, trying to be a synthesis of tradition -for many represented by Latin- and modernity. Sixth year is optional and grants a bachelor's degree with orientation, 4 of its subjects are equivalent to those of the Common Basic Cycle of the UBA, a fifth subject is mandatory to obtain the degree and is not equivalent to any CBC subject, and 2 more (Society and State and Scientific Thought) are not required for the title but to complete the CBC and can be taken either at the establishment or at another CBC location. The CBC is the first year to enter a degree at the University of Buenos Aires, the sixth year has no equivalences with the first year of other Argentine universities.

Its success as a high school is credited not only to the academic achievements and statistics of its graduates' passage through universities, but also because each generation offers a long list of people of public interest in practically all occupational areas, especially politics.

Extracurricular Traditions and Community

In addition to the extracurricular activities offered under a counter-shift workshop model (tango, ensembles, sailing, pottery, etc.), its rich social life includes soccer tournaments for students and alumni that are played every weekends at the Campo de Deportes in Puerto Madero and different literary contests, essays and plastic works, such as the short story contests "Gloria Kehoe Wilson" 1993, "Franca Jarach" 2013, "Marco Denevi" 2014 and 2015, and the plastic arts contest that takes place every year.

Some of his students receive preparation to compete in world Olympics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, among other subjects; and it is characteristic that they return from them with medals annually (as from the last International Chemistry Olympiad in Baku 2015).

Of the traditions devised by the students themselves, we can mention magazines, audiovisual projects, parties, cultural festivals organized by the Culture Commission of the student union, musical bands and CenbaRock (the musical festival), and the traditional end of the year celebration known as "Paintada", successor to the infamous "Olympic Tour", in which towards the end of the year on a day previously agreed with the authorities of the School the students to About to graduate, they carry out a "painting war" while they walk peacefully, like every year, the block of the College.

Since 2014, the College is one of the entities participating in the Night of the Museums.

Perceived as a cultural and educational icon

Brandariz (2013) describes the role of the Nacional Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires society in this way: «The National College of Buenos Aires is a large, powerful, very independent, frequently rebellious, indomitable and creative institution». Its pedagogical proposal strives to promote the student's ability to relate different subjects and their perception as an active protagonist of their own learning. Amadeo Jacques, the main person in charge of the current pedagogical structure, said: «Open all perspectives to the spirit and discover all the horizons, exercise observation and encourage sagacity in experience, as well as habituate calculation and give the secret of its scope; to accustom the intelligence to go back to the first principles of things, to go down to the last consequences of the principles; mixing theory with the practice that fertilizes it; and to illustrate practice by theory, without which practice is a brute and blind routine."

The current building

Central clause

The predominant style of the new building built in 1910-1938 is the French academicism of the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts in a monumental version given by the scale of the columns and the entrance arches on the main front, standing out the roof to the mansard, the imposing facades and gallery covered in imitation Paris stone and marble staircase surrounded by busts of former rectors, and the spacious cloisters with high ceilings inside. The plan is completely symmetrical, despite being a piece of land with two dividing walls and only two direct fronts facing the street, which forced the architect Maillart to create internal patios of air and light where the cloisters on the north and west sides ventilated.

Aula Magna during an Albert Einstein conference in 1925.

The establishment has three floors plus a semi-buried basement (and the attic on Bolívar street, which functions as a storage room). From the main entrance on Calle Bolívar, you enter a large, high-rise hall, with a beautiful staircase that leads to the first "cloister" (a wide corridor) perpendicular to Bolívar street, directly connected to the central cloister, with the teachers' room on the south side (a beautiful room extended with boiseries, columns, parquet flooring, paintings and two large tables) and the administrative sectors On the north side, in the center, you enter the Central Cloister, the largest and brightest, from which you can access the vice-rectory (characteristic for its "bow window", the boiserie and the wallpaper on the walls). and to the Moreno patios (characteristic for its fountain and sundial) and Rivadavia (characteristic for its pond and for the observatory. Returning to the first cloister on the ground floor, parallel to Bolívar street, there is another cloister, characteristic for its columns, this leads to to the right and left to two white marble honor stairs with symmetrical red carpets that go up to the first floor. At the end of said cloister there is a colonial pillar, which is the only preserved element of the old college founded by the Jesuit priests.

Patio

On the first floor, the main stairs lead to the corners of a cloister, also parallel to Calle Bolívar, which is part of the "sector noble" of the building and is built in the same style as the cloister below it, in it is the Assembly Hall, called Aula Magna, which is inspired by the Main Hall of the famous Paris Opera designed by Charles Garnier, said hall is Equipped with an impressive 3,600-pipe organ (the largest secular organ in the country), this is the most decorated room in the building. Next to the Aula Magna is the Library, with more than one hundred thousand volumes, it has books from the XVI onwards and its newspaper library is one of the most complete in Argentina in terms of publications from the XIX. Next to them is the Rectory and the Sala de Banderas, which are still decorated with original wallpapers, boiseries and oak floors.

Library

The library has been the scene of television programs and commercials.

Once you have passed the “noble sector” of the building, decorated with columns and marble and covered in imitation Paris stone, you enter the student cloisters, where the walls are covered with characteristic green tiles, and where the doors open of wood from the various classrooms. The physics cabinet is located on the first floor, and the biology, geography, and chemistry cabinets are located on the second floor. On the terrace there is an observatory equipped with a telescope. There several students attend talks, courses and astronomical observations.

In the basement there is a microcinema with capacity for more than two hundred spectators, a swimming pool, a buffet, two covered patios, a record archive, a shooting room that is not in use, and the music room. On other floors there are cabinets for Sciences, Plastic Arts, Geography, Ceramics, and a computer room.

The facilities also have a Multipurpose Room built in the 1970s on the third floor, above the Central Cloister, characterized by natural light, which replaced the use of the basement patio.

Sports

Poster at the entrance of the Sports Field, "since 1915".

The College has its own sports field located in Puerto Madero, which it still maintains despite the repeated attempts to expropriate it that have occurred since the port area was parceled out and the land was registered in the name of private hands, enabling the construction. The sport is compulsory but chosen after passing the swimming exam. The Field has a soccer field, a smaller grass field where hockey and handball are practiced, including volleyball and basketball courts, and a triangular grass area reserved for athletics activities, as well as bathroom facilities and changing rooms at the entrance. Located on Juana Manso and Trinidad Guevara, it is about 15 blocks from the College building and students can choose to take the tour on foot or organize collectively. The sports that are practiced in the Sports Field are: soccer, rugby, basketball, volleyball, handball, field hockey and athletics.

In addition, students can choose to practice judo and gymnastics inside the main school building, in the Multipurpose Room (SUM) on the third floor, characterized by being roofed with natural light.

Swimming is practiced in the basement of the Olympic pool.

Until about 1973, shooting was included in the curriculum; Despite the fact that the old shooting range is still preserved in the basement of the headquarters, the weapons were removed and this sport was never practiced again.

Model Extension

In response to the number of applicants, efforts have been made to extend the model to other schools. In 2004, former rector Horacio Sanguinetti recounted that "from the Ministry of Education I was unable to spread it due to the potential threat of the ill-fated Federal Law on Education", although he considered the extension of the model to the National College of Ushuaia, the National College of San Isidro and the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza (ILSE) a success.

From the perspective of the applicants, the unanimous agreement is that at the age of twelve when they enter the entrance course, "already come trained", they already come from twelve years of training. In 2012, admission coordinator Jorge Bottaro commented: "We see a training problem in primary school: students arrive without habits or study methodologies."

Despite the effort, the Nacional de San Isidro did not achieve pre-university status and as of 2010 it began to be articulated according to the Education Law. The ILSE, founded in 1892, and the very new National College of Ushuaia founded in 1994, continue to function under the model started at the CNBA, although their beginnings were very different and in opposite contexts.

The National College of Ushuaia

The National College of Ushuaia was founded in 1994 sponsored by the National College of Buenos Aires. The first rector was former CNBA history professor and former student Lucas Potenze (1967 class), succeeded in 2011 by Adrián Parra (CNBA former student, 1991 class).

«At the time of its inauguration, Tierra del Fuego was experiencing a time of change: driven by industrial promotion, tourism, and the creation of the new province, in the last 20 years the population had almost quintupled, especially with young people and school-age children. Then, a group of neighbors thought about the need to create a quality educational center that would prepare their students for admission to any university. To carry it out, a group of parents created a non-profit civil association and went to the National College of Buenos Aires, where Dr. Horacio Sanguinetti proposed signing a sponsorship and professional support agreement for the creation and maintenance of a new baccalaureate..»

«The southern mayor, Mario Danniele, realized the importance of the project and endowed it with a stupendous estate, a lenga forest that reaches the sea, with "good air and beautiful outlets -as the Wise King wanted in their Games-, because the teachers who show the knowledge, and the schoolchildren who learn it, live healthy in it, and can relax, and receive pleasure in the afternoon when they get up tired from studying.& #3. 4; We put all the collegiate drive there. The institute adopted our plans, programs and admission system. Buenos Aires teachers traveled to officiate as judges in the courses, others are going to teach improvement and leveling courses, and a former student and distinguished professor, Lucas Potenze, accepted the challenge of assuming the rectory. In 1994 we inaugurated the courses of the new National College of Ushuaia, in an act where the "living forces" they came in full, laughing and crying as they shared a devastating and enormous emotion.» (Horacio Sanguinetti).

“In the first 17 years that have elapsed, more than 1000 students have passed through the CNU classrooms and 13 promotions finished their studies. With the exclusive contribution of the parents, it was possible to build their own building inaugurated in the midst of the crisis of the year 2000, some time later the computer science and natural sciences laboratories were built and a SUM (multipurpose room) with system of projections and a library that bears the name of Dr. Gerardo Pagés and that keeps close to 10,000 volumes. Since 1998, a sub-office of the UBA XXI program of the University of Buenos Aires has been in operation. (...) In addition, since 1994, exchange trips have been made between students and teachers from both schools every year."

«Buenos Aires is preserved and revamped, fine-tuning details, maintaining traditions. But there the challenge is another. It is creating from nothing. Reach the borders and make homeland seriously. And Buenos Aires is present and will continue to be there, with all its intellectual and moral energies. With facts. Long live, and famous, the National College of Ushuaia. Its motto is the one that appears on some coins that Bougainville buried when he withdrew from Malvinas soil: Conamur tenues grandia , ""we are small, but we dare to be great"," (Horacio Sanguinetti).

Free Institute of Secondary Education (ILSE)

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«In the rectorate [of Adolfo Orma at the head of the CNBA, 1890-1892] internal discipline had suffered and conflicts of that order came to a crisis in an episode during which the students booed the general inspector of education, don Santiago Fitz Simons. He immediately asked the Executive Power to exonerate the rector, whom he accused of "abandonment or lack of skill"; in the performance of his duties. Orma was separated by decree of April 25, signed by President Pellegrini and his Minister Balestra (creator of the sections). »

«Orma's separation from the rectory of Nacional caused a group to meet at Calixto Oyuela's house and propose the creation of ILSE. The professors of the National College resign en masse to join the ILSE. They receive the academic protection of the UBA offered by members that make up the Superior Council of ILSE, and they were sponsored by Bartolomé Miter and Vicente Fidel López. On May 16, 1892, at Florida 756, the ILSE was finally inaugurated, with Dr. Orma as rector. In 1905 he obtained a new building on Calle Libertad in which he continues today. »

The ILSE "was mixed from 1907 to 1931 and from 1985 onwards." Former students: Enrique Telémaco Susini, Oliverio Girondo, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Tomás Abraham, etc.

History

Starting in the 17th century and practically without solution of continuity, educational institutions bearing different names followed one another in the place where today the National College works. They are usually considered, even by the school itself, as if it were a single institution that changed hands, its ideological and pedagogical orientation, largely reflecting the different historical circumstances that the country went through.

Colonial period: Royal College of San Carlos (1772-1810)

In 1654, the Cabildo of Buenos Aires entrusted the Jesuits to care for youth education. In 1661 they settled in this block (which would later be called the Manzana de las Luces), delimited by the current Bolívar, Moreno, Perú and Alsina streets, and founded the San Ignacio College, the first antecedent of the current institution.

Facade of the former Jesuit College.

The Jesuits were expelled from America in 1767, and Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo, governor since 1770, founded the Real Colegio de San Carlos, which was inaugurated on February 10, 1772, after having favorably issued by the Ecclesiastical Council in a report that, under the guidance of Juan Baltazar Maziel, proposed the creation of a convictorio and university in the Colegio Grande, taking as a model the Colegio de Monserrat founded in Córdoba in 1687. At the beginning of 1773, the The Board appointed Maziel himself, who wrote the study regulations and successfully directed the destinies of the College for fourteen years, as regent of the royal studies. Until the Marquis of Loreto, Viceroy Loreto banished him from the City of Buenos Aires.

Elevated to the rank of viceroy, Vértiz established the Real Convictorio Carolino or Real Colegio de San Carlos on November 3, 1783 under the protection of San Carlos Borromeo and the Royal Board of Trustees that he exercised on behalf of the King of Spain.

In the Constitutions, Vértiz announces having erected it to alleviate the loss of youth due to lack of confinement, with 80 schoolboys who dressed the cow on the eve of San Carlos, due to a lack of rooms to accommodate a greater number. The school was erected to perpetuate the memory of Carlos III, and his royal arms were placed over the entrance.

Their Constitutions established that there would be a rector at the head of the college, in charge of collecting the annual pensions of the college students. He had to keep books, to record the schoolboys who entered and the expenses. The vice rector would help the rector and would replace him in case of leave or illness. The prefect of studies directed the interior functions of the college. There would also be grammar and Latin interns.

Two types of students were established: a) the college student, who would be a pensioner and had to abide by all internal regulations; b) the manteista (capist), who would be external and would only attend classes.

The classes lasted one hour, of which the teacher dedicated 3/4 to dictate it, and the remaining 1/4 to draw the conclusion. Other times, for 1/2 hour he answered questions from the students. The intern was required to take the lesson before class, helping to understand its meaning so that it would not be memorized.

If a student had to hold a conference or a literary function, they would be exercised in the pulpit of the refectory, while the others ate and two others would reply. The usual thing was that at the end of the courses, the brightest students held a public act of the main points of the subjects of the year, which used to be held in the church of San Ignacio.

The two summer months there were vacations for the students and at that time they went to Chacarita, where all kinds of outdoor entertainment were allowed.

Its first rector was Vicente de Jaunzarás, whose authority regarding the Convictorio coexisted with that of Maziel, who attended the royal studies. The latter, exiled in Montevideo by Nicolás del Campo, Viceroy of Loreto (1787), was succeeded by Montero, and Jaunzarás, after the itinerary of José Antonio Acosta (1786-1791), Luis José de Chorroarín, Vértiz's godson and graduate of Chorroarín himself. College, who since 1791 was its most important rector, managing it until its disappearance in 1810.

Pupil dining room in the old colonial building.

During the colonial period, students who would later become political figures in Argentine history who contributed to independence studied at the College, including six of the nine members of the Primera Junta: President Cornelio Saavedra, secretaries Mariano Moreno and Juan José Paso, and the vocals Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli, and Manuel Alberti. They were joined by numerous public figures, such as Domingo French, Feliciano Antonio Chiclana, Manuel J. García, José Valentín Gómez, Manuel Moreno, Bernardo de Monteagudo, Nicolás Rodríguez Peña, Manuel Dorrego, Antonio Balcarce, Mariano Necochea, Tomás Guido and Martín Rodríguez.; nine of the twenty-one deputies of the Assembly of the Year XIII; the president of the Congress of Tucumán, Francisco Narciso Laprida; the supreme director Juan Martín de Pueyrredón; the first president of the Republic, Bernardino Rivadavia, and his interim successor Vicente López y Planes, author of the Argentine national anthem.

Emancipation Period (1810-1852)

By order of the Assembly of Year XIII, the College was merged with the Conciliar Seminary, although this stage had a very limited duration. At that time, the surgeon and professor of medicine Claudio Cuenca (1812-1852) studied, who, while trying to protect his patients in a field hospital, would be assassinated by a Spanish mercenary hired by Justo José de Urquiza.

In 1817, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón reorganized it under the name of Colegio de la Unión del Sud, which began operating in 1818. Justo José de Urquiza and Florencio Varela would study there.

In 1821, under the government of Martín Rodríguez, the University of Buenos Aires was established, and in 1823 the Colegio de Unión del Sud was transformed into the Colegio de Ciencias Morales during the ministry of Bernardino Rivadavia, under the tutelage of the brand new University and directed by Miguel Belgrano. At that time, the College was a boarding school of the University, with a very rigid discipline. The Colegio de Ciencias Morales trained many key men of the generation of 1837: Esteban Echeverría, Vicente F. López, Juan María Gutiérrez, Miguel Cané (father), José Mármol, Félix Frías, Carlos Tejedor, Marco Avellaneda, Antonino Aberastain, Marcos Paz, Juan Bautista Alberdi, who inspired the Argentine Constitution of 1853 and promoted the national organization. The future president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento lamented in his work Recuerdos de provincia not having obtained a scholarship to enter, despite having deserved it.

When Bernardino Rivadavia fell, Governor Juan José Viamonte merged the College with the College of Ecclesiastical Studies. In 1830, Governor Juan Ramón González de Balcarce closed the College. In 1836 it was reopened —although paid for— by Juan Manuel de Rosas, who handed it over to six Jesuit religious, whom he later expelled, accusing them of conspiring with the Unitarians. During that stage that lasted between 1836 and 1841, the institution took the name of Colegio de San Ignacio. Guillermo Rawson, José Benjamín Gorostiaga and Eduardo Costa were educated there. After the Battle of Caseros, the College site was used for a time as a barracks.

Period of national culture (1852-1962)

Pastor Obligado reestablished the old institution, which he called Ecclesiastical College, under the direction of the rector José Eusebio Agüero. Juan José Romero, Juan Antonio Argerich and Dominguito Fidel Sarmiento Jr. studied there of President Sarmiento.

National College Foundation

On the left, portrait of Amadeo Jacques, author of the 1863 curriculum and personality that exerted an emblematic influence during his brief rectory of the National College. On the right, portrait of José Manuel Estrada, rector of the National College between 1876 and 1883.

After the unification of Argentina, President Bartolomé Miter created the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires in the same place by decree 5447 of March 14, 1863, a pivot of his policy to integrate Buenos Aires and provincials. Amadeo Jacques, author of the 1863 curriculum, was its most emblematic rector, as recounted by Minister Miguel Cané in his autobiographical book Juvenilia, which vividly portrays the period of the College between 1863 and 1868.

Jacques was succeeded by Alfredo Cosson (1865-1876), and later by José Manuel Estrada, appointed on July 16, 1876. Estrada governed the College until he was removed from office in 1883 by President Julio A. Roca and his minister Eduardo Wilde due to his political-religious convictions, in the midst of the escalation of events that pitted the government against the Catholic Church. Estrada was replaced by Amancio Alcorta (1883-1890). He was followed by Adolfo Orma (1890-1892), Valentín Balbín (1892-1896), Juan P. Aguirre (1896-1900) and Manuel B. Babia (1900-1902). At that time the students of the College became notably politicized: a Committee was formed that edited a newspaper directed by the future radicals Mario Guido and José P. Tamborini. Enrique de Vedia (1902-1911) followed them in the rectory..

Incorporation of the College into the University of Buenos Aires

The school was incorporated into the University of Buenos Aires by decree of November 4, 1911 signed by the former student and president of the Nation, Roque Sáenz Peña, being the rector at that time Dr. Eufemio Uballes who also from the rectorate incorporated the Carlos Pellegrini School of Commerce into the orbit of the University. The annexation was not to everyone's liking, and on November 13 the rector of the College, Enrique de Vedia, resigned, who was succeeded by Eduardo Otamendi (1911-1915) who had served as vice-rector. After several years of debates, controversies and attempts to return the College to the orbit of the Ministry of Public Instruction, former student, teacher and congressman Luis Agote raised an in-depth discussion from his seat in Congress that led to the sanction of Law 10654, by which the National College of Buenos Aires was annexed to the University, thus endorsing the provisions of the 1911 decree.

Award "Dr. Eufemio Uballes"

Since 1922, the date on which Uballes finished his term as Rector of the University of Buenos Aires, by ordinance of the Superior Council of the Buenos Aires National College, students of said college "who have completed their studies in As regulars, they would have obtained the highest marks".

Ricardo Rojas: the "school of the homeland"

On the left, Ricardo Rojas, rector of the University of Buenos Aires, who in 1926 called the National College of Buenos Aires the “school of the homeland”. To the right, Albert Einstein on the occasion of a conference that he gave at the College in 1925, in the presence of Argentine scientists José Arce and Angel Gallardo.

Over time, the success of incorporating the College into the University became apparent, and initiatives soon appeared to extend the advantages of such a system to other institutions. Thus, in the cities of Córdoba and La Plata, study plans similar to those in force at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires were adopted, which established that secondary studies should be formative and unrelated to any utilitarian concern.

In his speech on August 12, 1926, Ricardo Rojas, rector of the University of Buenos Aires, stated:

Great is the responsibility that the University of Buenos Aires took on itself in re-exmunicating this institute, whose past compels at least to maintain the prestige of that tradition... My presence in the estrado not passively fulfilling an official duty, but more dynamic mobiles of human sympathy, born of my cult by the tradition of this historic school in which men of our emancipation were formed, and to which after a hundred and fifty years of civilizing labor, we could, by antonomasia, call it the school of the homeland.

Ricardo Rojas

Ricardo Rojas thus referred to a verifiable fact: that the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires was already at the beginning of the XX century the that the highest proportion of eminent men had given the Republic, the one that had generated the highest percentage of laureates in any field of organized intelligence. The first two Argentine Nobel Prize winners, Bernardo Houssay and Carlos Saavedra Lamas, studied there, and three Argentine presidents finished their secondary studies there: Carlos Pellegrini, Roque Sáenz Peña, and Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear. The College was an educator of scientists such as Luis Agote, Ángel Gallardo and Ignacio Pirovano; jurists such as Estanislao Zeballos, Luis María Drago, Eleodoro Lobos and Roberto Repetto; literati of the stature of Rafael Obligado, Ricardo Güiraldes, Baldomero Fernández Moreno, Calixto Oyuela, Eugenio Cambaceres, Lucio V. López and Enrique Larreta, and public figures such as Julián de Leyva, Antonio Dellepiane, José Nicolás Matienzo, Pedro Goyena, Aristóbulo del Valle, José Ingenieros, Mario Sáenz, Ernesto Quesada, Belisario Roldán, Martín García Mérou, Carlos Ibarguren, Abel Cháneton, Manuel Carlés, Nicasio Oroño, José León Suárez, Tomás Le Bretón, Norberto Piñero, Rodolfo Rivarola, Juan B. Justo, Nicolás Repetto, Alfredo Palacios, Aníbal Ponce, Juan José Díaz Arana, among others. (For a more complete list, see the final section on outstanding students).

The “Nielsen College”

"Genius and figure: a photo of young Nielsen tells him. Whoever contemplates that photograph, even if he ignores who it is, will reveal in that effigy a being of privileged intelligence, of ferret will, of enormous internal discipline. I did the test with a friend of mine. Without revealing who the picture was, I showed it. He looked at her, looked at me, studied her again and finally said: This must have been a dick." (Marco Denevi). In the photo the entrance hall and the bust of the rector.

During the rectorships of Eduardo Otamendi (1911-1915), José Popolizio (1915-1918) and Tomás Cullen (1918-1924), Juan Nielsen was the one who guided all educational policy. Appointed rector of the College, he reorganized it and gave it a new creative impulse. His rectorship lasted from 1924 to 1941, and it was the longest rectorship until the arrival of Horacio Sanguinetti at the end of the Process.

Ah, the good times we studied at Nielsen School! That's what we'd call it: Nielsen's school.

Marco Denevi

Nielsen was an emblematic figure of the College, who remained in the memory of several generations of students. He was in charge of finishing the new building, for whose remodeling the Belgian architect Maillard had been hired. This building, with some typical characteristics of a palace, was inaugurated on May 21, 1938, in an act headed by President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz. Five years later it was declared a historic site.

Starting in 1955, with university autonomy, the College recovered its role as a pilot school for experimentation. It incorporated women, students and teachers. The first students entered in 1959 and graduated in 1964. Many of their experiences have transcended primarily to schools organized by other national universities, and it is considered one of the most prestigious educational institutions in Argentina.

The College is a spiritual personality. In it were formed the proceres of independence, the civil host of Echeverría that dictated the National Constitution, the organizers of the 80s, and a multitude of scholars, artists, teachers, magistrates and men useful to the Republic.

Horacio J. Sanguinetti

The entrance exhibits a bust of Rector Juan Nielsen (1924-1941), responsible for the advance and inauguration of the current building.

Hector Greslebin, in one of the tunnels found at the beginning of the construction, in 1920, with the result of his research.

The old colonial building in which Miguel Cané recounted his experiences functioned until the construction of "the new house," planned just before 1910 in the midst of the euphoria of the Centenary in which the public buildings of the city they were replaced by multi-storied mansions in the French Beaux Arts style.

In 1908, a competition had been held to build the new headquarters of the University of Buenos Aires and the National College, using all of what had been named Manzana de las Luces in 1821, which would include the land with colonial buildings on Peru street. That is why the project was much more pretentious and larger, and the proposal of the architect Gino Aloisi had been chosen, which was not built in the end and the project to install the UBA there was aborted.

The current CNBA building was designed around 1910 by the French architect Norbert Maillart, also the author of the Central Post Office and the Palacio de Tribunales, with 9,826 m² covered area (that is, without counting the extensions carried out later).

The building was built in two stages, starting with the main façade on Bolívar street and the entire sector of the Library, Rectory and the offices of the Bolívar cloister, and continuing with the three cloisters parallel to Moreno street, in such a way that for a while the old Jesuit building coexisted with the new classic French-style house, and while the main façade was being built, the students entered from the side of Moreno street towards the old patio with checkerboard tiles. This is the situation experienced by former student Florencio Escardó in his memories titled as the building, The new house . By 1929, the National College building had already cost m$n 4,672,521, still missing an important part of the work. The new school would be completely inaugurated only on May 25, 1938 by President Roberto M. Ortiz.

Graduates and Alumni Association

Under the slogan "Brothers in the classroom and in life", the Alumni Association has a headquarters near the College that is used for various activities and events organized by the alumni. It publishes the magazine La Campanita, which can be accessed online from issue 34.

The Alumni Association organizes the traditional Alumni Soccer tournaments (FECNBA), whose photographic and journalistic coverage, shared with that of the alumni tournament, is carried out by the magazine Campo de Juego CNBA.

The Headquarters

«August 6, 1992 was the end of a long dream that began back in 1982, when the then Municipal Mayor of the city of Buenos Aires gave the initial push to the Ordinance that would deliver the property located in Perú and Moreno, the famous bar El Querandí, today our cultural headquarters, located on the historic corner of Moreno and Perú."

"This institutional chapter lasted ten years, the time necessary to materialize the offer and manage to recycle the bar and the upper floors of El Querandí, today our cultural headquarters, located on the historic corner of Moreno and Perú."

"Since then there have been pictorial exhibitions, exhibitions, conferences, book presentations, cultural cycles, debates and workshops of all kinds."

«Today, more than two thousand associates meet again, every five years at least, with hundreds of other alumni, in promotion meetings, which take place from the age of 20/25 to 70 and over. of graduates. They then toured the College facilities and received a commemorative medal in the Aula Magna, while they listened, surrounded by their children and grandchildren, to master classes given by their teachers from other times."

Posts

«In 1945 the first magazine of the Association was published: Juvenilia; then other publications appeared, especially articles or reprints of works that referred to the National College, various Yearbooks, the book for the Fifty Years, newsletters, the magazine La Campana, a name that recalls that old bronze of the College, located in the Bernardino Rivadavia courtyard and whose sounds were, over time, replaced by the ramalazos of the electric bell, and two editions of the Quis est quis, in whose pages many of us who choose to call ourselves "Brothers in the classroom and in life" appear.»

The old small farm and the new field

The first recreational place that the school had was called "la chacarita de los colegiales," used by the Jesuits since the early 1600s and located in what are now the Chacarita and Colegiales neighborhoods, and which also provided the school with its agricultural products, the remnants that were marketed went to the savings bank of the College. The constitution of 1783 regulated that students spend their summer vacations, which should not exceed 2 months, in that country house, and it was used that way in 1865 when it was immortalized by Cané in Juvenilia. It is also especially remembered in the Recuerdos del Viejo Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires by Federico Tobal, since just before the Juvenilia of Cané the State had tried to expropriate it from the Jesuits, at that time unsuccessfully. The chacarita was part of the school until 1871, when as a result of the yellow fever epidemic that decimated the population of Buenos Aires, the main part was destined for the municipal cemetery, which retained the name given to the place by the Jesuits: Chacarita.

Since 1915, the CNBA has had a sports field located at 500 Juana Manso street (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires), which today is the heart of the modern Puerto Madero neighborhood, but which until the 90s were land semi-abandoned harbors where private construction was prohibited. It is located in front of the Ecological Reserve of Buenos Aires. The students, through CENBA, have contributed during the 1990s and 2000s to the defense of this heritage, in relation to the attempts of the Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero Sociedad Anónima (CAPMSA) to buy the land.

In 2005, the former rector of the UBA, Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, signed a contract to sell the property. The student mobilizations frustrated the attempt and the agreement expired. However, the construction of large real estate developments, such as the Torres del Yacht had consequences for the infrastructure of the place. The men's changing rooms had to be propped up internally, the night watchman's house was demolished and there are no studies carried out on the consequences of the undermining of the land reclaimed from the river.^{[citation required]}

History of the Alumni Association

25 years after the graduation of a contingent of former students, the rector Juan Nielsen promised his support to create the Association on June 14, 1934. Headed by Rómulo Gallegos Echagüe, the graduates of the class of 1909 summoned the former students of all the promotions to an assembly in the room ceded by the newspaper La Prensa, at Avenida de Mayo 525, on August 23, 1934. The Association drafted its statute on November 10, 1934, and it was decided that it would be led by a board of directors that lasted in its mandate 4 years, renewing itself by halves every two years.

The beginnings of the Olympic Tour

This is how the rector Raúl Aragón remembers it: «The "Olympic return" it was a practice that began during the Frondizi government. It was, fundamentally, a gesture of rebellion and repudiation of the entire repressive system that prevailed in the College, which, finally, was incorporated into college life as an institutionalized practice, a tradition of the College, where almost graduates swept away the rules., with all the formality and rigid respect that was demanded of them and of people, so consubstantial with the College. [...] Suddenly, the juniors were seized with a fearful nervousness that transmuted into panic when closed phalanxes of seniors appeared, their faces covered by hoods, running up the stairs and through the cloisters, even penetrating the teachers' room and respecting only the Rectory and the Vice-rectory, shouting offensive expressions against unwanted teachers and preceptors, throwing water, flour and eggs in their path, sometimes breaking benches, doors and glass, with some guy usually hurt, and all ending up looking pitiful as the final sequel to the guerrillas produced. On some occasion, the "vuelta" it ended with everyone dressed in the pool, sometimes the participation - logically in a stellar role - of a soapy little pig was introduced. (Raúl Aragón, 2001, Glorias y Tragedias en el Colegio..., pp. 67-68.)»

One of the first rounds in 1960 or 1961 ended with one of the students, apparently for being the son of Risieri Frondizi, with a concussion as a result of the blows received, one of the tragic episodes in the history of the establishment.

Due to the fame given to the authorities, during the Aragón rectorship in 1973, he himself recounts that he did not expect it, and "what could not have been his embarrassment when, one morning in October 1973, the gear of the 'return' ", however the students remember: «In the work tables [proposed by the rector] the role of the Olympic return in the new "school for liberation" [...] At the work tables it was concluded that the return was an expression of joy and it was resolved that this celebration should not be opposed "as long as its purposes were not destructive" and no food will be thrown. In addition, those responsible for the return -and not the orderlies- would have to take care of cleaning the school. [...] (Garaño and Pertot, 2008, La otra juvenilia, 3ª ed.)» «The noises of the explosions of the noise bombs shook the school. The sixth graders disguised with sheets threw gamexane tablets into the first grade classrooms and then locked them. The boys of a first-year division decided, feeling suffocated, to go for a walk on the third floor cornices. Aragón walked through the cloisters, on the verge of losing his temper: the keys that did not appear, firecrackers and more firecrackers. "If after so many months of laburo they answer me like that, I have nothing to do," the rector told them, indignant. The sixth years were really sorry. Aragon had never bothered them, there was no reason to take revenge against him. They decided that they would accept any sanction. When Aragón returned, he gathered them all in a patio. He angrily explained to them why he considered what they had done to be a completely destructive act and therefore contradicted the national liberation process: "It's a shame!" Ultimately, what do they want? A school for very English children or a liberation school?!" the rector asked them, almost shouting. However, after the challenge, Aragón let them go. The students not only did not leave but for two days they cleaned the school. The rector considered that they had expiated his guilt and there was no sanction. » (Garaño and Pertot, 2008, The other juvenilia, 3rd ed.)

In the early 1990s, the use of animals and food in the festivities of the return was strictly prohibited. In an attempt to stop it, in 1995 the vuelta began to be sanctioned with a higher number of reprimands each year, which finally ended in 1999 with the resolution to ban them completely. outside the establishment and only if it is informed in advance to the authorities, so that that day only deliveries of notes are made through some secondary entrances on the sides of the building, and that the previous days can be warned through notes that nobody parks his car in that sector to avoid damages. So far there has been no disturbance in these celebrations.

Cultural references

Literature

There are several literary works that take place or are memories of the College. The poet Horace (Odes, IV, 9) said that there are many brave men who lived before Agamemnon, but who lie unknown in the long night of oblivion because they lacked an inspired admirer to recall their prowess., and this also applies to Argentine literature prior to the liberation from the Spanish crown, since if there were manuscripts, nothing has remained of them. The Argentine literature that survived to this day began to appear during the period of civil wars after the May 1810 Revolution and was often published abroad or after the fall of a dictator.

• 1848. "To my friends of school", by the poet José Mármol, who in 1838 was imprisoned because of his militancy against Rosas, after which he lived in exile. At a time in the country in which, after the freedom of the Spanish crown achieved in 1810, the struggle between small pockets of life, ruled by creepy leaders, "dur(ria) more than 30 years, had a fierce hardness and was about to give the so-called national unity by land", was written this poem, dedicated to the companions who had formed in the Colegio de Ciencias Morales The poem was written 10 years later but temporarily located at 30 years of exile; this is a version that came to our day, since its works are characterized by its numerous and disorderly versions, many of them lost.

[...]When the soul ingenuates the bright luck

Makes the child doubt if there is death for man,

And sorrows in the world for his heart;

And our yesterday is touching with the tender wrinkle

From our cradle of angel, and the future, eternal

We look at the prism of imagination;

And you think it's a lie that we hear

Of human light and evil that we did not see,

And friends who sell and love with doubleness;

And to imagine we came to contemplate the old,

That it's almost impossible to get so far,

Or that we lack centuries to feel old;[... ]

How sweet is the happy memory of those moments,

In the middle of the sight when he sees them distant

The already tired life of the sad heart;

And in the past it takes the memory,

Like dried mortuary tombstone flowers

That covers some remains of our worship! [... ]

With my first dreams; with the first flowers

That from the garden of my soul they poured their smells,

Immaculate lives your memory in me.

Time is impotent to boot tyrant

Roots that embroidered the human heart,

when she takes them a virgin and deepens them. [...]

In this wandering life that in my early years

I take my sorrows for fear of strangers

Where, at what time, did mine forget?

The tropical breezes, the gusts of the pole,

The mountains and the desert, where I cried alone,

They know your names and my sincere faith. [...]

Friends of my childhood; my tender companions,

I look at my pleasant days,

You'll never see me again!

I know that in my tomb will not grow a rose

Let it open and be killed under the beautiful light

From the sun that surprised my eyes at birth.

But pay me I always remember with memory,

And if my sad days on strange soil lose,

The echoes don't miss my unhappy lute.

Reconquer my verses where you will find my story;

Then... after that, don't die my memory...

I've seen some flowers born of a coffin!

José Mármol, "To my school friends" (fragments)

• 1884. YouthMiguel Cané. This work that vividly portrays its passage through the College (1863-1868) is a true classic of Argentine literature. His father Miguel Cané had been a respected man of the 37th generation and the life of the son is representative of the treatment of the children of these men in the right time after the wars that had convulsed the country, that of the National Organization, which was preparing the 80th generation of which Cané son would be a part. President Mitre of the College commemorates on a plaque one of his most famous quotes: "I would say to the young man who may read these lines, walking in the same cloisters where five years of my life passed, that the successes all of the Earth start from the past hours on the books in the early years." In the beginnings of Argentine cinema it was versioned in the 1943 Youth film.

Already at the time of Rector Dr. Agüero (in the painting of Prilidiano Pueyrredón, hall of the flags of the new building), the State tried to appropriate the "chacarita de los collegiales" used by the Jesuits since the beginning of 1600, who dedicated their dividends to the savings box of the College subsequently also disappeared.

• 1896. Canon Doctor Don Eusebio de Agüero and the National College and Conciliar Seminary founded by him, series of articles published in the journal The Fifth in Buenos Aires between 1895 and 1896 in which former student Federico Tobal recalls with appreciation and respect the rector and canon Dr. Agüero, who was the first rector of the Consolidated College in 1854 after the fall of Rosas, and whom he met as a student 10 years before the Youth Cané. The articles were reprinted in "El Diario" of Lainez in 1907 under the name "Records of the National College" and decades later this "Forgot Youth" as it was called later, was reissued in a slightly corrected version - apparently the original has been lost- under the name Memories of the old Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires(editorial Rosso, Buenos Aires, 1942). More than a book of anecdotes, which inevitably exists, is a reflection on the personality of the rector and how he transmitted it to the students, about his predictability about the future and what the College and the country lost in the field of education after their death in which all their projects were being erased.

"The last parliamentary battle in which it unfolded its vigor, all its zeal and its great love for youth, was the reference to the Chacarita de los Colegiales that wanted to pluck out the domain and heritage of the school. He triumphed, but his exaltation was such, that when he returned to the College at night, he came sniffing and alluring as a farmer after the victory purchased at the tip of courage. His condition was such, that he must have slept immediately and taken some calming, sending the doorman to wake up and call one of us. When we entered his piece, so he saw us, he told us, turning on the bed:
- My children, if I don't go to the House today, we'll be taken from the Chacarita. And he repeated two or three times with a deep accent: they take away our little girl!"

Federico Tobal, The Canon Doctor Don Eusebio de Agüero and
the National College and Conciliar Seminar founded by him,
"Records of the old Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires".

• 1939. What was the National College of Buenos Aires in 1870, "dissertation of the former rector Dr. Manuel B. Bahia at the luncheon of companionship made in his honor by the former students of the College on June 10, 1939 at the University Club of Buenos Aires". 12-page book of the Imprenda Lurati, Buenos Aires, is at the College Library, according to the critique of an "emotive testimony".

New building projected by the French architect Norbert Maillart in 1908 and built between 1910 and 1938.

• Created near 1920, the poem He chose the old Central National, by Baldomero Fernández Moreno, who came out in 1903 when he had not yet been rebuilt his solar, architectural work that began just after 1910. In the poem, as in his most famous Setenta balconies and no flowerthe author notes with nostalgia the modernization of the city and the loss of its colonial identity.

"The dreadful time moves his piqueta.

Where's my old Central National?

This great palace tells me nothing,

Many such have the city.

If I barely remember, if I barely remember,

Three or four lustres have already passed.

It was a wide, sound and dark portal,

And a goalkeeper alerts like a can.

And immeasurable runners

high-wall lime lime lime,

white tiles and black tiles

and an aroma of years and holiness." [...]

Baldomero Fernández Moreno, He chose the old Central NationalThe first verses.

• 1963. The New House, evocations of the National College of Buenos Aires, of Florencio Escardó, who graduated in 1922.

"Despite the strict vigilance that the school exercised, there were in our course three boys who disappeared when they wanted, just as soon as they were in danger of being interrogated by the teachers in a disadvantageous situation lacked that class, to reappear quietly and serenely in the next. We warned him when, present when he passed the attendance list, they were not at the teacher's call. As we were required, with automatic and not required complicity, the most plausible explanations.

- He got sick.

- He went out with permission.

- He's in the Prefecture.

After the danger returned and there was no force in the world that made them confess to where they had been hidden; when the inquisitive pressure became very strong they merely answered:

- We were smoking.

And nobody pulled them out of there. It was obviously a slogan. In the meantime they enjoyed the combined prestige of the effectiveness of an escape and hermeticism. Until one day the presence of an older mystery made them speak. They had discovered an effraction on the board partition that separated the remaining cloister from the demolished site to the west; as a “impasse” the courtyard inspectors did not believe it necessary to monitor it. With the patience of presidiaries they had perfected the donkey without altering the external anatomy and at the favorable time they went to the land where, while the work was stopped, the herbs were recaptured the implacable plant right on the pieces of ruined walls and on the disorder of fragments of bricks and cements, set conducive to any adventure and wonderful place for a getaway; in that dense Huber The need for reservations was obvious since the spread of the news had meant the end of the enjoyment and the three kept it as sworn by calling, for more romanticism, “Ortus conclusus” to that yuyal of ricino, cardos and weeds that bark a hundred meters from the May Pyramid. It happened that through their coto of smoke they gave with something that they never expected: the mouth of a wide vaulted tunnel, free of all obstruction and perfect structure that based on what had been the funds of the former College extended to the northeast or in the direction of the House of Government; they penetrated carefully into it and progressed without difficulty many meters until it surrounded them the most complete darkness. They abandoned the explorations for the best occasion, but when returning to the College the magnitude of the discovery was more than the escape interest and between illusioned and unbelieving several more we were initiated in the tremendous secret. "

Florencio Escardó, The new house.

• 2005. Racconto del Nacional de Buenos Aires, by Rodolfo Ferrero (promotion 1936?), where the author evokes his years as a pupil, cellar and later a doctor of the historic Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. "Life is not the one who lived, but the one who remembers and how he remembers it to tell it," is García Márquez's phrase that the author makes his own and shapes his story. The book is complemented by a section on dyslexias, considerations about the charge of cellar, juicy anecdotes of the medical office of the school and an exhortation to the union of all "brothers in the classroom and in life".

From the years '1970 in which it was a difficult and traumatic era in the history of the country, which the CNBA overcame with the sad statistics of being the most beaten secondary school, with the greatest number of disappeared and exiled, remained a legacy that resulted in a significant number of works:

• 1996. Franca, the story of a missing woman, of the graduate Gustavo Szulansky, printer of the National College of Buenos Aires, reissued in 2006 by Juvenilia Editions as Franca 18 years, disappeared. "Narra las experiencia del apasionado y premature estudiontado del Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires que el autor knew in his step by that institution. The reader will succeed in palparing the lit ferment of this youthful militancy, based on some impressions that appeal to tenderness and indignation. "
• 1997. Good memory, photographic composition of Marcelo Brodsky (promotion 1972) internationally acclaimed, following the story of his brother and his best friend (Martín Bercovich), both exalumnos of the CNBA disappeared during the military dictatorship. According to their own words, "to tell young people a history of violence and absence through emotions, so that they experience it firsthand and can act to prevent it from happening again when the situation is given." The book-shaped edition was included in the second volume Photobook, the history of photography according to Martin Parr through his most influential titles, and was published in Spanish, English, Italian and German. "Good Memory" has been shown in more than 120 opportunities in twenty-six countries until 2009, individually or integrating several artistic projects. The photo "Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires - First year sixth division" is a cover of the book.
• 2001. Glorias y Tragedias en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Airesattributed to Raúl Aragón, who was a teacher and rector of the College. "With the boys I came, with the boys I'm leaving," Aragon said on the night of 1974 when the intervention Ivanissevich-Ottalagano landed at the university. It was not too much that was in front of Buenos Aires, but enough to leave traces that are still present. Those who lived those days at school, whether as a student or a teacher, emphasize that “in a terribly convulsed time he maintained it with a good academic level and with a very high level of participation.” "In this book Aragón puts aside his own prominence, and he stops in the moral force of the students sacrificed to the rigor of the repressors, a force that feeds on defining texts of an identity of the College and the Nation, in successive generations of teachers and students who made their sense worth in climaxes: in May 1810, in the generation of 37, in which they fought the best of the Argentinean identification, Classified as Novel-Ensay-Autobiography.
• 2004. Symphony for AnaGaby Meik, who tells the story of an Argentinian teenager in the '70s and her passing through the National College of Buenos Aires. Lidia Godena: "Starts with her entry to high school, during the third president of Perón and ends a couple of months after the 1976 coup. It tells Ana's daily life, her militancy at school and outside of her, her first loves, sexual awakening, friends and family life; she has a lot of rock, a lot of rhythm, and a lot of political character from the time: Isabel, López Rega, references to Che, among others. It's a book that teenagers love, they identify a lot with Ana and her friends. It's hard, but unforgettable. "
• 2007. Morales Sciences, of the graduate Martin Kohan, winner of the 2007 Novela Herralde Award, fiction, which recounts as a background and as a mobilizer of an anecdote the passage of the military dictatorship of the National Reorganization Process by the College. In 2010 it was adapted to the film The Invisible Look. "The heavy and dense atmosphere of the school is the real character: it is a surprising narrative in its way to palp the oppressive air without the contest of a me that exposes it or rememorates it." "In both cases [(the book and the film)], the microworld of the Buenos Aires National College works as a scale representation, confirming that, as the prefect argues, "the history of the school and that of the homeland are one and the same thing." The book is available online.

• 2010. The Legacy of Moreno, by Ricardo Romero, according to his pages published by "Cooperative Editions", entrepreneurship of teachers of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the UBA to disseminate his writings. Fiction deals with a CNBA teacher and a group of students who are curiously looking for what the legend told in class is the "Legade of Moreno", secretary of the First Board of Government. The book is available online.

In addition, the College is mentioned in a secondary way in numerous literary texts such as the following:

• 1850. Memories of provinceof Domingo Faustino Sarmiento:

He concluded my learning of the school by one of those very frequent injustices, that I have kept myself when I have found myself in similar circumstances. Don Bernardino Rivadavia, that poor-handed farmer, and whose well-chosen plants should be trampled on by the horses of Quiroga, López, Rosas and all the heads of the barbaric reaction, asked each province six young people of known talents to be educated on behalf of the nation, so that, when their studies were completed, they would return to their respective cities to exercise the scientific professions and give their country a shine.

I asked you to be a decent family, though poor, and Don Ignacio Rodriguez went home to give my father the faust news of being my name that led the list of the favorite children that the nation would take under his protection. But the greed of the rich aroused, there were endeavors, all the citizens were in the case of the donation, and there was to form a list of all the candidates; the choice was cast into luck, and as the fortune was not the patron of my family, it did not touch me to be one of the six graces. What a day of sadness for my parents that they gave us the terrible news of scrutiny! My mother cried silently, my father had his head buried in his hands.

And yet, the fate, which had been unfair to me, was not with the province, if it was not that she could not take advantage of after the goods that were prepared.

(...) The only thing that is clear is that none of the six young people educated by Bernardino Rivadavia has remained in San Juan, depriving this province of collecting the fruit of that measure that alone would suffice to make that government forgive many other faults.

Faustino Sarmiento Sunday, Memories of province (fragments)

• 1874. "The captain of Patricks", of the poet and famous critic Juan María Gutiérrez (promotion 1827?). The story is located in 1810 and makes a reference to the fact that as part of his training as a student the 25-year-old captain studied at the school of San Carlos, where he was lucky to be a disciple of a professor Fernandez.
• 1887. In the blood, novel by former Alumno Eugenio Cambaceres (promotion 1861?), considered "a chismoso narrator" who "everyone reads stealing," and who suffered deliberate discrimination in the literary circles of the time. Being his first novel and the one that made him famous written in a tone and with different convictions of the following, the fourth novel attributed to his name runs through the life of Genaro, the son of Italian immigrants who arrive in the country without resources or education and that after progressing economically, due to the abilities of the son, to have the resources and the ambitions of social progress, then in the first pages of the novel they sent to the son Genaro adapts his ambitions to those of the mother but fails to learn to work and study, so he uses artimañas to achieve the desired social success.
• 1889. Irresponsible, the first novel by the doctor Manuel Podesta (promotion 1871), who after a rich curriculum resigned all his posts and maintained the director of the Hospital of Alienadas (now Moyano), his novel more than as a literary work was treated as a strategy to expose his thesis that the irresponsible It is a brain deterioration with a genetic basis, adjudicating it to a protagonist who refuses throughout the work to name it. The novel that seems to be a series of memorabilia or fantasies, and by parts edited with literary images, today is rescued as a founding novel of naturalism in Argentina, and "a new way of novelting, almost without precedent, without doubt without descendants". The first chapter takes place in the adolescence of the protagonist in the classrooms of the National, in the chapter "Irresponsible" the protagonist keeps a conversation with an old companion of the College that the writer uses to exhibit his hypothesis regarding the life and personality of the protagonist.
• 1915. Garcia Mérou, Martin. Literary memories. Introducing Ricardo Monner Sans. La Cultura Argentina, Buenos Aires.
• 1958. Adolfo Bioy Casares. Before the nine hundred. Buenos Aires.
• 1998. The eyes of the Siberian dog of Antonio Santa Ana. In I'll never be a superhero, also of Antonio Santa Ana, is named a "Colegio" and it is mentioned that it is very difficult to enter, even though the name of the establishment is never mentioned it is common for readers to think of the CNBA. The author studied secondary school and has a son who went to CNBA.
• 1998 (publication). "Bolívar and Moreno" a story by a younger Martin Kohan, does not happen in the College but entirely in one of his mythical corners. The story was finalist of the "Haroldo Conti" award, awarded by the Pcia. of Buenos Aires and the University of Quilmes, and published in books distributed by Page/12. It was published in 1998 as part of the author's storybook, An extraordinary penalty of the Sigmur publishing house
• 2003 "Once Argentinian" by Andrés Neuman. The narrator studies at the College.
• 2008. They're memories.from the historian Tulio Halperín Donghi (promotion 1944), an autobiographical look with literary dyes in which he evokes his years of childhood and youth, among which is his passage through the College.
• 2011. The Electrocute from J. P. Zooey.
• 2012. Spy your neck, by Javier Trimboli, who tells stories and reflections that happen in different times from the 1970s to the 2000s, among them his passage through the College, in a book that is difficult to cages, defined by Guillermo Korn as "evocation of dismay". Juan Pablo Maccia says: "The novel, by calling it in some way, relates the learning of a historian born in the last sixty: accommodated middle class -Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires- political flirtation filoperonista on the PC of Luder Vittel, teaching. Memories of someone who, sad, is aware that the institutions that formed him expected more of him. Although in the beginning it may discourage (...), in the second part our historian no longer fits in any discourse. Mad in his own mood he gives himself – from a lecture in a teacher training course – to a brilliant narrative – even not despite the nonsense – of Argentine history. The entire novel can be read as a demented reflection on the eighties of the century that precedes us, disquiced by the interlocution with Ramos Mejía and, through it, with not a few episodes of the centuryXIX around which the character of the nation is discovered."
• 2015. Thomas Abraham's difficulty. Abraham's autobiographical novel mentions several times his failed attempt to enter the College. He goes to study at the Second Education Free Institute.
• About the time of repression of the 1970s:

• 1977. Pico de Paloma, publisher Corregidor, of the young exalumna Gloria Kehoe, the only book that came to publish just before becoming disappeared. It was reissued in 2004 Pico dove and other writingsin which unpublished texts are added, the memories of his fellow scholars and other testimonies "of that intense literary search".
• 2007. Graciela is among us by Jorge Gaggero (compiler), about the missing exalumna at almost 30 years old Graciela Mellibovsky. "Milling in the ranks of revolutionary Peronism during the last decade of his young life, Graciela Mellibovsky was arrested-disappeared by a task force of the First Army Corps in September 1976. In memory of Graciela - on the 60th anniversary of his birth and more than 30 years after his abduction and disappearance - his family, some of his many friends and prominent protagonists of those tough years, testify on these pages of his life and his time. The delightful mark of his remembrance in us has frustrated the diabolical intent of those who took it in the flower of his age. They participate, among others, of this Memory of all: Matilde, Santiago and Leonardo Mellibovsky - Adriana Kowalewski - Cristina Caiati - Jorge Gaggero - Horacio Verbitsky - José Pablo Feinmann - Mary Günfeld - Fernando Mellibovsky - Gustavo Caraballo - Fernando Portarta - Horacio Losoviz - Jorge Gaggero (son) - Horacio Losoviz - Marie Moavro

Theater

• 1978. The Student, of the graduate Carlos Somigliana. An exalumno "of the mythical Buenos Aires" returns to visit his professor of literature, almost 30 years after graduating. "It is a visceral and lively dramaturgy, which seeks to reveal a truth, showing at the same time a radical inarm between the vision of the world and the world itself." It was premiered that same year at the Teatro Lasalle in Buenos Aires, along with other works considered by Carlos Gorostiza "the beginning of the Open Theatre", and set up again in 2010 at the Teatro del Pueblo in Buenos Aires under the direction and adaptation of Luis Sáez.

Essays

There are also several essays that take the College as a reference.

• 2013. The College, the formation of a meritocratic elite in the National Bs As. (South American edition) by Alicia Méndez. "A rehearsal from interviews with former students of various promotions about the Buenos Aires National College as the memorandum model par excellence of elites of Argentina for 150 years."
• 2010. El Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires by Gustavo Brandariz, with a prologue of former editor Horacio Sanguinetti, is considered a continuous and up-to-dater of the essay on the history of the College of the Exrector. (1.o ed. Buenos Aires IIHML, 2010.) Drawings of Carlos Moreno. Photos of Carlos Blanco. 56 p., ilus., 29.5 x 21 cm (Collection Cuadernos de la Manzana de las Luces / directed by María Sáenz Quesada. Volume 8).
• 2009. Fifty years is nothing. The first girls in Buenos Aires. The book refers to the first generation of women who entered the CNBA in 1959. Written by the exalumnas themselves.
• 2005. Fuck 72 - The Return. A history of Argentina, compiled by Odino Ciai and Cristóbal Raúl Santa María, edited by Juvenilia Editions. They say flap and contract: "The Carajo 72 Promotion of the National College of Buenos Aires opens an email list to organize the celebration of its anniversary of graduates. It is not any time in Argentina: it is 2002, the year of "everyone leave". It's not any anniversary: it's 30 years since they left the College. It is not any promotion: it is one of the most beaten by the repression of the 70s. The list brings together the experiences of those who remained in the country, of those who left definitively and of those who returned. Carajo 72 - Return It is a collage of memories, anecdotes and reflections, which emerged from the exchanges by e-mail of the graduates of the year 1972 of the National College of Buenos Aires".
• 2002. The other Youth. Militancy and repression at the National College of Buenos Aires, 1971-1986from Santiago Garaño and Werner Pertot, graduates who collect personal stories and reconstruct the history of the missing students of the College during the dictatorship. The research that led to this book enabled the correcting of the list of missing students from 98 to 105 (number that subsequently increased, see The future is ours on television). Third edition, in 2008, was "corrected and increased" and a prologue by José Pablo Feinmann was added.
• 1999. When Eros went to the National College of Buenos Aires (1973-1974)by Jorge Iglesias, in edition "mimeo" according to The other Youth(2003).

• It was one of the 3 winning essays in 2001 of a UBA Human Rights Program contest in which more than 50 essays had participated, and published in 2003 under the name Construction of Memory, of EUDEBA publishing house, about the time of disappearances of the 70s

• 1998. Lower.
• 1995 El Colegio Nacional de Buenos AiresManrique Zago (editor). Manrique Zago Editions. 200 full color pages with emblematic photos. It is achieved in the "Librería del Alumno" that is in the corner of the College, commerce without relation to the institution.
• 1992. Quis est Quis. Brothers in the classroom and in life. Buenos Aires, Asociación de Ex Alumnos del Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires [and successive enlarged editions].
• 1990. Addresses by the Rector Horacio Sanguinetti. Published by the University of Buenos Aires, Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
• 1987. Furlong, Guillermo and De Paula, Alberto. Colegio "Grande" de San Ignacio 1617-1767; Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Manzana de las Luces, Buenos Aires.
• 1985. Estrada Abalos, José M. "El Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires en la Presidencia de Nicolás Avellaneda" (Unpublished work presented at the National Congress of the Argentine History Society). In Nicholas Avellaneda, his ideas and his time. Avellaneda.
• 1984. Asociación de Ex Alumnos del Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires 1934 – 1984. The 50 years of the Association. Buenos Aires, 1984.
• Brief History of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, by Horacio Sanguinetti, with 3 editions:

• 1963. Brief history of the National College of Buenos Aires, with a poem by Baldomero Fernández Moreno. Edition of the "Amadeo Jacques" Cooperative Association.
• 1984. Second edition by the publisher Macchi. The period after the first edition is very briefly updated. He only devotes one last paragraph to the military government of 1976-1982, which only mentions his existence and wishes that from the turn of democracy the institution will be renewed "in its most glorious traditions".
• 2006. Third edition by Juvenilia Editions.

• 1982-84. Brandariz, Gustavo A. The building of the National College of Buenos AiresBuenos Aires.
• 1976. José María Monner Sans. Brief Remembrances of a PreteritoEmecé Ed., Buenos Aires.

A professor of literature [was] concerned about the written test of one of his students, because by asking each to transcrib three or four verses of the Martin Fierro, he chose the misaddict for some text very scabily criollo. Was the choice of that fragment intentional, and with him wanted to provoke the teacher's reaction? Nielsen read the test and drowned in the collections of his extraordinary visual restraint. I believe - he said- to know who that student is; perhaps he has sinned more of naive than of taimado or of rogue, so you have a resource to find out: let him read out these faces and see if he is able to conclude the second, where he reproduces the stinking stropha. The teacher, quite recellent of what might happen in the classroom, put into practice the experience advised by Nielsen. And when the reader came to the second carilla and saw one of those sextinas, his voice was caught and he cried. He informed him that for the future he would choose other passages of minor gaucha zafaduría in case, casually, he was asked to tell them at the end-of-course examination. This avoided the presumable scandal and a superfluous or tinker reprimand.

José María Monner Sans (1976) Brief memories of a pretery. Emecé Ed., Buenos Aires.

• 1998. Juan Nielsen. Portrait of a MasterMarco Denevi, a well-known writer who is also a former student. In the work Denevi, who died shortly after publishing it, relates life and trajectory of Juan Nielsen, who was rector of the school from 1927 to 1941, and collected testimonies of students who knew him personally.

It was in 1930 when I was in the first year of high school. When we arrived at the school we saw that the doors were closed and that the highest and the strongest among those of the sixth year occupied the granite staircase by which you have access to the building. They yelled at us, no one comes in today! It was the first time a thing like that happened. We felt unbelievable and also troubled at the prospect of a day of astute. Six-year-olds continued to vote: no one comes in, no one! The big iron and glass doors open and up there appears Nielsen in person! We saw it very high, erect, imposing. We all make silence. Nielsen sweeps with the look around him, spreads a long right arm, extends an even longer index finger, and with a perennial addition points towards the interior of the school. The sixth-year-olds bow their heads and, without stinging, obey. Cosa curiosa, the last to abide by Nielsen's mute order were us, the first-year lambs. It was hard for us to give up the day of astute.

Nelio Duranti (Testimony) in: Marco Denevi. Juan Nielsen, Portrait of a Master.

• 1972. Groussac, Paul. "José Manuel Estrada." In: The ones that happened. Editorial Huemul. Buenos Aires. The book also appoints Rector Alfredo Cosson.
• 1945. Vilardi, Julián A. "Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires". In: Histonium, year 7, n. 77, Buenos Aires, October 1945.
• 1944. Barreda Laos, Felipe. "The Royal College of San Carlos de Buenos Aires". In: Revista de la Biblioteca NacionalBuenos Aires.
• 1943. Lizer and Trelles, Carlos A. Prof. Dr. Juan Nielsen. Talleres Gráficos Tomás Palumbo, Buenos Aires. Separate from: Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina.
• 1940. Orma, Adolfo. My memories of the Buenos Aires National College as a student and as a teacher: 1875 to 1890. Asociación de Ex Alumnos del Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
• 1939. Wilde, Eduardo. "Chart on Youth." In: Pages chosen. With selection, prologue and notes by José María Monner Sans. Angel Estrada, Buenos Aires.
• 1939. Vilardi, Julian A., La Manzana de las Luces y el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Prologue by Guillermo Furlong Cardiff. Silver Literary Academy. Buenos Aires.
• 1938. Salvadorans, Antonino. "Real Colegio de San Carlos". In: History of the Argentine Nation. National Academy of History, Buenos Aires. (according to Brandariz 2013 is 1928)
• 1930. Ricardo Rojas. Addresses by Rector Ricardo Rojas. Printer of the University of Buenos Aires. In particular "Youth Rights."
• 1928. Antonino Salvadores. "Real Colegio de San Carlos". In: National Academy of History. History of the Argentine Nation. Buenos Aires, ANH.
• 1927. Ponce, Hannibal. "Amadeo Jacques." In: The old age of Sarmiento. Talleres Gráficos Rosso, Buenos Aires.
• 1918. Sousa Argüello, Armando de. The Royal College of San Carlos: its origin and influence in the development of the May Revolution. Printed A. Ferriol, Buenos Aires.
• 1917. Furlong, Guillermo. "The First College of the Society of Jesus in Buenos Aires: 1608-1661". In: Legal Criticism, History, Politics and Literary. Buenos Aires.
• 1915. Caraffa, Pedro I. The College of San Carlos, or the House in which the May Generation was producedSouth American Bank Billing Company, Buenos Aires.
• 1915. Saenz, Mario. "Standards for College History." In: Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, year 12, take 31.
• 1910. Pillado, José Antonio. "The San Martín picket: the first foundation of the Society of Jesus in Buenos Aires." In: Buenos Aires Colonial: buildings and customs. South American Bank Ticket Company, Buenos Aires.
• 1906. Argerich, Juan Antonio. Memories of the classroom. In: Articles and Addresses. Coni, Buenos Aires.
• 1896. "Colegio de San Carlos y Seminario Consular". In: General Archive of the Argentine Republic. 2nd series. Independence period. Year 1810. Kraft, Buenos Aires.
• 1774. Riglos, Marcos José de. Yndize of Sn College papers. Ignatius and Betlende of this city and of the recidence of Sn. Felipe de Montevideo. Buenos Aires.

Some of the numerous essays in which it is mentioned in a secondary way:

• 2014. Pibes: Memories of student militancy in the 1970sHernan López Echagüe. Memories about his secondary student militancy in the Sunday F. Sarmiento school night shift, during his militancy in the Secondary Students Union (UES) appear the companions of the Pellegrini and CNBA militancy.
• The Will by Martín Caparrós and Eduardo Anguita, "A history of revolutionary militancy in Argentina 1966-1978" is the subtitle he proposes, he has parts in which he speaks a bit of how that era was lived in the establishment, besides constantly narrating the adventures of exalumnos like Firmenich.
• 2011. 18,885 days of politics (absolute views of a complicated country)of the ex-minister of the menemato Carlos Corach, South American publishing house. "Del Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires al Pacto de Olivos, el ex Ministro del Interior repasa cada peldaño, cada joy, cada traspié y cada Enseñanza de su carrera."
• 2003. Rotunno, Catalina; Díaz de Guijarro, Eduardo (Compiladores). Construction as much as possible. The University of Buenos Aires from 1955 to 1966. Buenos Aires, Libros del Zorzal, 2003. Prologue of Marcelino Cereijido.
• 2001. Sanguinetti, Horatio. La Ópera y la sociedad argentina. Buenos Aires, MZ editions, 2001.
• 2001. Almaraz, Roberto; Corchon, Manuel; Zemborain, Rómulo. FUBA! The student struggles in the time of Perón (1943-1955). Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2001. Prologue of Felix Luna.
• 1998. Vermeren, Patrice. Amadeo Jacques. The democratic dream of philosophy. Buenos Aires, Colihue, 1998
• 1992. Fragments of a Memory: UBA 1821-1991. Eudeba, Gaglianone; Buenos Aires.
• 1975. Osvaldo Loudet. Critical and history tests. Buenos Aires, Academia Argentina de Letras.
• 1974. Osvaldo Loudet. Memories of Children and Youth. Buenos Aires, Graphical establishments COLUMBIA.
• 1964. Solari, Juan Antonio. Argentine lay generation. Men of Law 1420 and Liberalism. Buenos Aires, Bases, 1964
• 1962. Tulio Halperín Donghi. History of the University of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Eudeba.
• 1961. Alexander Korn. The Argentine Thought, Nova editions.
• 1957. Sanchez Viamonte, Carlos. Argentine liberal thought in the nineteenth century. Buenos Aires, Gure, 1957.
• 1955. Arrieta, Rafael Alberto. The city and the books. Bibliographic tour of the past porteño. Buenos Aires, Colegio Library, 1955.
• 1950. Juan Mantovani. Épocas y hombres de la educación argentina. Buenos Aires, El Ateneo.
• 1950. Moyano, Osman. Ideas and teachers. Prologue for Julio V. Otaola. University Printer, Buenos Aires.
• 1948. Osvaldo Loudet. Spirit politics. Teachers and disciples. Buenos Aires, El Ateneo, 1948.
• 1948. Osvaldo Loudet. "El canónigo Eusebio Agüero y Amadeo Jacques: dos estampas Rectorales del Viejo Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires". In: Spirit policy: teachers and disciples. The Ateneo, Buenos Aires.
• 1947. Gaston Federico Tobal. Porteña evocations.
• 1941 and 1947. Two essays written by Enrique Larreta. Illuminated times (1941) consists of "extracts of his memoirs, girded, presurous" exposed in the conference room of the Jockey Club two years ago, and mentions in two paragraphs what meant for him the passage by the school and a significant teacher who had, Francisco Beazley, who commissioned him an investigation on Athens in Pericles times that years later would come out to relucite in his first publication, the novel Artemis. About his school education that he graduated in 1893, he wrote in that essay: "I saw the dark hour of schools. It is difficult to find out if those of my time, a bit jailers, as less, were so bad for the formation of strong and useful men as they now appear in the sentimental light of modern pedagogy. " The Orange (1947) is a collection of numbered miniassays, the 50 mentions his education "(...) In the distant times of my childhood, we were taught, both in our homes and in the same schools, the horror of lies. The liar, like the delator, were despicable beings for us. "
• 1946. Juan Probst. Juan Baltasar Maciel, the teacher of the generation of May. Buenos Aires, Instituto de Didáctica de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
• 1945. Amadeo Jacques. Writtenwith preliminary study by Juan Mantovani. Buenos Aires, Angel Estrada.
• 1940. Mantovani, Juan. Junior baccalaureate and training. Santa Fe, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
• 1940. Levene, Ricardo. The foundation of the University of Buenos Aires: its cultural life in the beginnings and the publication of the courses of its teachers. Baiocco, Buenos Aires.str
• 1937. Salvadorans, Antonino. The University of Buenos Aires, from its foundation to the fall of Rosas. University-Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, La Plata.
• 1916. Alcorta, Amancio. Secondary education. Buenos Aires, La cultura argentina, 1916. With a prologue of Felix Icasate Larios.
• 1915. Gutierrez, Juan María. Origin and development of higher public education in Buenos Aires: historical news. Edition preceded by a study by Juan B. Alberdi. La Cultura Argentina. Buenos Aires.
• 1914. José Ingenieros. The philosophical directions of Argentine culture. Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Tomo XXVII, 1914. Reissued in 1971 by Eudeba, Buenos Aires.
• 1902. Bartolomé Mitre. Arengas. Collection of Parliamentary, Political, Economic and Literary Discourses, Funeral Prayers, Commemorative Allocations, Proclamations and Speeches in Voce delivered from 1848 to 1902. Buenos Aires, La Nación Library. Three tomos.
• 1888. Piñero, Norberto. "The teaching in Buenos Aires before the foundation of the University". In: Anales de la Universidad de Buenos Airse, Tomo 3: Historia de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Printed Biedma, Buenos Aires.

Student Union

Central closing one week before the elections, November 2014.

The students are organized in a student union considered the voice of the students in the claims and internal suggestions to the organization of the College, every year a new president is elected among the candidates, each candidate is linked to a political grouping, which in turn are normally identified with external political movements.

History of the Student Union

The students have organized a student union through which they develop their own trade union demands. With a long tradition of student struggle, political activity in the CNBA was interrupted during the bloodiest years of the self-styled National Reorganization Process. Under the auspices of a clandestine student magazine, Aristocrats of Knowledge, the Center was reconstituted in 1982, taking the name of C.E.N.B.A. (Buenos Aires National Student Center). Today, this union body continues to be an emblem for the secondary student movement at the national level.

Once the military dictatorship ended, the C.E.N.B.A. It had a pluralist leadership, made up of the Intransigent Secondary Front (FSI, student branch of the Intransigent Party), the Communist Youth Federation (FJC), the Evita Peronist Youth (JP Evita) and the Franja Morada Secundarios (student branch of the Radical Civic Union).). Its first general secretaries were Gabriel Puricelli (FSI) and Francisco Arturi (FJC), in 1984, and Claudio Suárez (JP Evita) and Santiago Villalba (FSI), in 1985. In 1985 Villalba would integrate the first leadership of the Federation of Secondary Students (FES) of the Federal Capital, representing the FSI.

Among its most outstanding achievements are the impediment to the sale of the institution's sports field or the possibility that students, teachers and non-teachers could discuss the internal problems of the school, obtained through the occupation (&# 34;take") of the educational establishment in mid-2006.

In 2007, after Escoria, an independent left-wing group, won the elections for the presidency of the Center at the beginning of the year, the struggle for democratization formally began, that is, for the definitive co-government of the institution by students, teachers and non-teachers. This conflict, open from that moment, is carried out in conjunction with the Student Center of the Carlos Pellegrini Higher School of Commerce.

The 2007 elections, which would determine the presidency of the Center throughout 2008, were won by the Frente de Estudiantes en Lucha (FEL), a group at the time belonging to the Unión de Juventudes por Socialism (UJS), youth branch of the Trotskyist Workers' Party. Throughout 2008, the struggle for democratization reached a climax with a new occupation of the building, which resulted in the creation of the Resolution Council.

At the end of 2008 the Corriente Estudiantil del Buenos Aires (CEBA), another independent left-wing group, won the elections for the presidency, which is why it led the Student Center throughout of 2009. Throughout 2010, the year during which Desde Bolívar was led, a group that emerged after a division of the CEBA and with a similar ideology, a conflict developed over the unilateral removal, by the Superior Council of the University of Buenos Aires, of the then rector González Gass (related to the Authentic Socialist Party, of the South Project Movement). The students prevented the newly appointed authorities from entering the establishment for a month. The conflict came to an end when the Resolution Council of the College agreed to hold (indirect) elections for the rector, to form a short list on which the Superior Council of the University had to decide.

At the end of 2010, the Kirchnerist group La Jauretche was victorious in the elections, obtaining the presidency for the first time. It will be followed by an alternation between different groups that are in the spectrum of the left, from independent alternatives such as Desde Bolívar + La Caravana in 2011 and Consciente Colectivo in 2014, to Trotskyism headed by Oktubre (a group linked to the Unión de Juventudes por el Socialism (UJS)) in 2013 and 2015. In 2016, the Kirchnerist organization El Eternauta (made up of militants from La Cámpora and El Semillero, a secondary student branch of Nuevo Encuentro) obtained the presidency, and was elected again in 2017, being the first group in a decade to win re-election.

In November 2019, the FLAMA Student Struggle Front, led by the Oktubre group, won the elections, being the 3rd leadership of the same in a decade. It stands out as the group with the longest standing in the history of CENBA, since in 2020 it celebrated 10 years of its foundation. Oktubre's leadership was extended during 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, which made it impossible to hold the elections.

List of presidents of the Student Union since 1988:

Magazines and newspapers

Magazines and newspapers

He has also been the protagonist of numerous articles in popular newspapers and newspapers, such as:

Pyramid of May erected in 1811 in commemoration of May 25, 1810. Photo of 1867

• 1918. Angel Gallardo. "Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires: visit to the subways". In: La NaciónBuenos Aires, October 10, 1918.
• 1923. "New National College of Buenos Aires." In: The Architect. Buenos Aires, n.o 30/32, 1923.
• 1938. "The National College of Buenos Aires was 75 years old." La NaciónBuenos Aires, May 22, 1938.
• 1942. Pagés Larraya, Antonio. "Records of the old Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires". In: Revista Us, 2.a epoch, year 7, I take 18. Buenos Aires, 1942.
• 1965. Loudet, Osvaldo. "Amadeo Jacques: a great teacher." In: The PressBuenos Aires, October 3, 1965.
• 1966. Ferrero, Rodolfo G.A. "John Nielsen: The Rector." In: La NaciónBuenos Aires, November 27, 1966.
• 1972. Monner Sans, José María. "A College called "The Central." In: The PressBuenos Aires, May 7, 1972.
• 1980. Williams Alzaga, Enrique. "The historic school and a great rector." In: La NaciónBuenos Aires, June 15, 1980.
• 1983. Cosmelli Ibáñez, José Luis. "Del San Carlos al Buenos Aires (1783-1983)". In: La Nación, Buenos Aires, November 20, 1983.
• 1988. "It is 50 years old the building of the National College of Buenos Aires." In: The PressBuenos Aires, May 21, 1988.
• 1991. Zapiola de López Rivarola, Clara. "The National College of Buenos Aires. The history of an unbeatable prestige." In: Revista Criterio, year LXIV, No. 2080, Buenos Aires, October 24, 1991, Pág. 598 to 600.
• 1996. Sanguinetti, Horatio. "Women in the College." In: La NaciónBuenos Aires, January 21, 1996.
• 2001. Rouillon, Jorge. "Sanguinetti, the longest management at the National College of Buenos Aires." In: La NaciónBuenos Aires, June 5, 2001.
• 2003. Vedia, Mariano. "Today marks 140 years the National College of Buenos Aires." In: La Nación, Buenos Aires, 14 March 2003

Cinema and television

In cinema:

• 1943. Youth (based on the homonymous book of Miguel Cané). At the time he was the winner of four Silver Condor Awards among them the best film in 1944, when the famous critic Calki wrote: “Digna version of a student novel. It is of course a merit to transplant it to the screen with the required dignity.” In 2003, when she was 60 years old, she was honored and called "the son of national cinema".
• 2010. The invisible look director Diego Lerman (based on Morales Sciences of Martin Kohan. The film, whose script runs mainly within the College, could not be shot on its site.
• 2017. Symphony for Ana of directors Ernesto Ardito and Virna Molina (based on Gaby Meik's homonym book. The film was filmed at school.

On TV:

• 2014. The future is ours, documentary in 4 chapters per channel Encounter., completing 2 hours Directors Ernesto Ardito and Virna Molina. "They were students of the National Buenos Aires, the most beaten school during the last military dictatorship; they participated in the student center and formed the Union of Secondary Students (UES). They lived militancy with passion and combined it with study, love and friendship. From teenagers they dreamed of a better world, but many of them became missing young people. The future is ours brings to the present their dreams, objectives, fears and conflicts, and invites us to find continuity between those struggles and those of today." Interviewed: Adriana Slemenson, Mariana Slemenson, Haydeé García Gastelú, Vera Jarach, Eduardo Blaustein, Gabriela Alegre, Enrique Vázquez, Cecilia Schiavi, Vicky Kornblihtt, Gaby Meik, Diana Guelar, Oscar de Leone, Werner Pertot, Adriana Robles, Hugo Colaone, Valeria Hasse.

In a secondary form it is present in:

• 2013 The Secretary's prints), series of fiction whose protagonist is "a young professor of history in a prestigious secondary school", which is seen in the first chapter that is the CNBA, and that after the death of his grandfather inherits a first page of a writing by Mariano Moreno, who was the secretary of the First Board of Government in 1810. From that moment on it would be wrapped in in intrigues and an attempt to hide that writing that could change the story. Although part of the history happens in the facilities of the College, it was not rolled in its plot (except the facade) to which it tries to simulate.

Music

• The tango "Mi Colegio Buenos Aires" by Antonio Manuel Prieto
• Tiago PZK's Trap

Exclusive posts

A magazine deals exclusively with the CNBA and its alumni:

• La CampanitaAlumni Association magazine. The latest numbers are accessible online.

In addition there are:

• Promotional speeches. The promotional discourses of several generations collected and published in the CNBA web space.
• Videos of the Association of Exalmnos (AEXCNBA).
• Electronic bulletin of the Association of Students.

Two sports magazines:

• Field Game. "A magazine online with all the information of the Buenos Aires National College Tournament. "
• Metegolwith all the information about the Interdivisional Olympics of students, made by themselves.

Featured students

Nobel Prize Laureates

Politicians and lawyers

Heads of State

Members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation

Members of the National Cabinet

Governors and Heads of Government

• Aníbal Ibarra (cursed until 1976), was head of government of the city of Buenos Aires.
• Guillermo Jorge del Cioppo (promotion 1948?), mayor de facto in Buenos Aires in 1982-1983.
• Juan Balestra (Promotion 1879?), attorney and governor of Missions.
• José Luis Cantilo (went in 1883?), an Argentine politician belonging to the Radical Civic Union, near Yrigoyen.
• Francisco J. Beazley (Promotion 1882?), lawyer and politician.
• Marcelino Ugarte (promotion 1873?)
• Nicasio Oroño (promotion 1843?), Argentine jurist and politician; governor of the province of Santa Fe (1864-1868)
• Antonino Aberastain (promotion 1828?)
• Marco Avellaneda (promotion 1831?)
• Mario Sáenz (Promotion 1897?), jurist, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (1921-1923)
• Martín Rodríguez (promotion 1789?)
• Manuel Dorrego (promotion 1805?)
• Juan Gregorio de las Heras (promotion 1798?)

Senators of the Nation

• Alfredo Palacios (promotion 1896?), Socialist politician
• Felix Frías (promotion 1834?)
• Juan Bautista Justo (promotion 1883?), politician, founder of the Socialist Party

Deputies of the Nation

• Andrés "Cuervo" Larroque (Promotion 1996), politician, leader of La Cámpora, national deputy for the Front for Victory (FPV).
• Fernanda Reyes (Promotion 1996), politician, former national member of the City of Buenos Aires, and leader of the ARI Civic Coalition party.
• Claudio Lozano (Promotion 1974) of the Buenos Aires for All Party, which is part of the Progressive Front. Claudio Lozano is an economist, has occupied his banking uninterruptedly since 2003, and has a long connection with the State Workers' Association (ATE).
• Nicolas Repetto (political) (promotion 1889?), Socialist politician
• Pedro Goyena (promotion 1861?) lawyer, writer and politician
• John the Baptist Alberdi (promotion 1828?)
• Manuel Carlés (Promotion 1893?), lawyer and politician of far right
• Francisco Narciso de Laprida (promotion 1804?), lawyer and politician.
• Diego Estanislao Zavaleta (promotion 1788?)
• José Darragueira (promotion 1789?)
• Valentín Gómez (promotion 1792?), priest, politician, rector of the University of Buenos Aires.

Other lawyers

• Horacio Corti (Promotion 1983), currently the City Attorney General, until now Judge of the Chamber of Appeals in the Administrative and Tax Litigation of the City of Buenos Aires
• Julius César Otaegui (Promotion 1941?), jurist and president of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences
• Ricardo Monner Sans (promotion 1954), lawyer, defended political prisoners during the dictatorship
• Leon Carlos Arslanián (promotion 1959?), lawyer, jurist and official, notably presided over the Judgment to the Boards in 1983.
• Jorge Torlasco (Promotion 1953?), lawyer and jurist with a decisive role in 1983 in the Judgment to the Boards.
• Norberto Quantín (promotion 1956), was a prosecutor of the Nation. "Quantín was very dear among the HAV of their promotion and those who attended the Association. He was the one who participated in the capacity of a speaker giving a remarkable speech in the 50th Anniversary of the same. "
• Custodian Maturana, judge.
• Abel Cháneton (Promotion 1906?), jurist and historian
• Rodolfo Rivarola (promotion 1875? confirm), sociologist and jurist
• Pedro José Agrelo (promotion 1894?), jurisconsulto and politician.
• Alfredo Colmo (promotion 1896?), jurist
• Antonio Dellepiane (Promotion 1882?), doctor in law, teacher, historian and jurisconsult.
• José León Suárez (Promotion 1890?), jurist and diplomat
• Celia Tapias (promotion 1904), the "first woman lawyer" of Buenos Aires, the second in the country.
• Ernesto Quesada, lawyer, writer and historian
• María Eva Miljiker, lawyer, LLM Harvard school, Legal Secretary of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. Fulbright Scholarship and Fortabat Amalia Lacroze Foundation. University and graduate teacher. BAR from New York, United States.

Other politicians and activists

• Mariano Recalde (Promotion 1990), lawyer, leader of La Cámpora and president of Argentine Airlines (2007-2015).
• Cecilia Nahón (promotion 1992), leader of La Cámpora, Ambassador of Argentina to the United States during the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
• Augusto Costa (promotion 1993), economist, referent of La Cámpora, Secretary of Internal Trade during the last kirchnerist period.
• Javier Rodríguez (Promotion 1990), economist, Secretary of Coordination of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, until 2015.
• Paula Español (promotion 1993), economist, referent of La Cámpora, Undersecretariat of Internal Trade during the last kirchnerist period.
• Alejandro Vanoli (promotion 1979), president of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic during the last period of the kirchnerista.
• Miguel Pesce (promotion 1980), economist, Vice-President of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic during the last kirchnerist period. Former Secretary of Finance of the City of Buenos Aires. Former Minister of Economics of Santiago del Estero during the federal intervention in 2004.
• Carlos Weitz, former president of the National Securities Commission (CNV)
• Juan Manuel Abal Medina (father) (promotion 1963?), an active lawyer and politician in Peronism in the '70s, currently in Mexico.
• Pilar Calveiro, Ph.D. in Political Sciences currently in Mexico, her most popular work is Power and disappearance. The concentration camps in Argentina (Colihue, 1998).
• Mario Firmenich, a guerrilla terrorist, currently away from Argentine political life and armed struggle, founder of Montoneros
• Hernan Charosky (Promotion 1989). "Sociologist (UBA) and Master in Public Policy (George Washington University). It has been engaged in issues of transparency and control of corruption for more than ten years. Its main interest has always been the value of citizen participation as a tool of democratic control." Consultant for Transparency International, was Executive Director (2010-2012) of the Argentinean government.
• Ingrid Page (promotion 1986). "Sociologa (UBA) and Master in Public Policies (George Washington University). Consultant for Transparency International, was Executive Director (2010-2012) of the Argentinean government.
• Carlos Auyero, leader of the Christian Democratic Party and founder of the FrePaSo.
• Alicia Moreau de Justo (Promotion 1904), medical, political and defender of women's rights.
• José P. Tamborini (promotion 1904?), an Argentine physician and politician, a member of the Radical Civic Union and the Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union.
• Jorge Abelardo Ramos (in 1933?) creator of the political and ideological current called the National Left.
• Jorge Enea Spilimbergo (promotion 1946), founder together with Ramos of the political and ideological current known as the National Left.
• Pablo Rieznik (Promotion 1966?), leader of the Workers' Party, economist, researcher at the Gino Germani Institute and professor at the faculties of Philosophy and Letters and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. Disappeared in 1977 for his student activity, released after an international campaign for his lifelong appearance.

The Central Cloister was the scene of Eduardo Beckerman's wake. Photo of cover of the newspaper Noticias, August 24, 1974, with the heading: "On the days of the massacre of La Plata new shootings of Peronists. His companions fire Beckerman, 19, of the UES".

• Eduardo Beckerman, leader of the Union of Secondary Students killed by triple A during the government of Isabel Perón. His remains were veiled in the central cloister of the College.
• Claudio Slemenson, leader of the Union of Secondary Students disappeared and murdered during the government of Isabel Perón.
• Franca Jarach, disappeared in 1976 by the National Reorganization Process, following which her mother Vera Jarach was one of the founders of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Name the "Franca Jarach" contest of the CNBA and also the book Franca 18 years disappeared Szulanski. It's one of the characters Glorias y Tragedias en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires attributed to Raúl Aragón.
• Horacio García Gastelú, disappeared in 1976 by the National Reorganization Process, following which his mother Haydée Gastelú was one of the founders of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
• Lila and Claudio Epelbaum, two CNBA graduates disappeared during the dictatorship. With the third of his sons also disappeared, his mother Renée "Yoyi" Stopolsky of Epelbaum was one of the founders of the organization of mothers and integrated the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
• Gloria Kehoe Wilson, disappeared in 1977 by the National Reorganization Process. He had already shown talents of young writer, which gave name to the storytelling contest "Gloria Kehoe Wilson" by the Commission 'La Mujer y sus Derechos' of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH), whose selected stories were published in 1993.
• Fernando Luis Abal Medina (promotion 1965?), the founder guerrilla of Montoneros along with Ramus and Firmenich, also exalumnos, who died in 1970 in a confrontation with the police.
• Carlos Gustavo Ramus (promotion 1965?), the founder guerrilla of Montoneros along with Abal Medina and Firmenich, also exalumnos, who died in 1970 in a confrontation with the police.
• José Pablo Ventura (promotion 1968?), a student activist who integrated the leadership of Montoneros, who was murdered in 1977.
• Alberto Miguel Camps (promotion 1966?), a guerrilla who died in a clash at the siege of his house in 1977.
• María Angélica Sabelli (promotion 1968?), a guerrilla who was murdered in the Trelew massacre.
• Miguel Cané (father) (promotion 1830?)
• Florencio Varela (promotion 1825?)
• Manuel Moreno (promotion 1800?), minor brother of Mariano Moreno.
• Martiniano Molina (promotion 1990), famous cuisine chef. Actual mayor(2015) of the Quilmes party by the Cambiemos Front.
• Daniel Marx, economist

Businessmen and officials of State companies, other leaders

• Rodolfo Raúl D’Onofrio (promotion 1965), former president of the Atlético River Plate Club.
• Matías Lammens (Promotion 1998) former president of the San Lorenzo Atletico Club of Almagro current Minister of Tourism and Sports of the Nation. "The Buenos Aires not only conveys to you that of what everyone speaks: academic excellence. It gives me both pride and the fact that it's free. Freeness is one of the keys to what needs to be recovered in Argentina, not only as a value of opportunities, which is a phrase made, but as the possibility of social promotion: I am proud that my old man has not finished first grade and I am a lawyer. The Buenos Aires had a lot to make you feel part of public education and put that value into your own, that one had to defend. All of us have to return something: I was six years of my life to the best school, free." In 2019 he is the candidate for Head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires for the Front of All.
• Pablo Kleinman (in 1984), a pioneer of the Internet, entrepreneur, journalist and American politician born in Argentina. Member of the Central Committee of the Republican Party and excandidate to the United States Congress by California.
• Pablo Nogués (promotion 1896?), a civil engineer, was a leading administrator of state companies in successive governments, especially the State Railways, which under his management and in a few years passed from an important deficit to the surplus. By systematically denying a political court post, Nogués would travel daily to the facilities of the Railroads and personally check the quality of its services, controlling the traffic bulletins on a regular basis.
• Manuel Savio (Promotion 1910?), developed the steel industry in the country. Creator of SOMISA, dozens of technical schools, laboratories and fabrile plants carry their name.
• Vice Admiral Carlos Castro Madero, developed nuclear energy in the country, was president of the CNEA.
• Eduardo Elsztain (promotion 1978), entrepreneur. President of IRSA

• Marcelo Mindlin (promotion 1982), entrepreneur. President of Pampa Energía

Science, technology, medicine and mathematics

Scientists and engineers

• Mario Bunge (?), physicist and philosopher of science.
• César Agustín Fernández Garrasino (promotion 1955) Featured Argentine geologist who died in 2012.
• Mariano Levin (promotion 1969) researcher of CONICET specialized in Chagas disease
• Valentin Balbín (promotion 1869?), engineer, mathematician and teacher, mentioned in Youth.
• Juan Aníbal Domínguez (promotion 1894?), mycologist, botanist and pharmacologist.
• Felix Faustino Outes (promotion 1896?), anthropologist.
• Osvaldo Alfredo Reig (promotion 1947?), biologist and paleontologist.
• Leo Falicov (promotion 1951?), was a theoretical physicist specializing in the theory of physics of condensed matter. The library of the Balseiro Institute has its name.
• Carlos Varsavsky (promotion 1951?), physical. In his honor the Argentine Association of Astronomy awards the Varsavsky Award for the best doctoral thesis.
• Roberto Fernández Prini (promotion 1955?), chemical. He was a founder, creator and director of the Institute of Chemicals and Materials Physics, Environment and Energy (INQUIMAE), and is currently linked to the Faculty of Exact Sciences as an emeritus professor.
• Silvia Braslavsky (promotion 1960?), chemistry.
• Luis Caffarelli (promotion 1965? or previous), mathematician.
• Jorge Lapeña (promotion 1965), industrial engineer, expert consultant on energy issues. He was Secretary of Energy of the Nation and Assistant Secretary of Energy Planning (1983-1988, Chair of Dr. Raúl Alfonsín), Chairman of the Board of YPF (1987-1988), Chairman of the National Atomic Energy Commission and Board member (2000-2002), President of the Argentine Energy Institute “General Mosconi”, 1985-to date.
• José Braunstein (promotion 1967?), an anthropologist recognized for his work on the Chaco ethnic groups.
• Victor Bronstein (promotion 1970), engineer, academic, researcher and university professor, is a consultant on energy issues. He is an Electromechanical Engineer with Electronic Orientation (UBA), PhD in Social Sciences (UBA), Director of the Center for Future Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences, UBA), professor of the seminar “Petroleo, Civilization and Power” (Faculty of Social Sciences, UBA), member of the Interdisciplinary Program of the University of Buenos Aires in Sustainable Energy (PIUBAES, Secretariat of Science and Technology,BA)
• Juan José Giambiagi, physicist
• Guillermo Halberstein, engineer, critic and pedagogue
• Eduardo Arzt (promotion 1970), molecular biologist.
• Alicia Dickenstein (promotion 1972), math, vice president of the International Mathematical Union for the period 2015-2018. He published the book Mate max: math everywhere which presents mathematical problems for the youngest.
• Alberto Kornblihtt (promotion 1972), doctor in Chemistry, molecular biologist, scientific researcher
• Otto Krause, engineer and pedagogue, founder of the first technical school in Argentina
• Fernando Nottebohm, biologist, ornithologist
• Jorge Eduardo Rabinovich, biologist, ecologist
• Gustavo Sosa Escalada, writer, mathematician and Paraguayan musician
• Michelangelo Virasoro, physical
• Irene Rut Wais (promotion 1973), biologist. Académica de la Academa Argentina de Ciencias del Ambiente, fue una de las Diez Juventud Sobresalientes de la Argentina (1988), también fue profesor de biología en el CNBA.
• Mariana del Pino (promotion 1983) gold medal of his promotion, Ingeniera Agrónoma graduated from the UBA. Pionera of organic agriculture in the country and national and international reference on topics related to the cultivation of tomato.

Doctors and psychologists

• Dr. Julio González Montaner (promotion 1973). In the words of Sergio Provenzano, “He is no longer a doctor, he is now a social leader who calls on the leaders of the world for the rights of people living with HIV to be treated.”
• Dr. Sergio Luis Provenzano, exalumno y exprofessor del CNBA, current dean of the UBA Faculty of Medicine.
• Dr. Roberto N. Pradier. Present President of the National Academy of Medicine.
• Dr. Manuel Luis Martí (promotion 1954). Current Vice President of the National Academy of Medicine.
• Dr. Oscar H. Morelli (current member and former secretary-general of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Miguel A. Larguía (current member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Jorge Neira (current member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Ramón Héctor Leiguarda (current member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Daniel Stamboulian (promotion 1956), currently the largest Argentine specialist in infections, president of the Fundación Centro de Estudios Infectológica (Funcei), founder of the Pan American Association of Infectology.
• Lic. Marcelo Roffé, specialist sports psychologist in high performance. He worked with Pekerman, was called in 2013 "man after the winning mentality of the Selection." He chairs the Association of Psychology of Sport Argentina (APDA). He's written books like Psychology of the football player (1999, 2014 in 5th edition), Pressure Football, Psychology Applied to Sports (2000, corrected and expanded in the 3rd edition, to 2014 in 4th edition and translated into Japanese) and My Son the Champion, the pressures of the Fathers and the Environment (2003, 2014 in 5th edition).
• Dr. José Mordoh. Senior Researcher at Conicet. Precursor of the use of Immunotherapy in cancer. Creator of Master's Degree in Medical Molecular Biology, UBA and the FUCA Cancer Foundation.
• Guillermo Rawson (promotion 1839), doctor, hygienist and statesman. Minister of the Interior in 1862. The Rawson hospital is named after him.
• Juan Antonio Argerich (Promotion 1858?), about the College wrote "Aula Accords" in Articles and Addresses (1906, Coni, Buenos Aires) classroom agreements. In: Articles and Addresses. Coni, Buenos Aires and is remembered in Memories of the old Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires by Federico Tobal.
• Ignacio Pirovano (promotion 1862?), outstanding surgeon, "father of Argentine surgery".
• Dr. Federico R. Cuñado (promotion 1868), a naval doctor who acted as a first-class surgeon in the Py Expedition and in the Conquest of the Desert, reaching the rank of captain of the frigate of the Argentine Republic Navy in 1890.
• Luis Güemes (promotion 1873?)
• Baldomero Sommer (Promotion 1875?), a pioneer physician of dermatology in Argentina and renowned hygienist, founder of the Chair of Dermatology at the University of Buenos Aires. The Sommer Baldomero Hospital for leprosy patients bears its name.
• Luis Agote (promotion 1886), physician and researcher, performed the first successful blood transfusions in 1914. He was also a tireless teacher, and was a deputy and senator of Argentina, in those positions he was the author of laws such as the creation of the National University of the Litoral and the creation of the National Patronate of Abandoned and Offenders Minors, as far as CNBA is concerned, he was the author of the law that annexed him to the University of Buenos Aires.
• Alejandro Korn (promotion 1878?), doctor, psychiatrist, one of the "5 sages of La Plata".
• José Ingenieros (promotion 1892?), pharmacist who received the medical degree with his thesis Simulation in the struggle for lifeThe sequel Simulation of madness, published in book, was awarded in 1903 the National Academy of Medicine. His sociological theories had great influence on the evolution of Argentine intellectual thought in the areas of criminology and psychiatry, with essays like The Middle Man. Appreciated as a teacher, in 1918 he was elected deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, he was also president of the Argentine Medical Society.
• Enrique Tornú (promotion 1883?)
• Enrique Corbellini (promotion 1890?)
• Emilio Loudet (promotion 1890?)
• Pedro Escudero (promotion 1900...?), doctor, the day of his birth is celebrated the "day of the nutritionist".
• Salvador Mazza (promotion 1902), a doctor who had studied Chagas' disease throughout his life, a disease that has a greater impact on the less wealthy population and was not part of the usual recognitions in the medical environment despite the number of people affected. His research led him to be honored in the name of the disease, which is now known as Chagas-Mazza Disease. His biography is translated into the film Fire houses 1995
• Mariano Castex (promotion 1904?)
• Aníbal Ponce (promotion 1916?), without having completed his studies of Medicine, he devoted himself to research in psychology being one of the pioneers of that discipline in Argentina. He was attached to another graduate, José Ingenieros, with whom he co-founded the Revista de Filosofía to which he led after the death of the last. He was a well-known Marxist and millied in the Communist Party of Argentina, which brought him no few drawbacks. In 1935 he founded the Association of Intellectuals, Artists, Journalists and Writers (AIAPE), of which he was his first president.
• Florencio Escardó (promotion 1922), a pediatric doctor, was dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1958 and then vice-rector of the University of Buenos Aires, when he converted the CNBA and Carlos Pellegrini schools into mixed. It was the one who managed to get the mothers interned with the pediatric patients: "What can be revolutionary to think that mothers should be with their sick children? It took me thirty-two years to get the mothers to enter the Hall at the Children's Hospital—treinta and two years!— It's the only thing I'm proud of in life." He also stood out as a writer of teaching texts for parents, humor (a book for which he won the Konex Prize in Platinum in 1984 and in which he used to sign with his pseudonym Piolín de Macramé) and varied literature. He was president of the SADE (Argentine Society of Writers). About CNBA wrote The House of Ours, he also wrote the script for the success of La Cuna Vacía (1949) that translates the life and vocation of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez.
• Dr. Maximum Castro (member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Pedro Benedit (member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Gregorio Piñero (member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Juan Aníbal Domínguez (member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez
• Dr. Gustavo Omar Barbeito (member of the National Academy of Medicine, a neurosurgeon of vocation specialized in vascular pathology and reference in the matter, Dr. Barbeito holds the post of chief of division of Htal. Cosme Argerich, which under his tutela has become a reference centre worldwide in neurosurgery)
• Dr. Bernardino Maraini (member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Marcelo Viñas (member of the National Academy of Medicine)
• Dr. Alberto Peralta Ramos (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1925)
• Dr. Carlos Bonorino Udaondo (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1927)
• Dr. Alois Bachman (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1927)
• Dr. Juan María Obarrio (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1929)
• Dr. Pedro de Elizalde (son of Rufino de Elizalde) (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1937)
• Dr. Pedro I. Elizalde (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1938)
• Dr. Nicanor Palacios Costa (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1943)
• Dr. Mario Justo del Carril (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1945)
• Dr. Tiburcio Padilla (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1949)
• Dr. Juan Carlos Ahumada (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1949)
• Dr. Osvaldo Loudet (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1955)
• Dr. Luis Manuel Pérez (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1956)
• Dr. Alfredo Pavlovsky (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1956)
• Dr. Norberto Quirno (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1968)
• Dr. Horacio Rodríguez Castells (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1972)
• Dr. Pedro H. Magnín (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1986)
• Dr. Roberto A. Votta (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1987)
• Dr. Roberto M. Arana (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1988)
• Dr. Rómulo L. Cabrini (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1989)
• Dr. Alfredo E. Larguía (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1996)
• Dr. Armando Mendizábal (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2001)
• Dr. Juan Aquiles Roncoroni (member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2001

Historians, sociologists and anthropologists

• Ricardo Levene (promotion 1903?), historian
• Tulio Halperin Donghi, historian, university reformist (1955-1966), (UBA; University of Berkeley, UTDT)
• Alberto Ferrari Etcheberry (promotion 1956).
• Fernando Devoto (Promotion 1967), historian, Konex Award 2004 for his merits in History. Some of his books are: History of Immigration in Argentina (2003) Nationalism, Fascism and Traditionalism in Modern Argentina (2002).
• Orlando Sconza (promotion 1978?), historian
• Juan Eugenio Corradi (promotion 1961). Professor of Sociology at the New York University, where he was also Dean of the Postgraduate School.
• Mario Rabey, anthropologist and protagonist of the counterculture of the '60s

Journalists

• Mariel Fitzpatrick (promotion 1986), a leading journalist.
• Augustine de Vedia (promotion 1861?), outstanding journalist.
• Mario Wainfeld (promotion 1966), today featured columnist of Page/12.
• Pepe Eliaschev (promotion 1964, f.2014), journalist and writer, Personality Featured of the city of Buenos Aires.

Pepe Eliaschev.

Rolando Hanglin, journalist and nudist.

• Rolando Hanglin, journalist and nudist, almost 30 years ago leading a radio program in which a featured segment, “El cat y el zorro”, is shared with his junior Mario Mactas.
• Mario Mactas, journalist. Konex 2007 Award: Radial. "He sleeps a prose of strange beauty and personality, carries high audience radio programs, television columns and programs that range from portrait to scientific and agrarian information, which points to a comfortably eclectic talent." He wrote several books that were editorial successes: Rabid monologues, The Argentinean dwarf, The cat and the fox (with another graduate, Rolando Hanglin), The psychoanalyst lover, The Perversions of Francisco Umbral and As the legs of my beloved tremble. Personality Featured of the city of Buenos Aires.
• Eduardo Anguita, journalist
• Débora Pérez Volpin (promotion 1986), journalist and television presenter
• Juan Pablo Varsky, sports journalist
• Pablo Cormick, sports journalist
• Horacio Verbitsky, journalist
• Sergio Levinsky, a sports journalist. He received the first National Prize for Journalism and Health from the Merck Laboratory, Sharpe & Dohme (1996), the "Golden Tour" of the Manzana de las Luces Foundation (2005). He wrote several books among which he is Maradona, rebel with cause with 8 editions in several countries.
• Jorge Dorio, journalist, Juvenilia Ediciones published the book The Infamed Verba where he rescues some journalistic texts from his pen.
• Martín Caparrós (promoción 1973), writer and also journalist, Personalidad Featured de la Cultura de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.
• Willy Kohan
• Mario Monteverde (promotion 1952?, deceased 2007)
• Enrique Raab (went in 1945?, did not graduate, arrested-disappeared in 1977)
• Roberto Payró (promotion 1885?), considered the first Argentine war correspondent.
• Martin Granovsky (Promotion 1973), journalist and writer, former director of the TELAM agency, twice winner of the King of Spain Prize.
• Berto González Montaner (Promotion 1974), journalist and writer, head responsible for the Architecture Supplement of Clarín since 1994, columnist of architecture and inspiring numerous publications in the field of construction.

Educators

• Antonio Sáenz, first rector of the University of Buenos Aires in 1821.
• María Teresa Ferrari (promotion 1904), a physician and defender of women's rights, "the first Argentine university teacher".
• Luis José de Chorroarín
• Damaso Antonio Larrañaga, The Catholic University of Uruguay bears its name.
• Roberto Giusti, secondary educator in letters.
• Horacio Sanguinetti (promotion 1953, gold medal), the longest rectory of CNBA, with 23 years of management.
• Nicolás Barrios Lynch, educator and founder of Argentine Rural Libraries.
• Cecilia Braslavsky, educator, director of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education 2000-2005
• Lucas Potenze, a former student and professor of history at the College, was the first rector of the National College of Ushuaia, inaugurated in 1994 as a copy institution of the CNBA and sponsored by it.
• Leonardo Moledo (promotion 1965), a mathematician considered "the first journalist scientist", was director of the Planetarium.
• Pablo Jacovkis, mathematician, was Dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.
• Gastón O'Donnell, attorney, currently rector of the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES)
• Horacio O'Donnell
• Pedro Simoncini
• Jorge Bengolea Zapata. Professor of Maritime Law at the universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata and author of the General Theory of Law of Navigation, of which the philosopher Carlos Cossio estimated that "it could mean a new chapter of legal science". He was one of the founders of the CNBA Association of Exalmnos

Ecclesiastics

• Jorge Casaretto (promotion 1954), bishop emeritus of San Isidro and currently in charge of the diocese of Merlo-Moreno.
• Carlos Mugica (promotion 1948?), third world priest, killed by Triple A in 1974.
• Vicente Faustino Zazpe (promotion 1938?), archbishop of the archdiocese of Santa Fe until his death in 1984.
• Santiago Figueredo (promotion 1799?), of important participation in politics even in the events of 1810, and rector of the University of Buenos Aires.

Cinema, theater and television

• Manuel Antin (promotion 1946), filmmaker, made 12 fiction films between 1960 and 1982, among which stand out The odd figure and Second Shadow. He was appointed director of the National Institute for Film and Audiovisual Arts during the administration of Raúl Alfonsín in 1983. He is currently rector of the University of Cinema, academy of university studies he founded in 1991. He received numerous awards, in 2011 he received the Silver Condor to the Trayectoria, of the Association of Film Chronicles of Argentina
• Juan Esteban Buono Repetto (Promotion 1996), current vice president of the National Institute for Film and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA)
• Fabián Bielinsky (Promotion 1977?), film director, directed the acclaimed Nueve Reinas (2000) and El aura (2005), before suddenly dying of a heart attack.
• Alejandro Montalbán (Promotion 1982), was director of the television channel of the city of Buenos Aires, Open City, participates in the artistic direction of award-winning television programs as Borges by Piglia that won the Martin Fierro to the cultural/educational program (2014).
• Ingrid Pelicori (Promotion 1974), actress and psychologist.
• Diego Peretti (promotion 1980), actor and psychiatrist.
• Diego Corsini (Promotion 1999), was director, producer and screenwriter Alone in the city (2011) produced other films like Together forever (2011), The dirty saints (2010), The Tigra, Chaco (2009).
• Maximiliano Gerscovich, his first opera he was a screenwriter and director, Stephanie (2005), starring Birabent and Fandiño, is available online.
• Juan Pablo Labonia, director, ENERC graduate.
• Marcelo Vernengo, director
• Nicolas Entel, film director
• Lupe Pérez García, cineasta
• Maria Abadi, actress
• Jorge Alvarez, editor and producer
• Ana Katz, film director
• Cecilia Miljiker, filmmaker.
• Bruno Stagnaro, filmmaker
• Juan Taratuto, filmmaker
• Pablo Chehebar (promotion 1994), filmmaker. Among his works are "El Crazy Che" and "Castores: The Invasion of the End of the World."
• Juan Coulasso, actor, teacher and theatre director, among his works is Cinthia endless, play of theater he led and for which he was awarded at the 2013 Youth Art Biennial. He had started his career as an actor in 1995 within the Buenos Aires National Theatre Group.
• Tatiana Cotliar (Promotion 2006?) model

Athletes

• Victorio Spinetto (promotion 1929?), Argentine player and coach.
• Ezequiel Castillo (promotion 1985?), a football player, is known more in Spain because he did most of the race there (between 21 and 33 years).
• Juan Fernández Di Alessio (promotion 1993?), football player.
• Pietro Di Martino (Promotion 2015), Sgrimist

Art and architecture

Plastic arts and visual arts

• Ernesto de la Cárcova (Promotion 1884?), a realistic Argentine painter and the first director of the National Academy of Fine Arts.
• Florencio Molina Campos (promotion 1909?), gauchesca theme painter.
• Rogelio Yrurtia (promotion 1897?), sculptor, one of the most outstanding in Argentina.
• Roberto Aizenberg (promotion 1946?), painter
• Ernesto Deira, painter
• Damián Bayón (promotion 1934), art critic and art historian.
• José Emilio Burucúa (promotion 1963), member of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Konex de Platino (2014).
• Cristina Schiavi (promotion 1972) Konex Award 2002 in Visual Arts, diploma to merit in the category: Digital Art.

Architecture

• Mario Roberto Álvarez (promotion 1931), architect. "Mario Roberto Álvarez was one of the main collaborators of the Association [of Exalmnos], being also one of the oldest associates that formed the entity. "
• César V. Janello, architect.
• Guillermo González Ruiz (promotion 1955), architect and graphic designer.

Photographers

• Marcelo Brodsky, photographer, "with a work that springs from a real and deep wound, his work Good memory (1997-2009) corresponds to several photographic essays focused on the effects of state terrorism in Argentina." The work was recorded in the form of a book, commented in the section of Cultural References because part of it takes place in the College.
• Eduardo Longoni, photographer, "touched him to live his adolescence in the convulsing decade of the 1970s in Argentina: he grew up among the classrooms of the Buenos Aires National College and the mass marches to Plaza de Mayo. (...) Named Featured Personality of Culture, in recognition of his trajectory and "to the penetrating and honest look that prints his images, and that brings us back and again the most significant and central moments of our history". They refer to their photos on the rounds of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, which show us the repression at the time of the military dictatorship, the carapinated uprisings, the attacks on the Embassy of Israel and the AMIA, and the crisis of 2001 or the hand of God of Maradona, all times that helped to forge the history of a country: Argentina. "

Cartoonists

• Lino Palacio (Promotion 1921?)
• Kalondi (Héctor Compaired) architect, industrial designer, cartoonist and humorist.
• Caloi, he arrived until 4th year, he would be fifth and sixth in the Admiral Brown National College of Adrogué. This is how Horacio Sanguinetti recalls: "My father, Florentino Sanguinetti, a teacher for 40 years and rector for 30 months, had a lousy student who did not exceed the fourth year: Caloi. He drew. As my father, very beloved and feared, was expected to arrive, a pretty chaotic classroom, someone camped his arrival. But once he got distracted and the teacher came in surprise. Caloi had drawn a Quixote on the board, and did not erase it. My father stumbled: Who drew that Quixote? Everyone kept quiet, but they started coding the author to confess, what he did at last. He's got a 10, my father barked. It was the only 10 that Caloi got in his school run. He always told it with pride."
• Repeat, cartoonist and humorist.
• Rudy, humorist and writer.
• Daniel Paz (promotion 1977), graphic humorist.
• Lino Palacio (Promotion 1921?)
• Nik (Cristian Dzwonik), historietist, cartoonist, graphic designer.
• Delius (María Delia Lozupone, promotion 1992) drawing and historietist.

Musicians

• Daniel Freiberg (Promotion 1974) Composer, pianist, fixer and producer. Winner of four Latin Grammy Awards. His concert "Latin American Chronicles" is played by the best orchestras on the planet with soloists like Pacho Flores, Andy Miles, Mariano Rey and Paquito D'Rivera, among others. https://www.danielfreiberg.com/
• Sergio Siminovich (promotion 1963), orchestra director.
• Claudia Brant, music, composer, winner of several Grammy Awards.
• Atilio Stampone (promotion 1944?), tango musician.
• Claudio Gabis (promotion 1967), musician, composer and pedagogue, founder of the legendary national rock band Manal.
• Pedro Pujó (former partner of Claudio Gabis at the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires), founded the independent record label Mandioca.
• Gabriel Rivano (promotion 1976), bandoneonist. Also footballer and economist, with the bandoneon has traveled the world.
• Gabriel Senanes (promotion 1973) (registration name, Gabriel Grinberg), composer, orchestra director, journalist and doctor. Former Director General and Artist of the Teatro Colón, former director of Music of the City of Buenos Aires, composer of classical and popular music, of cinema, theater and television and with a vast and award-winning local and international discography.
• Lalo Schifrin, musician (registration name Boris Claudio Schifrin)
• Mariana Falco
• Manuel Rodríguez Riva, Lautaro Matute, Nicolás Rallis and Nahuel Carfi, former members of the College, in 2013 won the Gardel Award for the best instrumental-fusion-world music album with their group Ensamble Chancho a Cuerda.
• Ignacio Rodríguez (promotion 1998), Marcelo Blanco (promotion 1998), Liza Casullo (promotion 1997), members of Doristhe first two too Onda Vagathe third also solo artist
• Andy Chango, a rumor.
• Alberto Williams (Promotion 1880?), the most prolific classical music composer in America.

Writers

• José Luis Moure (promotion 1967), current president of the Argentine Academy of Letters.
• Ana María Shua (promotion 1968), writer.
• Alberto Manguel (promotion 1966), writer, bibliophile, journalist, essayist
• Marcelo Cohen, writer, Konex Prize 2004 in novel for the quinquennium 1999 - 2003. Among his works of creation are the novels The absolute ear, The Will of O’Jaral and Where I wasn't, the stories collected in The end of the same and Waters and volume of trials Really fantastic!. He led the Shakespeare collection by writers, co-directed with Graciela Speranza the arts and lyrics magazine Another part, in Barcelona he was editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine El Viejo Topo.
• Martin Kohan (promotion 1985?), Argentine writer. Professor of Literary Theory
• Inés Fernández Moreno (promotion 1965?), Argentine writer, prize Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Hija de César y nieta de Baldomero Fernández Moreno.
• Daniel Samoilovich (promotion 1967) poet and editor. Ex-Director of the Journal of Poetry
• Esteban de Luca (promotion 1804?), a military and poet who collected what lived in patriotic chronicles of the time, called "the poet and the gunpowder" by current critic Alberto Blasi.

When the Florida street was launched in Marcelo T. de Alvear, at the foot of this monument to Esteban Echeverría, a memorial plaque of the CNBA is read: "The National College central house to the poet, sociologist, educator and tribune in the dogma of May", and a plaque that names the "Juvenilia parazoleta" in homage to Miguel Cané.

• Juan Cruz Varela (promotion 1812?) brother of the unit leader Florencio Varela.
• Esteban Echeverría (Promotion 1823?), generation of 37.
• Juan María Gutiérrez (promotion 1827?)
• Florencio Balcarce (promotion 1836?) died 24 years.
• José Mármol (carried until 1838, where he was imprisoned). Writer of very widespread poetic works, his political affiliation contrary to Rosas has validated persecution and exile. Many of his works, like the well-known novel AmaliaIt contains strong political complaints novel. It says at first Amaliaas an explanation: "Most of the historical characters of this novel still exist, and it occupies the political or social position that at the time of the events to be read. But the author, by an calculated fiction, assumes that he writes his work with some generations from between him and those. And this is why the reader will never find the present times employed when talking about Rosas, her family, her ministers, etc. The author has believed that such a system suited both to the best clarity of the narrative, as to the future of the work, intended to be read, as everything that is written, good or bad, concerning the dramatic era of the Argentine dictatorship, for the generations to come; with whom then the system adopted here will be perfectly harmonized, to describe in a retrospective way characters who live today. "
• Eugenio Cambaceres (promotion 1861), a writer of very popular naturalist novels in his time but rejected for many years by literary circles for being "a chismoso narrator", his first work "equiparable with those pornographic works that devour in the mystery of common dormitories teenagers locked between four walls", a narrator that "everyone reads to the scenery", the National In the blood (1887) on an ambitious son of Italians in search of the social promotion that would pass through his classrooms. His most popular novel was No course. He himself, the son of immigrants, but economically well-off, briefly dedicated himself to political life, to which he resigned after his dew by promoting ideas to the detriment of his own party, such as the "pure" suffrage and the Church-State separation.
• Lucio Vicente López (promotion 1866?), born within a patriotic family of which the political leaders of the country were extracted at that time, and in opposition to the growing immigration and voice of the working class claiming their political place, was one of the protagonists of the generation of the 80 patrician politicians who assumed all the positions, directed the country under the paradigm that the rest of the population did not have enough education. He died in a duel, to which he was challenged by the one who was the target of his allegations of corruption in a certain distribution of land, in 1894, his last words when he was dying were "I will die with the conviction that I have been one of the most honored men in my country. I have raised resistance... but they never came from the side of the good." In the '80s he wrote some books, The Great Village, "Costumbres Bonaerenses" of 1884, dedicated to his friend and also incipient writer Miguel Cané, deals with the changes that he saw Buenos Aires suffer and its inhabitants since childhood and is considered the founding work of the Argentine novel.
• Miguel Cané (promotion 1868), a prolific official born in the bosom of those who would form the generation of the 80 already mentioned, traveled along with the country an era that would lead to a change of paradigm, represented in the sanction of the law Sáenz Peña in 1912 of the secret, universal and obligatory vote (in this way you can access the introduction that he wrote of the book of Saénz Peña in 1905, American public law. Valued as a writer, he immortalized his passage through the National classrooms in the student novel Youth (1884), a classic of Argentine literature.

Caricature of Rafael Obligado by Cao.

• Rafael Obligado (Promotion 1869?), writer
• Marco Denevi (promotion 1940?), writer
• Manuel Podesta (promotion 1871), a doctor and writer, is considered with others of his time (such as Cambaceres) one of the founders of the Argentine naturalist novel. Formed and also teaching in mental illnesses, his first novel, the most popular and almost the only, Irresponsible, was treated more than as a literary work as a strategy to expose his thesis, adhering to the Italian school (but not to the French) that the irresponsible It is a brain deterioration with a genetic basis, on a protagonist who refuses to give him a name throughout the work. The first chapter called "Saque you another bolilla", runs in the classrooms of which he was a student.
• Martin García Mérou (promotion1880?), was a poet, novelist and essayist, but it was his valuable literary criticisms that made him recognized, a task limited by his status as a diplomat and politician. Among his works are Books and authors (1886, which brings together literary criticisms of contemporary authors including the ignored Cambaceres, who by this purpose wrote a letter in 1885), Essay on Echeverría (1894, on the author of "El Matadero" of 1840, considered the first Argentine author) among many other recognized works of criticism. She died young, at age 43.
• Calixto Oyuela (Promotion 1875?), writer.
• Belisario Roldán (promotion 1888?), writer and politician

Macedonio Fernández.

• Macedonio Fernández (promotion 1892?), writer.
• Juan Pablo Echagüe (Promotion 1893?), writer and well-known theater critic.
• Manuel Baldomero Ugarte (Promotion 1893?), writer, diplomat and socialist politician. Latin American thinker.
• Enrique Larreta (promotion 1893?), from his passionate research of the Spain of the Middle Ages, several literary works were derived, the best known was The Glory of Don Ramiro "a life in the days of Felipe Segundo", with all the characteristics of modernism in Spanish literature: lyric and aristocratic, had very good acceptance and was translated into several languages. "In the portrait that Ignacio Zuloaga made to him in 1912, Enrique Larreta appears in the foreground, sitting in a rock; his expression is acquitted and dreaming; it is strung in black cape; everything in it indicates style and aristocracy; and, in the bottom, the pewter and livid Avila, under a sky where threatening clouds prenuncian the storm. His house is today the Museum of Spanish Art Enrique Larreta.
• Ada María Elflein (promotion 1898), one of the first female graduates. Educator, journalist and writer, published historical accounts, traditionalists, and was one of the first Argentine writers of children's stories.
• Manuel Gálvez (Promotion 1900?)
• Ricardo Rojas (Promotion 1900?), was also rector of the University.
• Baldomero Fernández Moreno (promotion 1903, when it was called the Central National College), a rural poet and doctor whose best-known poem is Setenta balconies and no flower. He was the first director of the Writers Society, founded in 1925 and generating core of the current Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE) and received numerous awards in life for his poetry, although he also did some prose work. "Its poetry, universal and profoundly national at the same time, has immortalized the aesthetics of the porteños neighborhoods and the warm placidity of the provinces and their rural characteristics." In relation to the College wrote the He chose the old Central National.
• Ricardo Güiraldes (Promotion 1904?), a writer born in his father's stay and moved early to the city, in Buenos Aires he related to the authors who published in the magazine Martin Fierro (in homage to the successful homonymous novel), his best-known work would be Second Shadow (1926, available on the internet), which, with an idealized, heroic and almost mythical protagonist, would move according to some critics to the most aplombed and realistic Martin Fierro (1872) as the masterpiece of the Gauchesca literature. After his death his home stay was conditioned as the Ricardo Güiraldes Museum, a gauchesca theme museum.
• Carlos Obligado (Promotion 1907?), was an Argentine poet, critic and writer, known author of the patriotic poem "Marcha de las Malvinas".
• Álvaro Yunque (Promotion 1907?). He led along with others the group of so-called social writers, integrating the Boedo Group.
• Gregorio de Laferrère (Promotion 1935?), playwright and political writer
• Juan Carlos Ferrari (Promotion 1935?), playwright writer and doctor
• Alberto Vanasco (Promotion 1944?), writer
• Juan Gelman (promotion 1948?), "A committed writer and journalist, chose poetry as a form of militancy. His work was recognized with the Miguel de Cervantes Award and other awards. In 1976, during the last military dictatorship, their children were kidnapped. Fervent advocate of his ideals, fought his whole life for justice. "
• Rodolfo Alonso (Promotion 1952?), writer
• Abel Posse (Promotion 1952?), writer and diplomat.
• Horacio Salas (promotion 1954), poet and essayist. Among his poetry books are outstanding Time Memory, Corruption, Occupational Gages, Personal Issues and Dar again. He is also author of the essays "The Poetry of Buenos Aires", "The poetic generation of 60", "Borges, a biography", "El Centenario", "Homero Manzi and his time", "El tango". Among many distinctions, he received the National Literary Critics Award, the Municipal Poetry Prize, the National Rehearsal Prize and the Konex Prize. The French government told him with the order of Knight of Arts and Letters and, in 2001, was declared by the Legislature "Citizen Ilustre of the City of Buenos Aires".
• Enrique Lynch (promotion 1966?), writer, teacher
• Daniel Samoilovich (promotion 1967?), poet and translator
• Ramón Gómez Masía (promotion? passed away in 1944), author of plays and highlighted as a film screenwriter.
• Jorge Guillermo Borges (promotion 1892?), father of Jorge Luis Borges.

Military

• Mario Luis Olezza (promotion 1947?), a military aviator who made the First Transpolar Transcontinental Flight. In 1965 it reached the McMurdo base in the eastern hemisphere of the South Pole, the flight entered the ephemeris of world aviation. He was President of Aeroclub Argentino, poet, writer, journalist, and director of Radio Nacional.
• Clodomiro Urtubey (promotion 1858), asdore of the Argentine Navy, creator of the Naval School of 1872.
• Mariano Necochea (promotion 1810?)
• Pedro Timote, a military of Argentine cavalry.
• Sunday French (promotion 1792?)
• Tomás Guido (promotion 1806?)
• Dominguito Fidel Sarmiento (promotion 1863?), son of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

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