ABSTRACT
In 1880, for the first time in the history of academia in Romania, a student protest movement took place, in the form of young men's refusal to attend classes. It was a strike against the rector of University of Iasi and against some peculiarities in the local system of higher education. In 1878, Constantin Mille enrolled at the University of Iasi. At that time, he was already quite resentful of professors, Church, or any kind of social hierarchy, and he immediately showed his interest in nihilist literature. The average student at the University of Iasi during the period of its foundation was a person who already had a job, but who dedicated part of his spare time to higher education. In 1879, the Romanian socialist congress was organised in Iasi. On the proposal of Ioan Nadejde, the chairman of student club, the congress decided to focus their propaganda on pupils and students as being the future intellectuals of the country.
