Stories of Paraná - Cunning student

Stories of Paraná - Cunning student

Wiles student
Wilson Buoy

We all know the immense financial and administrative Vitor Amaral and Nile Cairo faced up to the establishment of our first university to December 19, 1912, the realization of a dream Rock Pigeon.
Installed, touch the box, a modest townhouse Commander Araújo Street, No. 42, in downtown Curitiba, living rooms, bedrooms and hallways transformed from night to day in laboratories, offices and classrooms, libraries, facing disbelief and gossip many and maliciously nicknamed "Wickedness" by intolerant and jealous, their classes would start March 24, 1913, with the already considerable number of ninety-seven students.
Reached the year 1914 and students, poorly accommodated like sardines, dreamed the sooner occupy the new premises of the University of Praça Santos Andrade.
Victor and Nilo-mu wanted to give up the building sheepish, but amid a solemn act.
But not so thought the estudantada and before the standoff, devise a stratagem that would work.
Simulate a principle of fire in the back of the old house.
The flames caused immediately a general alarm, and the presence of onlookers crowding emergency personnel from the Fire Department.
This panic situation take advantage of the university to remove furniture, chairs, scattering them on the sidewalk.
Thus, with the first stage due, depart for the realization of the ultimate goal: shipping this furniture.
And how was cute and comical to see the guys, laughing and joking, cross the Praça General Osório and street parade through Fifteen, load the back desks, chairs, blackboards, to the lobby of the basement of the new University.
Dirceu de Lacerda in wistful interview, tells us two were the leaders of this unusual move, both segundaristas Law, Oscar Martins Gomes, later one of our greatest jurists of professional competence and professor at the same institution of higher learning, Private International Law, and Tasso da Silveira, the years become one of the greatest poets of our Paraná.
Vitor Amaral initially did not approve the wiles of his disciples.
But soon change his opinion.
Aware that sooner or later the change would have to be performed and that the University always in deficit, would not have the financial resources to reimburse the carrier, eventually finds that the act of rebelliousness of youth studious off after all , an action worthy and generous and succeeded his goal without pay nothing.
Surely your students you would not charge the reel ...

Wilson Ring, Curitiba, is president of the Brazilian Society of Medical Writers.


Source: Stories of the Paraná, Brasil.