THE REFORM FAR FROM THE REFORM IN THE PHISICALMATEMATICAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF THE NULP: RICARDO GANS AND HIS AMBIVALENCES, 1918-1921.

Abstract

In this paper we will analize documentation from the Phisics Department of the Nacional University of La Plata
with the objetive of study the attitudes, statements and visions of thePhisics Institute`s director, Ricardo Gans,
respect of the Univeritary Reform´s events in the city of La Plata. It will be provided a context and it will be
demostrated that Gans, far from beeing a anti-reformism, participated, from a conservative point of view, in a
larger discution about what must be reformated and why.