La Facultad de Veterinaria de Madrid entre Embajadores y Puerta de Hierro (10 años en la Facultad de Derecho de la Ciudad Universitaria: 1958-1968)

Résumé

The students that dropped in Madrid in order to study Veterinary Medicine between the years 1957 and 1967 did not have a proper school building. They had to begin Biology classes at 8:00 am in Law school classroom 18; then they had to go to Anatomic dissections to the “Puerta de Hierro” area and other practical classes were to be followed either in the Animal Biology Patronage at “Embajadores” street or either in the National Research Council at “Serrano” street. This study aims the clarification of the headquarters of the Veterinary Faculty along 10 years. Taking as study base the university guides between 1955 and 1970 we will comment, not only the building movements but also the study plans, number of students and teachers, and academic taxes. Even if the movement towards Law school classrooms was done in the course 1957-58, it is not until 1959 when the university guide describes this teaching change of location. The 1960-61 university guide describes, in the veterinary school section, the following: “(…) provisionally develops its teaching in Law school classrooms of the University Campus”. In the 1961-62 university guide and in relation to the veterinary library, it can read: “Set up provisionally (…) as it has been moved in 1957 from the ancient “Embajadores” Veterinary School to the present location”. We have found our classroom 18 that still preserves the old wooden table. We have also found our library-classroom, which is in the present time occupied by a cultural association of Law School, Arckham.