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THE UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY IN GALICIA 515projected institute at Cracow did not implement the law of 1922 or thepromises made to the Allies. Concurrently, faculty of the PragueUkrainian Free University, the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute inPrague, and the Agricultural Academy in Podëbrady met with representativesof the Curatoria of the Clandestine University and pledgedcontinued support for that institution. 38Meantime, within the Polish government there was an attempt tosabotage the negotiations with the Galician Ukrainians. An offer tocreate a Ukrainian university in Luts'k, in Volhynia, was made toemigre scholars from the Eastern Ukraine. The offer was notentertained seriously, but it illustrated the lack of goodwill amongsome Poles. The regime's openly discriminatory policies also discreditedthe Ukrainian faculty's attempts to meet the Polish governmenthalf-way.The Polish press reflected a whole gamut of opinions. A fair numberof newspapers expressed consternation that the university in Lviv hadnot been formally drawn into the negotiations from the outset. OtherPoles objected to the financial aid that the Ukrainian community,including the villages, continued to provide to the Clandestine University.39 Such articles exacerbated the climate of national hostility.Some intellectuals tried to mollify the situation. In a long articlewhich ran in Dilo from October 10 through 12, the Ukrainian historianStefan Tomashivs'kyi tried to garner popular support for theprojected commission. He gave reasons why Ukrainians should goalong with the plan for the time being. Criticizing his countrymen forviewing the university issue primarily from a political angle, he arguedthat moral and material issues transcending politics were involved.Tomashivs'kyi reduced the issue to two questions: (1) Do Ukrainiansin Galicia need a university? (2) Where should it be located? Theresponse to the first was indisputable. There were two answers to thesecond: the Ukrainians insisted on Lviv, and the Poles proposed aprovisional university in Cracow which would later be moved to Lviv.Although the Ukrainians' scepticism over the latter was justifiable,Tomashivs'kyi did not preclude a workable solution. But the tone ofhis reasoned and well structured article was bittersweet, and it concludedwith a quotation from Romain Rolland: "Human reason matterslittle, when endemic passions hover over the nation."38Mudryi, Ukrains'kyi universytet, pp. 46-47.39See, for instance, Gazeta Poranna, 22 September 1924; and IllustrowanyKurier Codzienny, 1 November 1924.