| Summary: | The University Reform movement, initiated in Argentina from the student mobilization at the National University of Córdoba in 1918 implied, among its main consequences, student participation in the houses of higher studies’ governing bodies and the political and intellectual prominence of university youths in that period. These changes accompanied others that were developing in the national political scene with the implementation of the first democratic electoral experience, after the sanctioning of universal male suffrage in 1912, which for the first time would be secret and compulsory. With the aim of analyzing student associations’ participation in the University democratic experience and its forms of public intervention, this article takes as its object of study the forms of sociability in student centers at the University of Buenos Aires. In the first decades of the 20th century, this university stood out for concentrating more than half of the student population nationwide. This article specifically reconstructs the practices and limitations by which the centers assumed student representation as a union and sought to participate actively in the university governing body and in the public sphere.
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