Education: Day for Don Miguel

Miguel de Unamuno, a brilliant man with flashing eyes who wrote novels, plays and poems, was long considered, with Ortega y Gasset, Spain's most influential philosopher. In 1901 he became rector of the nation's oldest university, and under him, Salamanca began to recapture some of the glory it had known in the days of Students Cervantes, Cortes and Ignatius of Loyola. This year, when Salamanca began laying plans to celebrate its 700th anniversary, it naturally included a solemn tribute to its great rector.

Deserve to Be Immortal. In his 72 years of life (he died in 1936), Miguel de Unamuno was forever...

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