It’s July outside, the exams are over, so University students have an opportunity to rest before the new academic year. However, midsummer was not always a time of rest for Polytechnic students. In certain historical periods, studies lasted until the end of July, and it was in July that practices, scientific trips or excursions for trainees (as the students were called at that time) took place. We provide information about students of the 70s and 80s of the XIX century.
June 28, 1876. The board of professors C.K. Technical Academy decided to allocate 600 zlotys in the budget for scientific excursions, which were to be distributed among professors and academics responsible for their implementation: to Julian Niedźwiedzki – 50 zlotys; 110 zlotys each to Julian Zachariewicz, Jozef Egermann, Stanislav Zembinski, Rudolph Günsberg, and Jozef Richter.
On July 9–28, 1877, the students of C.K. Technical Academy conducted a geodetic practice near Stryi. In this regard, the rector August Freund previously sent a letter to the Halychyna Governorate with a request to inform the Starostvo in Stryi, so that the latter would inform the residents that it was forbidden to break and remove geodetic signs that were installed by the interns. The practice was led by Professor of Geodesy Dominik Zbrozek and his assistant, Assistant Professor August Witkowski.
On July 11, 1886, students under the leadership of Professor Julian Zachariewicz went on a scientific trip from Lviv to Stryi and Sambor, and then to Biecz, Krosno, and Odrzykoń. The Kurjer Lwowski newspaper read: «On Sunday, July 18, the participants of the scientific trip returned from Krosno and Biecz, where, under the leadership of professors Zachariewicz and Bisanz, as well as assistant Kovalchuk, they took photographs of churches and typical Gothic monuments... All students without exception of the Architecture Department took part in this event...».
In July 1886, chemistry students together with Professor Bronisław Pawlewski went on a scientific trip to Stryi, Drohobych, Boryslav, Truskavets, Volianka, and later went to Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Kolomyia, Pechenizhyn and Rungurska Sloboda (now Sloboda) to visit local factories and industrial establishments.
