At Junimea's 25th jubilee in 1904, guests arrived from the
Romanian Old Kingdom,
Transylvania,
Banat and
Crișana, as well as
Aromanians from
Macedonia. Meanwhile, local women donated a tricolor they had stitched together. The celebration happened to fall on the four hundredth anniversary of
Stephen the Great's death, and the Junimea leadership was selected as part of the festive committee. Members were concerned with the economic well-being of Bukovina's Romanian peasants and craftsmen, and especially after 1892, helped create reading rooms in villages and cooperative banks. They also adopted a combative posture against the authorities, traveling to
Cluj in 1894 to support the
Transylvanian Memorandum defendants, campaigning in favor of the tricolor in 1898–1899, protesting against the Germanophilia of Czernowitz professors in 1900, electing
Nicolae Iorga as an honorary member in 1908 when he was forbidden to enter Bukovina. The society edited several publications:
Tinerimea română,
Junimea literară and
Deșteptarea, as well as a number of short-lived satirical magazines. Its 30th anniversary in 1908 brought a number of prominent Romanian intellectuals, including
Simion Mehedinți,
Constantin Stere,
Mihail Sadoveanu,
Ștefan Octavian Iosif and
Dimitrie Anghel, as well as delegates from the universities of
Bucharest and
Iași, and representatives from Romanian students in other provinces. By 1914, participants maintained ties with Romanian student societies in, among other places, Vienna, Graz, Munich, Budapest, Berlin and
Kraków, as well as other cultural organizations in Bukovina. ==Notes==