In the summer of 1925, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana adopted its Belgrade counterpart’s Exam Regulations for Bachelor Exams. Th is marks the entry of comparative literary study in Slovenian academia. Comparative Litera-ture was off ered as either the main (A) course or, more commonly, as a B course combined with Slavic, German, or Romance Studies. In lieu of a suitable profes-sor, the chair of Comparative Literature was occupied by Slavic professor France Kidrič, who one hundred years ago, in the spring semester of 1926, held the lecture “A European Framework for Slavic Literatures in the Romantic Age (A Chapter in Comparative Literature).” In the same year, the Seminar for Com-parative Literature was established as well. Th e article off ers a detailed account of bachelor exams of the fi rst decade (1926–1936), gives reasons for their decline aft er 1931, and presents Kidrič’s conception of comparative literature.
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