261:. For acting against the group, its leadership decided he should die. In November 1938, a wave of Guardist terrorism led the Cluj police chief to order round-the-clock protection for Ștefănescu-Goangă. In response to the consequent arrest of over forty members, the Guard activated its plan to eliminate him. On the afternoon of 28 November, while he was walking to class, a group of five assassins fired five shots at him. Three hit the professor, who survived but lay bedridden for four months. The policeman who was accompanying him was killed on the spot. The shooting was used by
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and seconded by Ștefănescu-Goangă, continued for years. By 1935, a press campaign was calling on Blaga to be admitted as a professor, but Ștefănescu-Goangă was rumored to be holding the position for his student Rusu. He finally relented in 1938, when Blaga was hired to lecture on the philosophy of
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chapter. He insisted on hosting the founding meeting in his own home (his wife's property), later putting up a plaque reminding viewers of
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