 A major event in V. A. Urechia's career occurred in 1869, when Maiorescu and his like-minded friends established "Junimea" society in Iaşi.At the time, Urechia was editing the journal "Adunarea Naţională", which initially regarded the "Junimists" with sympathy, despite the fact that Maiorescu was already making his anti-liberal agenda public.By the early 1870s however, Urechia had become engaged in a major cultural polemic with the "Junimists", which reflected the liberal-conservative and Romantic-Neoclassical splits within Romanian society.