By 1900, they were raising the tricolor at every occasion; marking 300 years since Michael the Brave briefly united the Romanian lands; and feasting in honor of Vasile Alecsandri, "the king of poetry".
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.
[3] The society edited several publications: Tinerimea română, Junimea literară and Deșteptarea, as well as a number of short-lived satirical magazines.
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.