Application / by James Finlayson, M.D., LL.D. (Glasg.).

  • Finlayson, James, 1840-1906.
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[1900]
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    University College, Dundee, St. Andrews University. ^th June, 1900. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND. My Lord, I desire to offer myself as a candidate for the Professorship of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow. I am forty-one years of age, and a Master of Arts of Glasgow University, where I was a student for seven sessions. I studied also for some time at the Universities of Gottingen and Marburg. For a year of my undergraduate course in Glasgow I acted as assistant to the Professor of Mathematics, and thus gained an early lesson in the teaching and conduct of University classes. My experience in University teaching and lecturing on the subject of English Language and Literature extends over the past seventeen years. From 1884 to 1889 I was assistant to the late Professor Nichol, and in his absence during the session of 1885-6 I discharged by appoint- ment of the Senate the duties of his Chair. During the same period I held the Lectureship of English Language and Literature in Queen Margaret College, now incorporated in the University of Glasgow; and I was also much engaged in lecturinor and teachino- in connection with the University Extension Scheme in Scotland. In 1890 I was appointed to the Professorship of P2nglish Language and Literature in University College, Dundee,—an office which I still hold. In 1892, at the suggestion of the Scottish Universities Commission, and by the arrangement of the Court and Senate of St. Andrews University, I also undertook the teaching of English Language and Literature in the United College, and for five vears conducted the classes of both Colle«es. The course ^ o of studies in my Pass and Plonours classes is similar to that of the English classes in the other Universities of Scotland, and includes the study of Language as well as of Literature. I have also during my tenure of the Chair in University College delivered each session a course of University Extension Lectures of a more popular character in Dundee.