Graduation under the Medical and Scottish Universities Acts : with some account of the origin of universities and degrees / by Robert Christison.

  • Robert Christison
Date:
1861
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    no man should retain his degree who did not teach. “ With what face,” says Nicolas Clemengis, Ep. 75, T. iv., 890, as quoted by Crevier, in his “ History of the Uni- versity of Paris,” “ can he wish to be thought doctor, who does not teach ? It is an idol, and not God, which is worshipped, but has not the might of God. In like manner, is he not rather an idol than a magister, who, without the essence and end of the mastership, plumes himself on a bootless refinement, a hollow honour, and a bare name V9 John Quintin, an eminent law professor in the sixteenth century, was so impressed with the truth of this doctrine, as to declare that those who did not teach, ought not to enjoy the rights granted to doctors. [Crevier, Histoire de l’Universite de Paris, vii. 151.] The simple truth, however, was that the doctores became too numerous for the scholares, and that, conse- quently, a large proportion finding no pupils forthcoming, were rather deserted by their function, than deserters of it; and that thus arose the class of graduate doctors, not pro- fessors. Note I. P. 56. The authority by which the University of Cambridge grants degrees does not rest on any Papal Bull, or Royal Charter, now extant. It may be that, when King Henry .VIII. seized the charters of the monasteries and universi- ties, there were among them some belonging to Cambridge, which the king did not return, and which might have contained papal or royal grants for conferring degrees.