Reform of the University of Glasgow : considered with reference to the published report of the Royal Commissioners of Visitation appointed by Sir Robert Peel, and to the evidence and documents contained in their unpublished appendix, embracing the whole of Mr Oswald's bill for the regulation of that university, compared, clause by clause, with the constitution proposed by those commissioners / by a graduate of the University.

Date:: 1835

Credit: Reform of the University of Glasgow : considered with reference to the published report of the Royal Commissioners of Visitation appointed by Sir Robert Peel, and to the evidence and documents contained in their unpublished appendix, embracing the whole of Mr Oswald's bill for the regulation of that university, compared, clause by clause, with the constitution proposed by those commissioners / by a graduate of the University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Mr Omvald's Bill^ tlie Principal or any Professor on the completion of the Seventieth Year of his age may retire, or in the event of his declining to retire, may be superseded by the Court; Provided always, That the Court shall make such yearly allowance for life to such Principal or Professor so retiring or being so superseded as last mentioned, as may un- COMPARISON, 29 Commissioner^'' Constitution. shall be proved to their satisfaction to be unfit for the duties of his office, and to give him a right to a certain portion of the salary during his lifetime; or in the event of insanity, to autliorize the ap* pointment of a Joint-Professor, with adequate provision for tlie original incumbent upon the above principle. der the cirouinstanoes to the Court seem equitable, not being less tlian ♦ and provided alwTiys, Tliat the Court shall have power to grant to a retired Professor the title of Emeritus Professor, with or without a seat and a voice in the Senate. That any proposal for tlie founding of an addi-r tional Professorsliip must be submitted to the Uni- versity Court; and that tlie same, if approved of by the University Court, shall not take effect, or the Professor become a member of the Senatiis Academicus, without the sanction and consent of the Crown duly intimated to the Chancellor— That no individual or public body founding any Professorship, shall be entitled to reserve the right of appointment to the same. 35. Endowments of a certain amount to he se- cured before any new Professorship is instituted.— And be. it Enacted, That no new Professorship shall be instituted in the University,f unless an Endowment secured to the satisfaction of the Court be first provided, affording at least $ per Annum, if the Professorship be in the Faculty of Theology, and at least j| jier Annum, if the Professorship be in any other Facidty; and in the event of the funds of the University, being in the opinion of the Court, adequate to the endowment of any new Professorship, the institution of which the Court may think desirable, or funds being othemise provided for that jiurpose to the satisfaction of the Court, the Court shall have power to apply to Mis Majesty by petition, praying Mis Majesty to institute such Professorship; and it shall be lawful to His Majesty to institute such Professorship accordingly: Provided always. That the institution of such new Professorship, if in any branch for which there is already a Professorship in the University, shall be made only with the consent and approbation of the Chancellor; and in all cases the Court shall have power to give to such new Professorships the name of the founders. 36. Lecturers may be appointed, how.—And be it Enacted, That the Court shall have power, after obtaining the opinion of the Faculty in which such Professorship is included, to appoint Lecturei s in any branch (»f education for which there shall not be a Professorshi]); and that the Court shall have the exclusive power to give or to refuse the sanction of the University to the institution of Lecture- ships in any such branch of education by any private party; and that the period of every appointment of a Lecturer so appointed or sanctioned as aforesaid, shall terminate at the first stated annual meeting of the Court, which shall take place after the next ensuing stated election of a Rector. 37. Lecturers may have certain salaries.—And be it Enacted, That the Court shall have power to give to any Lecturer to be appointed by the said Court, sucli salary, not exceeding ^ a year: Provided always, That any Lecturer who shall fail to have and teach a class in the depart- ment to which he is appointed during a whole year, except from sickness or infirmity, to be certified in the same manner as in the case of a Professor, shall not be entitled to or receive any salary for such year. 38. Appointment to certain Professorships to be by public co7npetilion.—AND whereas the power of aj^pointing to cerUiin Professorsliips in the University has hitherto been vested in the Principal and certain of the Professors BE it Enacted, That after the passing of this Act, all such Professor- ships shall be filled up by the Court in the manner hereinafter described; (that is to say) on a vacancy ^ occurring in any such Profe.s.sorship, notice of such vacancy having occurred, and an invitation to can- it|<lidates to come, forward, shall be given by the Principal by notice put up on the College gates, and iX l)y Three Advertisements in one or other of the Edmbtirgh Newspapers, and bv Three Advertisements II in one or other of the Glasgow Newspapers, and by Three Advertisements in one or other of the ■ Newspapers, and such other means of making such notice and invitation public shall be ^adopted as the Court shall think proper; and all such Advertisements shall be published within One j Month after such vacancy shall become known to the Principal ; and a meeting of the Court shall be D held not less than Six eeks, nor more than Three Montlis after the occurrence of such vacancy shall !T* become known to the Principal; the time and place of which meeting shall be specified in the, said -V Advertisements; and notice thereof also given by written or printed intimations to all the members of > the Court, One Month at least before such meeting shall be. held; and if at the said meeting of the MS Court the members present shall unanimously agree to appoint any individual to the vacant Professor- ^ship, such individual shall be by the Court declared to be duly a])pointed, but if the Court shall not at the said meeting unanimously agree to appoint some individual to such vaauic Profes-sorship, the vacancy shall be filled up bv competition in the manner hereinaff.ei- sneeifii.d • otint- ;<s tn env^ rlio rnm-t- ’> • /Iherdeen •t“ Proti'sior 0l '< KOIlHlly *1 up by competition in the manner hereinafter specified; (that is to say) the Court hot (teen Bill ■ Not less than a thirtieth part of tha sum of all the aalaria**, exclnsiva of feea reci ■.■s-or (inriiuf all the yoara not cxccpdinpr thirty, wherein thfi Buid Professor has for a session each y illy, never le.ss than two.thirds of an entire session, lectured or taught in the University. The sanit _qwer to snperBede a I rofessor, on a similar retiring allowance, in the ease of his “ haviug, from insanity, mfirmity for four snccesaive years, heen unable to lecture or teach one entire session ’• t nre Aberdeen Bill here inserts, » except by authority of the Crown, iior— T f Iftnm tiip Ahprnppii lli I ' • • received by such _ ear, and per- sanle Bill provides or any other £t50 in the Aberdeen Bill. £\00 in the same. ) jEso In tlie same. if “ Along with the Bector and Dean, should hare been here added i$

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