Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
- Date:
- 1894
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Credit: Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![James Sulley, Professor of Logic. W. Wyse, Professor of Greek. W. P. Ker, Professor of English Literature. Victor Horsley, Professor of Pathology. Mason College, Birmingham. R. S. Heath, Principal and Professor of Mathematics. William A. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry, and President of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. T. W. Bridge, Professor of Zoology. W. Hillhouse, Professor of Botany. Bertram C. A. Windle, Dean and Professor of Ana- tomy. F. J. Allen, Professor of Physiology. J. H. Poynting, Professor of Physics. Robt. Saundby, Professor of Medicine. E. A. Sonnenschein, Professor of Classics. C. Bevenot, Professor of French and Italian. G. Fielder, Professor of German. G. Barling, Professor of Pathology. Pharmaceutical Society op Great Britain. John Attfield, Professor of Practical Chemistry. J. Reynolds Green, Professor of Botany. Joseph Ince, Lecturer on Pharmacy. Henry G. Greenish, Lecturer on Materia Medica. Fellows op the Royal Society. (Names not contained in other lists.] W. T. Blanford. Robert H. Scott. Francis Galton. William Crookes. Sifvanus P. Thompson. Herbert McLeod. E. Frankland. W. T. Thiselton Dyer. Raphael Meldola. George Forbes. John Conroy. Shelford Bidewcll. Appendix Nos. 40 and 41. Durham College of Science. Wm. Gavnett, Principal. Geo. S. Brady, Professor of Natural History. R. L. Weighton, Professor of Engineering. G. A. Lebonr, Professor of Geology. P. Phillips Bedson, Professor of Chemistry. John H. Merivale, Professor of Mining. Henry Stroud, Professor of Physics. William Somerville, Professor of Agriculture. APPENDIX No. 41. Paper sent to the Commission by Dr. Johnstone Stoney after giving evidence. (See Question 18,852.) Firth College, Sheffield. W. M. Hicks, Principal. W. Carleton Williams, Professor of Chemistry. W. C. F. Anderson, Professor of Classics. Alfred Denny, Professor of Biology. L. T. O'Shea, Lecturer on Chemistry. George Young, Lecturer on Chemistry. University College, Dundi:e. W. Peterson, Principal. Darcy W. Thompson, Professor of Natural History. E. Way mouth Reid, Professor of Physiology. A. M. Paterson, Professor of Anatomy. W. S. McCormick, Professor of English. T. C. Fidler, Professor of Engineering. J. C. A. Steggall, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Percy F. Frankland, Professor of Chemistry. University College, Bristol. C. Lloyd Morgan, Principal and Professor of Geology and Zoology. Sydney Young, Professor of Chemistry. John Ryan, Professor of Physics. R. Fanchawe, Professor of Latin and Greek. Adolph Leipner, Professor of Botany. James Rowley, Professor of Modern History and English Literature. A. I'. Chattoek, Lecturer in Physics. F. R. Barrel], Lecturer in Mathematics. A. Richardson. Lecturer in Chemistry. Normand Wyld, Assistant Lecturer in Biology. F. Brooks, Lecturer in Classics. L. N. Tyack, Lecturer in Physics. City and Guilds op London Central Institution. Henry E. Armstrong, Professor of Chemistry. W. K. Ayrton, Professor of Electrical Engineering. 0. Henrice, Professor of Mathematics. W- 0. Unwin, Professor of Engineering. Royal College op Science, Dublin. W. N. Hartley, Professor of Chemistry. W. F. Barrett, Professor of Physics. Grenville A. J. Cole, Professor cf Geology. Thomas Johnson, Professor of Botany. James Lyon, Professor of Engineering, Appointment of University Professors, the professors of a College of the University being regarded as professors of the LIniversity attached to that College. The following mode of appointing seems to me the best, although I do not strongly urge that the selection of professors shall be made in any one way in all cases. For each vacancy which has to be filled let a special board of selection be created, consisting of professors who are experts in reference to the subject of the vacant chair, with, perhaps, some external assessors. For example, suppose that there are three Colleges in the University and that a vacancy occurs in the Chair of Greek in one of them. The Board of Appointment might in this case consist of the Professor of Latin in that College, of the Professors of Greek and Latin in the two other Colleges, and of two eminent classical scholars taken from sister Universities. There would thus be seven members of this Board specially called into existence to fill the vacancy. The person selected would probably have already served in the office of lecturer or of recognised tutor in one of the Colleges of the University, or in another University, if, as I have suggested in my evidence, the instruction of these three classes of teacher is recognised by the LTniversity and College. And, as the tendency in a University College is to be officered by a too-aged staff, I would suggest that this tendency be counteracted by taking age into account when appointing professors under some such rules as the following:— 1. Each elector in voting shall take the ages of the candidates into account; and when the votes are thus given— 2. —(a.) A majority of votes shall suffice to elect a person under 26 years of age, i.e., in the instance given, four out of the seven votes. (h.) To elect a person between 26 and 30 years shall require a majority of two-thirds, e.g., the votes of five out of the seven members of the board. (c.) To elect a person between 30 and 40 shall require all but one of the members of the board to concur in recommending him. (cZ.) And no person over 40 shall be appointed to a professorship, unless such circumstances have arisen that the Board are unanimous in recom- mending him. Some minor details of this mode of selecting pro- fessors would need to be provided for before it could be put- in practice, to ensure that the successive steps to be taken by the board shall not clash ; lint thev present no special difficulty,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24749436_1315.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
