British freewomen : $b Their historical privilegeStopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
History
British freewomen : $b Their historical privilege
Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
Women -- Great Britain; Women -- History
In 1876 a movement for the University Education of Women was initiated,
and the Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women founded.
Shortly afterwards a liberal friend gave ground and funds to build a
College for women, to be called the Queen Margaret College. There the
University Professors and Assistants have lectured, good work has been
done and examinations instituted. But when the ordinances of the
Scottish Universities Acts came into force in February, 1892, the
existence of Queen Margaret College endowment enabled the Glasgow
Senatus to proceed on different lines from the other Universities. The
Executive Council of Queen Margaret’s College arranged to hand over to
the University the College Buildings, grounds and endowment, on
condition that they should be used for University Classes for Women
exclusively. Their College therefore becomes University Property and
Part of the University, and the old Executive Council is about to
dissolve. It is now governed by the University Court and Senate, who
make all the appointments and arrangements for classes; the classes
qualify for the University Degrees, in the same way as the classes at
Gilmore Hill, the Men’s University Buildings.
Students must matriculate as the men do; they have seats in the College
Chapel, use of the Libraries and Museums; the University prizes are open
to them, and graduates will be admitted to Convocation. There is a full
curriculum kept up in Arts and Medicine, and the girls who go up for
preliminary Arts, Science and Medicine Examinations and Degree
Examinations are examined along with the men, under the same conditions.
There is a good attendance at the classes, 86 having matriculated in
Arts, and 45 in Medicine, 131 in all compared with 1935 men students.
The votes of the undergraduate girls have been solicited already in the
election of the Lord Rector.
If the apparatus in the Queen Margaret College is not sufficient to
illustrate the Science and Medical Classes, the supply is supplemented
from the other building, or the girls may go there for demonstrations,
at different hours from the men. There are several women going up not
only for Preliminary exams. in Arts, but for Professional exams. in
Medicine.
The relation between the two Colleges has been sometimes called
Affiliation. This is incorrect. Affiliation supposes a separate
governing body and other details of separate existence. At one time
Affiliation was suggested, but the Rulers of Queen Margaret College
preferred that it should be taken over and become a part of the
University. The new arrangement works very well, and in a large
University like Glasgow the women prefer it to mixed classes.
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