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
The Medical Department of the College is the only active School of
Medicine for women belonging to a University in this Country. As
applications are constantly being received, the number of its students
is likely to increase rapidly. After Matriculation, women are admitted
to the Hunterian Museum, have permission for the usual attendance in the
Wards and on the clinical Lectures at the Royal Infirmary. The classes
in Medicine being University classes, certificates of attendance thereon
may be used by those who propose to become Candidates for the degrees of
the other Scottish Universities, for those of the London University,
Victoria University, and the Royal University of Ireland, as well as for
the Qualification of the Scottish Corporations, the Colleges of
Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Physicians and
Surgeons of Glasgow (Conjoint).
Glasgow University, like that of Edinburgh, for the time being, has made
those differences in favour of women that we call Retrospective
Recognition, of those who had attended classes in Queen Margaret
College, though there are none completely ready to take full advantage
of it. As soon as arrangements are fully made for their education, the
conditions for women will be the same as for men.
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The University of Aberdeen was founded in 1494. Women’s claims on its
attention have not been so persistent as they have been in the Southern
Universities. But it rose to the new conditions of the Scottish
Universities Acts.
Ordinance No. 18 of the Universities Commission having passed, the
University Court of Aberdeen, on the recommendation of the Senatus,
resolved to admit women to _Graduation_ in _all_ Faculties. As to their
_instruction_, women are, within the University, on the same footing as
men, in the Faculties of Arts and Divinity, Science, and in the Faculty
of Law, except _so far_ as the class of Medical Jurisprudence is
concerned, which is classified with the other Medical classes proper, in
which the University has meantime considered it not advisable to provide
the necessary instruction.
Eleven women have matriculated this year and have commenced with the
Class of Literature. In answer to a question the Secretary of the
Senatus replied, “When we have any women Graduates, questions of their
privileges will have to be considered. But I can see no ground on which
membership in our General Council can be denied to them, except there be
any legal difficulty connected with the right of every member of Council
to vote for the M.P. for Glasgow and Aberdeen.”
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