“_Opinion._--Upon the ground of keeping faith with the women who have,
in reliance upon the regulations and in compliance with the terms
thereby prescribed, qualified themselves for professional examination
with a view to graduation, we are of opinion that the Senatus is
entitled to direct that they shall be admitted to examination; and
we also think that, without any further direction or authority than
the regulations necessarily imply, the Medical Faculty is entitled to
admit them to examination.
“_Queries_ 3 and 4.--Is it competent for the Senatus, either directly
or in conjunction with the other University authorities, to appoint
special lecturers to deliver qualifying courses of lectures to women
who are matriculated and registered students of medicine, when such
instruction cannot be obtained from the professors of the special
subjects in question? Is it competent for the Senatus or other
University authorities so far to relax the ordinary regulations with
respect to extra-mural classes as to authorise women to attend outside
the University those courses of lectures which are denied to them by
the Professors within the walls, such courses being held to qualify
for graduation beyond the number of _four_, as contemplated in the
present regulations?
“_Opinion._--If the existing regulations with respect to graduation in
medicine stand upon statutes passed by the University Commissioners,
whose powers have now expired, it is competent for the University
Court to alter them with the written consent of the Chancellor and
with the approval of Her Majesty in Council. This is provided by
section 19 of the Act of 1858. If they stand on the authority of the
Court, or of any other power in the University itself, we should think
that they may be altered by the University Court under section 12 of
the Act, ‘after due communication with the Senatus Academicus, and
with the sanction of the Chancellor,’ but with the proviso that the
proposed alteration ‘shall be submitted to the University Council for
their consideration.’ In one or other of these ways it appears to
us that any provision which may be deemed necessary, or proper and
reasonable, for enabling women to complete their medical studies, with
a view to graduation, maybe made.”
“_Query_ 5.--Whether the Senatus, University Court, University Council
and Chancellor, had collectively the power of granting to women the
permission to matriculate as students as they did in 1869, and whether
the regulations issued officially (November 12, 1869) are valid as
regards such matriculation?
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