Reasons of dissent ... from a resolution of Faculty, with respect to the admission of a professor of medicine, October 20, 1841 / by Duncan Macfarlan.

  • Macfarlan, D. (Duncan), 1771-1857.
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[1841]
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    REASONS OF DISSENT, By DUNCAN MACFARLAN, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF GLASGOW COLLEGE, FROM A RESOLUTION OF FACULTY, In order that the following argument may be fully understood, it must be born in mind, That the College of Glasgow, as a subordinate but distinct Corporation, has subsisted from the first institution of the University, and is co-eval with its foundation. Being with the other departments of the University impover- ished and nearly extinguished at the Reformation, it was restoised and en- dowed anew by King James VI. in 1577, and this new erection, as it was called, has been confirmed by many subsequent Charters and Acts of Parlia- ment. During the eighteenth century a variety of disputes arose amongst the mem- bers of the College, as to the interpretation of some parts of the constitution, involving particularly the respective powers and duties of the several func- tionaries and jurisdictions of both the University and College. These were finally settled in 1771 and 1772, by deliberate and unchallenged judgments of the Supreme Civil Courts. In the latest of these judgments, the judges found and declared— That all the Professors of the said College are subject to the daily and ordinary inspection and jurisdiction of the Principal of the said College, and that the Principal and all the Professors of the said College, with the advice of the Lord Rector and Dean of Faculty of the said University, have the sole right and power of trying every one of the Professors of the said College for negligence of duty, or misbehaviour in other respects, and of inflicting on him or them the pains of suspension, deprivation, or such censure as their negligence or misbehaviour shall deserve. Their Lordships also found and declared— That when the office of Principal of Glasgow College, or when any Professorship in the said College in the gift of the King, becomes vacant, it belongs to the Faculty Meeting of the said College, as described in the Statutes of the last Royal Visitation, and not to the Rector and his Assessors, nor to the Comitia, nor to the Senate WITH RESPECT TO THE ADMISSION OF A PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE. October 20, 1841.