Prospectus for session 1901-1902 / University of Glasgow, Queen Margaret College, School of Medicine for Women.

  • University of Glasgow. Queen Margaret College. School of Medicine for Women.
Date:
1901
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    ©ucen Margaret College, Glasgow. Queen Margaret College, which in 1893 ceased to be a ofPthe Til t'on’,“| became the Women’s Department ol the University of Glasgow, was the result of a move- 1 e'\tr for the ^gher education of women begun in Glasgow b} Mrs. Campbell of Tullichewan, about 1868. In that and subsequent years, at her request, short courses of lectures were delivered to ladies by Professors Young, Edward Caird, Nichol aud Grant. _ In 1877, at a public meeting presided over by Principal Caird, the Glasgow Association for the Higher Educvv tion of Women was formed, H.R.H. the Princess Louise, of TnlH?LeSS °f-fL0me’ bemg its president, and Mrs. Campbell fnU™, h * V !t.S vice-president; and arrangements were made lor couises of lectures to women on University subjects These were given by permission of the Senate, by University Pro- fessors m University class rooms; and the Association also A an t C aSS r00ra’ and a reading room in St. funder tl, S' 1 ,18,S3.fche Association was incorporated K1W, D°mpanies’ Act) as a College, which was'named jieen Margaret, after Margaret of Scotland, the wife of of1 and m,e earIiest Patroness in Scotland council nf tre Hfnr art‘ bbe College was governed by a t7enty;one members, two ot whom were appointed by the Senate of the University. The classes were organised on J'X Jf huuli and the subiects tor the M.A. course were taught, though degrees were not then open to women. pul! 18 .’ shortly after the incorporation of the College, Mrs. dder, widow of the eminent shipbuilder and engineer, John L der, generously offered to the Council as a gift the buildings and grounds now known by the name of Queen Margaret College, on condition that £20,000 should be raised as an Co]|pLmenr f\lland Pr^ision for carrying on the work of the ‘ Vj ln, 1884.’ ,the classes were removed thither, and steps i qqo takjn for. raising the endowment fund stipulated for. In c88, and again m 1890, additions to and alterations on the buildings were made to provide laboratories for teaching in