Prospectus for session 1909-1910 / University of Glasgow, School of Medicine for Women, Queen Margaret College.

  • University of Glasgow. Queen Margaret College. School of Medicine for Women.
Date:
1909
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    Science and Medicine; and in 1890 a Medical School was organised, in addition to the classes in Arts and Science which, as time went on, had been gradually developed on the model of the i niversity Classes ; so that by 1892 the College was giving such a curriculum as would have met the requirements of University Degrees in Arts and Medicine. The endowment fund collected by Mrs. Campbell (including £3000 given by Messrs. Alexander and William Smart for a lectureship in Philosophy), and the proceeds of a bazaar held in 1892, amounted ‘to nearly £25,500. In February, 1892, the Universities Commissioners issued an Ordinance (No. 18), empowering the Scottish University Courts to make provision within the Universities for the instruction of women, either by admitting them to the ordinary classes or bv instituting separate classes for their instruction. The Council of Queen Margaret College, having considered the provisions of this Ordinance, came to the conclusion that the purpose for which the College had been instituted would be best served by making over their work to the University of Gla.sgow. Thev, accordingly, with the concurrence of Mrs. Elder, the proprietrix of the buildings and grounds hitherto occupied by the College, offered to transfer to the University Court these buildings and grounds, and the endowments (present and prosi>ective), on condition that these should be devoted to the establishment and maintenance of University Cla.sses for wmmen exclusively. The University Court, after consultation with the Senate, hav- ing resolved to exercise the power conferred by Ordinance No. 18, and to provide University instruction for women mainlv l)v the institution of separate classes, agreed to accept the offer made by Queen Margaret College, and remitted to a committee to take the necessary steps for completing the transfer. In virtue of this arrangement the teachers 'in Queen Margaret College were appointed by the University Court, and in Session 1SJ2-93 the students were admitted matriculated students of the University. In 1893, the College having been dissolved, the buildings and grounds, which had cost over £15,000, and the endowment funds, amounting to £25,482 17s. 6d., were handed over to the University Court; but the name “Queen Margaret Col ege- survives as designating the part of the University buildings and grounds which is devoted to the education of women. Fi oin the inception of the College until her death in .Tanuarv 1909, Miss Janet A. Cralloway acted as its honorary Secretarv, and in relation to the women students fulfilled the duties of its lesident^ head with unweaiwing assiduitv. In recognition of hei seixices to the I niversity and of the distinguished iiosition she had attained as a leader of Scottish Education, the Senate