Library.-Appointed by Court-Dr. J. E. Crombie, Dr. Lees, Mr. J. F. Kellas Johnstone. Appointed by Senatus-The Principal, Professors Baillie, Shennan, Gilroy, Soddy, Trail. Convener-Prof. Trail. Museum.-Appointed by Court-Mr. Cooper, Rev. James Smith, Mr. Scott Riddell. Appointed by Senatus-Professors Souter, Gilroy, Harrower, Thomson, Terry, Reid. Convener-Prof. Harrower. Finance.-(Univ. Court)-The Rector, the Principal, the Lord Provost, Dr. Edilis.-(Univ. Court)-The Rector, the Principal, the Lord Provost, Sir John The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Trustee representing Aberdeen University.-Professor Matthew Hay, M.D. (Reappointed 1913.) Students' Representative Council. Office-Bearers for 1916-1917. President.-J. S. B. Forbes, M.A. Miss K. B. M. Wattie. Secretary.-F. W. Carter. Treasurer.-A. C. Hill, M.A. THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY CALENDAR. PART I. HISTORICAL SKETCH; CHRONOLOGICAL LISTS OF OFFICIALS, ETC., ETC. The University. THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN derives its origin and endowments from two separate, and for a long time independent foundations. The one of these was the University founded by WILLIAM ELPHINSTONE, Bishop of Aberdeen, under the authority of a Papal Bull, obtained in 1494-5, at the instance of King James IV.; within which University was afterwards founded, in 1505, the College of St. Mary, subsequently called King's College. From this Royal Patronage, it was held to stand in a specially close relation to the Sovereign, and is accordingly styled in Acts of Scots Parliament-‘Our Sovereine Lord His College and University'. The other foundation was that of Marischal College, founded in 1593, by George KEITH, fifth Earl Marischal, under a Charter ratified by Act of the Scots Parliament. The first of these Institutions was constituted originally as a Studium Generale et Universitas Studii generalis, "as well in Theology, in Civil and Canon Law, as in Medicine and in the Liberal Arts, as also in any other lawful Faculty," with all rights and privileges as to Degrees exercised by the Universities of Paris and Bologna'. Various confirmations by Parliament followed, but among these, the most specific is that of the Parliament of 1670 (Fasti Aberd., p. 169-70), an Act of which Parliament recites and sanctions all the privileges conferred as to Degrees, not only equal to those enjoyed by Paris and Bologna, but also 'any other University whatsomever'. The power hereby conferred on, and the authorisation thus given to the Degrees of the University of Aberdeen, both for European and national validity, are at once explicit and complete, more complete, indeed, as to title than those belonging to any other single University in Scotland. This completeness of title has been acknowledged by the Commission of 1858, who in their Report, on p. 222, in order to establish the validity of certain degrees in another Scottish University, make appeal to the Charter of the University of Aberdeen, as constituted in 1494, as furnishing the conclusive argument by analogy upon which reliance is ultimately placed. The two Colleges or Academic Corporations above named, both of them exercising University rights and privileges, co-existed for a long period as independent and rival institutions, and although various attempts were made, and notably in 1641, to form them into one Academic body, these attempts were unsuccessful. The Caroline University of 1641 can hardly be said to have had a real existence, and it was not until the year 1858, on the passing of the first Universities' Act, that they became united and incorporated into one university. The history of each of these bodies falls, therefore, to be given separately, until within a comparatively recent period. |