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286 PASSING EVENTS.
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and colleges , and museums so contrived as to educate the mind through the eye , and to furnish objects for investigation .
During the last few weeks , a serious attempt has been made to obtain for women , the privilege of University Graduation . On the 29 th of October , Miss Garrett applied for permission to matriculate in the University of St .
Andrew ' s . The proceedings which followed are clearly stated in the form of a memorial laid before the counsel in whose hands Miss Garrett placed her case .
" Memorial for _JMiss Elizabeth Garrett , for the Opinion of Counsel . . " The memorialist , who is the daughter _oflSfewson Garrett , of Aide House ,
Aldeburgh , in the County of Suffolk , in England , with a view to entering the classes of anatomy and chemistry in the United College of St . Andrews , applied on the 29 th October 1862 to Mr . McBeanthe Secretary of the
University of St . Andrews , for , leave , to matriculate and , for a matriculation ticket . On payment of the usual fee , she obtained , without objection or remark , a matriculation ticket , having her name written on it , and after her
her nam name e the printed in the Roll words of Matriculated " Civis Universitatis Students Sancti of the _Andrese University , " and . she \ N ~ ext signed day she presented her matrkmlation ticket to Dr . Heddle , the Professor of
chemistry , and stated her desire to become a student in his class . He stated that he had no personal objection , and gave her a letter to Mr . Ireland , the Secretary of the United College , authorizing him to grant her a ticket for
attendance on his lectures . She presented the letter to Mr . Ireland , paid the class fee , and obtained the class ticket . On the following day a similar course of proceedinwas gone throughand she obtained a ticket for the
anatomy class . g , "On the 1 st November , the Senatus _Acacjemicus passed a resolution to the following effect : —
"' That the issuing a matriculation ticket and any class tickets which may have been given to this applicant , appears to have been done without sufficient decided ; authority and further , and that that a the committee question be thus appointed raised should to consider be deliberatel this novel y
point , to communicate , , if they think fit , with the other Universities , and if necessary , to take a legal opinion on the subject , and to report as soon as possible . And that Professors be enjoined in the meantime to defer
allowing " The the opening attendance of the classes of this lad of y an on atomy the classes and chemistry of the University has been , fixed ' for the 17 th . November , and should the opinion of counsel be favourable to her ,
the ' " memorialist The University intends of St to . Andrews insist on her was ri founded ght to attend by virtue these of classes a Bull . of Pope Benedict dated on or XIII ab . out , of th date at day 28 th conceding August , 1413 and , confirming and there all are privileges five other & Bulls cin ,
favour of the University . , These JBulls and other Charters of erection , , or foundation are printed in the Report of the University Commissioners of 1828 and 1830 , which was presented to the Houses of Parliament in 1837 .
The Acts of Parliament relating to this University are also printed in this-Report . These Bulls , Charters and Acts are referred to generally , as no part of them have special reference to the question in which the memorialist
is interested . " The memorialist desires the opinion of counsel on the following queries : — " 1 . There being no exclusion of women from college classes in the
ChartersActs of Parliament express and other documents regulating the affairs of the University , of St . Andrews , has the Senatus Academicus power to excludethe memorialist from the college , classes simplon the ground that she is a
woman ? y U 2 . Is the Senatus Academicus entitled to exclude the memorialist from _,
the these college classes classes have been on the attended ground onl that y by , by male immem students . oriai ; custom it bei ng kep usage t in
286 Passing Events.
286 PASSING _EVENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/70/
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