On this page
-
Text (1)
-
PASSING EVENTS. 287.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
-• Proposed Admission Of Girls To Univer...
Courts view that have the been only directed powers of against exclusion either hitherto imperfect exercised , preliminary by the education University or
Immoral conduct ? the " class 3 . Did fees the for payment chemistry by and the anatomy memorialis com t of le th te a matricula contract tion binding fee , and on the of
Professors of the college ? If the contract , was p completed , can the memor merel ialist insist in the for form specific of dama performance es ? , or would she be entitled to reparation g
" 4 . y , In the whole circumstances , have counsel any serious doubts to suggest chemistry as to the va and lidity anatomy of the ? memorialist " ' s claim of right to attend the classes of
( Opinion . ) _^ " 1 & 2 . It is impossible , in the absence of all authority , to form any
concolle a fident gainst ge o classes p whose inion as character to one the , either powers and man capacity of or a woman Senatus for ac , quiring who Academicus is willing what to is to to exclude pay be fees taug , from and ht
ther discover e is no any reasonable ground in and law to sufficient warrant objection the exclusion . 13 ut of I women have been from unable univer to - sities . In all the old foundations of St . Andrew ' s University subsequent to
t he zout _Reformation h , bairnis the , student word is s app and lied scholares to those , ' who which are words to be are educated applicable are ' Youth both _Reformation sexes . J 3 y the the Act wive of sfamilies 1579 which and servants effected of what the Professors is known as were Buchanan excluded ' s
, , limited then from lived the to college in sons ) buildings . colle .. g actual e , w , i th studentis the as no excep t to lauchfullie ti reside on of t amon hose and g bairni orderlie the y s ( obviousl enterit g men in y , who the not
college . ' tell " in Usage favour does of not the , in Pr my ofessors opinion exercising , tell one way a power or another which . It they clearl were y canno never t
before used to exercise . I have no doubt that the Senatus Academicus has a enab wide le t discre hem t ti on sh , which the col is l above ege classes the law enti , and y ; for ich if , they if carried can exclude out , cou one ld
without reason they can exclude all . sub " vers If the ive presence of good of order the memorialist d discipline in , then a college I am class of opinion should the prove Senatus to be
Academicus can interfere either at the request of the Professor or of their they The own motive college cannot ; is exclude but not I the cannot or privat expel hel e p without property thinking legal of that the , proof , in Senatu the of a s exercise breach which they of of disci disci can p p line shut line , .
ag arish ainst church any one or a they arish may school please and ; but even it is more public so than property the , former as much and as is a not p in any sense the p property of , the Senatus . No doubt they have , certain
powers liament the ancient of and administration statutes none of of these the , but require University these powers or , justif the do Charters not the entitle exclusion , and them the of Acts to women go of beyond from
Parcollege , classes . y " 3 . There can be no doubt that there has been a completed contract between the memorialist and the ofessors of and
Had this contract been contrary to Pr the laws of the Chemistry college I am of Anatomy opinion . that no law the for Senatus the Senatus could have interfering rendered between it inoperative a Professor and and void his ; but student I know , and of
" posing without the lawful Professor cause to prohibiting an action the of damages latter from for breach attending of contract the class . , and I am ex of - op fessors inion , for therefore specific , th performance at the memorialist of their can contract insist against with her the . individual She miht Pro on
the other alternative , obtain damages from them , and they again might g have , recourse against the members of Senatus who had compelled their breach of
contract , though as to this I express xao opinion , as I am not aware how far
Passing Events. 287.
PASSING EVENTS . 287 .
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/71/
-