Twenty-One Years of Corporate Life at Edinburgh University: Being a Short History of the Students' Representative Council and an Account of Its Majori

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Excerpt from Twenty-One Years of Corporate Life at Edinburgh University: Being a Short History of the Students' Representative Council and an Account of Its Majority Celebrations The Universities (scotland) Act, 1889, in addition to instituting important changes in the administrative and educational arrangements in the Universities, gave statutory authority for the formation of a Students' Representative Council in each University, and empowered the Universities Commissioners to frame regulations for the constitution and functions of the Council. By this enactment the movement for a definite organisation of the students, which in Edinburgh dates from the ever-memorable Tercentenary Festival of 1884, received the sanction of the Legislature. It is true that by the preceding Universities Act, 1858, Edin burgh students were for the first time authorised to elect a Rector, who was to preside at the meetings of the University Court, and who in his turn was to nominate an assessor on the Court, but at each triennial period, as soon as the Rector was elected, the students became dormant in regard to the public life of the University, and did not awake to activity until the preparations for the next election made a fresh demand on their vivacity and energies. By the statutory recognition of a Representative Council the students acquired through it a much more definite position in the organisation of the Scottish Universities than they had previously possessed, and had inferentially imposed on them new obligations and greater responsibilities. The year 1905 marks a definite stage in the development of the movement which was started in 1884, for the Students' Representative Council has now attained its majority, and in an appropriate manner has celebrated its coming of age by a dinner, and by preparing a Short history of its rise and progress. The students, in common with the professors and other teachers, are deeply interested in the advancement of education, and in maintaining the position of the University in the front rank. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.