Notes on the foundation and history of Marischal College / [W. Martin ].

  • Martin, W.
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[1849?]
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    NOTES UN THE FOUNDATION AND HISTORY OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE. 1. Academia was employed as synonymous with Studium Generale and Vniversitas Liter aria in the earliest history of the Continental Univer¬ sities. Huber on the English Universities. Vol. I. pp. 3, 19. 2. In England, it has been used at least since the year 1524, in public Acts of Universities, in official documents, and in the common literature of the country, to denote a University as distinguished from its Colleges. Wood’s “Historia et Antiq. Univ. Oxon, passim. Bacon “ De Augmentis,” Lib. II. 1557, Huber on English Universities, Yol. I., p. 289, note. 1603, Do. do. do. Yol. II., Ft. i., p. 103, note. 3. In Scotland, during the sixteenth century, at least after 1553 (forty years before the foundation of Marischal College), Academia was used in Charters and other official documents of the Universities, and in the same sense. 1553, “ Nova Fundatio Collegii Mariani.” St. Andrew’s Report (1826-7), p. 362. 1572, New Foundation of the College of Glasgow. Glasgow Report, 237. 1577, “ Nova Erectio,” by James YI. Glasgow Report, 239. 1625, Act of Senatus Academicus. St. Andrew’s Report, 203. Thus, also, in the Foundation Charter of Marischal College (1593) the Universities of St. Andrew’s, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Old Aberdeen, are referred to as Academics. 4. Gymnasium was used no less distinctively, in the sixteenth century, in the Charters of the Scottish Colleges, as synonymous with Collegium. It is the title given to the Colleges of St. Andrew’s and Glasgow, in all the Charters above referred to. The title of Gymnasiarcha is given, in the “Nova Erectio of Glasgow, to the Principal of Glasgow College, and in the Foundation Charter of Marischal College to the Principal of the College of Old Aberdeen. 5. Marischal College and University (Collegium et Academia) was found¬ ed in 1593, after the model of the College and University of Glasgow, as reformed under the “ Nova Erectio of James YI.; with University and College Officers, the same in number, distinguished by the same names, invested with the same powers, discharging the same duties, and subjected to the same rules. Each University ( TJniversitas, Aca¬ demia) had a Chancellor, Rector, and Dean of Faculty; each College (Collegium, Gymnasium) a Gymnasiarcha and three Regents, with Bursars and College Servants. The Chairs now existing in each Uni¬ versity in the higher Faculties, with the single exception of those held by the Principals who have always had a Theological character have been founded subsequently to the erection of the Colleges, a power of founding additional chairs being expressly acknowledged in the Charter of 1593. The Foundation Charters of the Marischal and Glasgow Colleges, so far as they refer to College and not to University matters, are expressed Kg SUPUUT t W \fj .