BIB_ID
190358
Accession number
MA 9165.37
Creator
Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry), 1850-1910.
Display Date
[1889-1896] January 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
The letter is simply dated January 29. The letter refers to the Commission and thus it is likely that the letter was written between 1889-1896, the years in which Butcher served on the Scottish Universities Commission as the representative of University professors.
Written on stationery printed "27 Palmerston Place / Edinburgh."
The letter is simply dated January 29. The letter refers to the Commission and thus it is likely that the letter was written between 1889-1896, the years in which Butcher served on the Scottish Universities Commission as the representative of University professors.
Written on stationery printed "27 Palmerston Place / Edinburgh."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for the article; saying "I think it will be very useful to the Commission as well as to the general public. As yet we have arrived at no conclusions on the subject here. Our faculty of Arts, a very miscellaneous body, is divided between two views. The holders of the [illegible] chairs, if one may so call them, are pressing a scheme by which unlimited & unregulated options shall be allowed for the degree. All English, they say, sh'd be equal in the eyes of the law. The results they lead to are so ludicrous that no outside body composed of sane men could look at the scheme for a moment;" asking if he would like him to return the copy of the Scottish Review. .
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