BIB_ID
408772
Accession number
MA 9183.39
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
[1866-1893] February 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.4 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 year of writing is not provided however it appears from the content it was written from Glasgow. Caird was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow from 1866-1893.
The year of writing is not provided however it appears from the content it was written from Glasgow. Caird was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow from 1866-1893.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning meetings that appear to be related to the Universities Act of Scotland; informing him that "...the Council - as you probably will be glad to hear - proposed to go back to the wording of the 3rd article - as great objections have been taken to Brown's amendment & from totally opposite quarters - on the one hand from those who wish [illegible] in the School & on the other hand from those - especially the Committee of the Birmingham League - who think that by the amendment religious teaching is allowed at all hours provided it does not call itself sectarian. As I was accepted merely to satisfy those whom it appears not to satisfy - and displeases many[,] we resolved at a meeting of Council yesterday to [illegible] to return to the old phraseology - and to do so in a meeting summoned partly for that purpose, partly to hear the report of the Deputation."
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