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THE Oxford University Gazette of October 10 contains counsel's opinion on the proposed faculty of Natural Science at Oxford. It has been proposed that the University should, by statute, establish a new faculty, under the name of “The Faculty of Natural Science,” should grant degrees of Bachelor and Master in that faculty, and should give to Masters of Natural Science all the rights and privileges which are now enjoyed by Masters of Arts, so making them Members of Convocation (the governing body of the University), and enabling them to vote for the members returned to Parliament by the University. Mr. Horace Davey is of opinion that the University may create a new faculty in science, or (which comes to the same thing) may sever one of the sciences or philosophies formerly comprised in the Faculty of Arts, and may make it into a new faculty, and grant degrees therein. Such a severance was anciently made in the case of grammar, rhetoric, and music. But Mr. Davey believes that the University has no power to confer upon graduates in a new natural science faculty the rights which now belong to Masters of Arts, and the degree of Bachelor or Master of Natural Science would not make the holder a Member of Convocation. This difficulty Mr. Davey suggests, might be avoided by the University conferring the degree of Master of Arts on any person obtaining the corresponding degree in the new faculty.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 20, 595–596 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020595a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020595a0