Excerpt from The Aberdeen University Review, Vol. 1: 1913-14

Scottish sisters, a great increase of resources, and this not too soon to meet the rapidly multiplying needs and Opportunities of the intellectual life of our time: the division of old sciences and the rise of new ones, as well as the demands for efficient training in the material and moral problems of civilisation, which are made by men and women engaged in commerce and industry and the public services. New questions of academic policy have arisen not only with regard to the proper alloca tion of those additional funds, but also concerning the conditions on which they are granted, and the relations in which they involve the Universities with the State (or its Departments), and with other bodies charged with their disbursement. In all this there is much matter for our review; and efforts will be made to state with justice and intelligence the complex problems of policy which it raises.

But the main business of the review must be to keep the graduates of the University informed of her activities in education and research. How necessary such regular information is, how swiftly a University in this century grows away from the knowledge of her own alumni, who have left her to work at a distance, may be appreciated from the following comparison. Twenty years ago, in 1892-3, there were on the regular teaching staff twenty-two professors, five lecturers, and sixteen assistants to professors: in all forty-three. Now there are twenty five professors and thirty-three lecturers, of whom twelve, along with thirty-one others, are assistants to professors. Then there were nine external examiners, now there are thirty-one. Between 1 890 and 1900, the average number of students was 830, while last session there were 1042 (724 men and 318 women); the highest annual roll in the history of the University, though whether such a number can be maintained in face of the volume of emigration from the North and North-east of Scotland is very doubtful. Within the last few years there have been new Ordinances in Arts, Law and Medicine, the degree of ll.b. Has been founded, and for the former system of class fees Inclusive Fees have been substituted for courses leading to degrees in Arts, Pure Science, Law and Medicine. A new block of buildings, with eleven rooms for English, History, French and German, has been erected at King's College; and the Carnegie Trust has allocated enough of its next Quinquennial Grant to the University for a large extension of the Library at King's, and the erection of an Examination Hall. We hope to give from time to time reports of all these and other changes and expansions in the equipment, the teaching and the discipline of the University, as well as of their educational and financial results.

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