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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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STUDENT, n. As in Eng., one who studies at a university, specif. in Scot. applied to an undergraduate, and to a pupil of any given University teacher. Phr. Students' Representative Council (frequently abbreviated to S.R.C.), a statutory body elected in each of the Scottish Universities by the matriculated students from among themselves to discuss student affairs and interests, orig. represented on the University Court by the Rector, q.v., but also more recently in some of the Universities by their own delegates.Sc. 1713 Two Students (Dickinson 1952) 20, 35:
That unruly throng of Students. . . . To find the customs of the University so far changed since he was a Student.Sc. 1726 Caled. Mercury (18 Oct.):
The ancient Rights and Privileges of the Students in the Election of the Rector.Sc. 1795 Stat. Acc.¹ XXI. App. 34:
The professors of humanity, or Latin, and of Greek, lecture and examine their students.Sc. 1868 G. MacDonald R. Falconer ii. vi.:
The red gown of the Aberdeen student.Sc. 1909 J. Kerr Sc. Education 346:
The Student's Representative Council. . . is elected annually, and consists of representatives from the different Faculties, and the recognised student's societies.Sc. 1949 E. Halevy England in 1815 538:
When a boy left school he proceeded to the university. He became a ‘student' at one of the four Scottish universities, . . . or an ‘undergraduate' of Oxford or Cambridge. To these two terms corresponded two distinct types of university.Sc. 1968 St Andrews Alumnus Chronicle (June) 5:
Lorimer would appear a somewhat forbidding person, but he was on cordial terms with his students.Sc. 1969 Edb. Univ. Students' Handbk. 27:
At a general meeting of the students of the University held on 17th January, 1884, the first Student's Representative Council — the prototype of similar bodies throughout the world — was constituted. By the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889 the S.R.C. was authorised, on behalf of the Students, to conduct negotiations with the Senatus Academicus and the University Court.