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 The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness associated with other public occasions, in particular, the election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The [[Senatus Academicus]] thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Students' Representative Council was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
-The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the [[Universities (Scotland) Act 1889]]. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a Student Union, eventually achieved in 1887.
+The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the [[Universities (Scotland) Act 1889]]. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a [[Edinburgh University Union|Student Union]], eventually achieved in 1887.
 == Related Events ==

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 Edinburgh University's [[Students' Representative Council]] was founded in 1884.
-The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness associated with other public occasions, in particular, the election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The [[Senatus Academicus]] thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Student's Representative Council (SRC) was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
+The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness associated with other public occasions, in particular, the election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The [[Senatus Academicus]] thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Students' Representative Council was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
 The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the [[Universities (Scotland) Act 1889]]. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a Student Union, eventually achieved in 1887.

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 Edinburgh University's [[Students' Representative Council]] was founded in 1884.
-The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness which had previously marred public occaions, in particular, election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The [[Senatus Academicus]] thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Student's Representative Council (SRC) was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
+The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness associated with other public occasions, in particular, the election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The [[Senatus Academicus]] thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Student's Representative Council (SRC) was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
 The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the [[Universities (Scotland) Act 1889]]. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a Student Union, eventually achieved in 1887.

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 Edinburgh University's [[Students' Representative Council]] was founded in 1884.
-The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness which had previously marred public occaions, in particular, election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The Senatus Academic thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Student's Representative Council (SRC) was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
+The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness which had previously marred public occaions, in particular, election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The [[Senatus Academicus]] thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Student's Representative Council (SRC) was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
 The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the [[Universities (Scotland) Act 1889]]. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a Student Union, eventually achieved in 1887.

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 The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness which had previously marred public occaions, in particular, election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The Senatus Academic thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and [[David Orme Masson (1858-1937)]], who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Student's Representative Council (SRC) was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
-The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a Student Union, eventually achieved in 1887.
+The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the [[Universities (Scotland) Act 1889]]. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a Student Union, eventually achieved in 1887.
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 == Related Events ==
-*[[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]]
+*[[Tercentenary Festival, 1884]]
-*[[Opening of New Medical School, 1884|Opening of New Medical School]]
+*[[Opening of New Medical School, 1884]]
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	*Robert Anderson, 'Ceremony in Context: The Edinburgh University Tercentenary, 1884', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 87 (2008), 121-45 [[http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0036924108000073], accessed 1 August 2014]		*Robert Anderson, 'Ceremony in Context: The Edinburgh University Tercentenary, 1884', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 87 (2008), 121-45 [[http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0036924108000073], accessed 1 August 2014]
		+	*[[Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1868-1947)\|Sir Thomas Henry Holland]], 'Introduction', in A. Logan Turner (ed.), ''History of the University of Edinburgh 1883-1933'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1933), pp. xiii-xxx.
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	*[[Tercentenary Festival, 1884\|Tercentenary Festival]]		*[[Tercentenary Festival, 1884\|Tercentenary Festival]]
	*[[Opening of New Medical School, 1884\|Opening of New Medical School]]		*[[Opening of New Medical School, 1884\|Opening of New Medical School]]
		+	== Sources ==
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		+	*Robert Anderson, 'Ceremony in Context: The Edinburgh University Tercentenary, 1884', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 87 (2008), 121-45 [[http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0036924108000073], accessed 1 August 2014]
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-Clearly it would be embarrassing if such scenes confronted the
+Edinburgh University's [[Students' Representative Council]] was founded in 1884.
-The SRC used its
+The stimulation for the foundation of the Council was provided by the [[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]] of 1884. There was widespread anxiety lest the celebrations be marred by the outbreaks of student rowdiness which had previously marred public occaions, in particular, election and inaugural address of the University's [[Rector]]. The Senatus Academic thus welcomed the initiative of a group of students headed by [[Robert Fitzroy Bell (1859-1908)]] and David Orme Masson, who argued that a representative council could aid in maintaining order and decorum, in promoting student social life, and in fostering a 'wholesome esprit de corps' and a spirit of loyalty towards the university. A first formal meeting of the Student's Representative Council (SRC) was held on 17 January 1884, bringing together representatives from the university's many clubs and societies. Its first task was to maintain order at the inaugural address of Rector [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)]] and at the torchlit process that followed. This the SRC accomplished so successfully that it was entrusted with policing the Tercentenary Festivities. It was nonetheless dissatisfied with the limited place allotted to students in the official programme of events. After protest, the SRC was finally permitted to organize five events: a torchlight procession, a performance of a drama based on [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)|Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''The Fortunes of Nigel'', a reception for foreign guests, a formal ball, and an informal smoking concert.
-success in 1884 to launch an appeal for its first priority, a Student
-Union, and this opened in 1887–8. The SRC was soon imitated in
+The SRC was soon imitated by the other Scottish universities and was granted formal recognition as the official representative body of Edinburgh's students by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889. It used its success in the Tercentenary festivities to launch an appeal to fund its first priority: the opening of a Student Union, eventually achieved in 1887.
-the other Scottish universities, and given a formal role by the 1889
-Act. It also developed international links: Bologna students established
+== Related Events ==
-contact in 1884, and the SRC sent a delegate to the 1888 jubilee there,
-an event which was important in spreading ideas of student corporate
+*[[Tercentenary Festival, 1884|Tercentenary Festival]]
-life throughout Europe.45 The Tercentenary was thus a landmark in the
+*[[Opening of New Medical School, 1884|Opening of New Medical School]]