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1865-6

Queen's University, 3d March 1866

This day the Senate met according to adjournment
and was constituted. Present the Principal in the Chair,
Professors Williamson, Horatio Yates, Octavius Yates, Lavell,
Fowler, Bell, Maclean and Murray.

The Senate agreed that the following intimation
should be put up on the College Buildings by Secretary
of the Medical Faculty.

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Measures to
ensure quiet
in the Buildings
during
Examinations
[/margin]

"Perfect quietness being essential to the proper
conducting of the Examinations notice is hereby given
that this building is closed to all persons whatsoever
not engaged in the Examinations except by special
permission and that for very special reasons".

The Secretary of the Senate was instructed to
write to the Demonstrator of Anatomy, that the Senate
desire him to take special care that none, except those
who are engaged in dissection, be admitted to the dissecting
room.

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Committee to
draft Bylaws
for the Medical
Faculty
[/margin]

The Senate appointed the Principal, Professors
Horatio Yates, Fowler and Murray a Committee to prepare
a code of By Laws with respect to the Medical Faculty,
the Principal to act as chairman.

The Senate considered further the case of Mr. Noel

It was then moved by Professor Murray, seconded
by Professor Fowler,
That the Senate, having considered the complaint of
Professor Bell against Mr. John V. Noel, B.A. and the
statement of Mr. Noel in reply, find as follows:

That the language of Mr.
Noel, as admitted in his own statement, is highly improper in
itself, unbecoming in a Graduate and a student of Mr. Noel's
standing, disrespectful to Professor Bell and his colleagues,
and that it consitutes a serious act of insubordination.

Be it therefore resolved
That Mr Noel be rusticated from this University
for one year from this date.

It was moved as an amendment by Professor Williamson,
seconded by Professor Horatio Yates,
That the Senate, having further considered the
matter of Professor Bell's complaint against John V. Noel

J. Clark Murray, Secretary