| Administrative History | Prior to the 1890s, the Arts Class students matriculating in any one year at a Scottish university would expect to study together in close proximity for four years until graduation. Numbers were limited and all the members of the Arts Class would know each other. Under the Universities (Scotland) Act of 1892, the Arts curriculum in universities was greatly expanded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Students had a greater choice of subjects to make up their degree course, student numbers increased, particularly after the First World War, and gradually the sense of the 'Arts Class' diminished, leaving people more loyal to and familiar with the classmates of specific subject groups. |
| Description | Aberdeen University Arts Class, 1902 - 1906: papers concerning reunions; record of class with newscuttings (mostly obituaries), 1906 - 1955.Aberdeen University Arts Class, 1914 - 1918: papers concerning reunions, 1924 - 1965; card index of class members, c 1930; students' handbook 1914 - 1915; students' handbook 1920 - 1921; programme for Elphinstone Quincentenary, 1931. |