Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 13 January 2016

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 22 January 2016.

1. That the regulations for the Butterfield Studentship (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 760) be amended so as to read:1

1. The sum of £10,000 received under the will of Verena Nan Robertson McCririck shall form a fund called the McCririck Fund, which shall be used to assist students undertaking research in the field of Diabetes.

2. The income of the Fund shall be used to provide a studentship each year called the Butterfield Studentship, in honour of Lord Butterfield of Stechford, M.D., formerly Regius Professor of Physic and Master of Downing College.

3. Candidature for the Studentship shall be open to any person who is, or is about to be, registered as a Graduate Student in the University, and who is undertaking, or proposes to undertake, research in the field of Diabetes.

4. The Awarders of the Studentship shall be the Regius Professor of Physic, the Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, and one person appointed in the Michaelmas Term by the General Board on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine to serve for four years from 1 January following the appointment.

5. The Studentship shall be tenable for such term up to four years as the Managers shall determine, subject to the Student’s progress being deemed satisfactory by the Awarders.

6. The value of the Studentship shall be the annual income of the Fund, provided that the Awarders may award a Studentship of lesser value within a range approved by the Council if they think fit and after they have taken account of any other financial resources that may be available to the Student.

7. At the discretion of the Awarders and with due regard to the available Fund income, any part of the income of the Fund not expended in any year may be applied from time to time, at the discretion of the Awarders, and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, to make temporary provision for additional Studentships, which may run concurrently or consecutively with any other Studentships awarded from the Fund.

8. Any unexpended income at the end of a financial year shall be added to the capital of the Fund.

2. That the regulations for the E. G. Fearnsides Scholarship (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 794) be amended so as to read:1

1. This Scholarship, founded and endowed by the members of the Fearnsides family in memory of E. G. Fearnsides, M.A. (Trinity Hall), M.D., FRCP, who was drowned at Four Mile Bridge, Anglesey, on 26 June 1919, shall be called the E. G. Fearnsides Research Scholarship and shall be devoted to the encouragement of original clinical research on the organic diseases of the nervous system.

2. The administration of the Fund shall be entrusted to Managers, comprising the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, in consultation with the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine.

3. The Managers may delegate all or any of their functions concerning the Fund to a Committee not necessarily consisting wholly of members of the Faculty Board.

4. The Scholarship, and any additional Scholarships awarded under Regulation 5, shall be called the E. G. Fearnsides Scholarship, the holders of which shall undertake postgraduate clinical research on the organic diseases of the nervous system.

5. The value of the Scholarship shall be determined by the Managers, within a range approved from time to time by the Council, after they have taken account of any other financial resources that may be available to the Student, provided that at the discretion of the Managers and with due regard to the available Fund income the Managers may use such part of the available income as they shall determine:

(a)to award more than one Scholarship, which may run concurrently or consecutively with any other Scholarships awarded from the Fund; and

(b)(whether or not any Scholarships are awarded) to make grants to members of the University engaged in clinical research on the organic diseases of the nervous system towards meeting the cost of equipment and other expenses including travel expenses incurred by them in the course of their research under a procedure determined by the Faculty Board.

6. The Managers may take such steps as they may think fit to ascertain the qualifications of the candidates. Preference shall be given to graduates in Medicine or Veterinary Medicine.

7. Scholarships shall be tenable for such period not exceeding four years as the Managers shall in each case determine.

8. The conditions under which research is to be conducted and the place or places in which it is to be carried on shall be determined by the Managers.

9. The procedure for the election of Scholars and the award of grants shall be determined by the Managers.

10. These regulations, except Regulation 1, shall be subject to alteration by Grace, but in the lifetime of William G. Fearnsides only after consultation with him and so always that the principal object of the Fund, namely, the encouragement of clinical research on the organic diseases of the nervous system, may be attained.

3. That in Regulation 2 for the Gladstone Memorial Prize (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 805) the reference to ‘Part IIb of the Social and Political Sciences Tripos’ be replaced by reference to ‘Part IIb for Politics and International Relations in the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos’.2

4. That the regulations for the Pinsent-Darwin Fund and Studentship (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 887) be amended so as to read:1

1. The sum of £5,000 given to the University in 1924 by Mrs Pinsent and Sir Horace and the Honourable Lady Darwin, and the assets of the Darwin Trust, which was endowed by Miss Ruth Darwin in 1929 and was transferred to the University in 1959 by the Governors of that Trust, shall form a fund to be called the Pinsent-Darwin Fund.

2. The income of the Fund shall be applied to endow a Studentship to be called the Pinsent-Darwin Studentship in Mental Pathology, the holder of which shall undertake original research into any problem which may have a bearing on mental defects, diseases, or disorders.

3. The administration of the income of the Fund shall be entrusted to ten Managers, namely: the Regius Professor of Physic, the Professor of Pathology, the Professor of Experimental Psychology, the Professor of Psychiatry, the University Lecturer in Psychopathology, a member of the Education Committee of the County of Cambridgeshire appointed by that Committee, and four persons appointed, one by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, one by the Faculty Board of Biology, and two by the Managers themselves. The Managers shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment.

4. No resolution of the Managers shall be valid unless approved by at least three Managers at a meeting to which all the Managers have been summoned.

5. The value of the Studentship shall be such sum as may be determined by the Managers, after they have taken account of any other financial resources that may be available to the Student, within a range approved by the Council, provided that at the discretion of the Managers and with due regard to the available Fund income, any part of the income of the Fund not expended in any year shall be accumulated by investment or otherwise, and any such accumulation shall be applied from time to time, at the discretion of the Managers, and subject to such conditions as they may think fit,

(a)to increase the value of the Studentship;

(b)to make grants to Students or to other persons for any special purpose;

(c)to make temporary provision for additional Studentships, which may run concurrently or consecutively with any other Studentships awarded from the Fund;

(d)in any other manner;

provided always that the principal object of the Fund, namely the encouragement of research into any problem which may have a bearing on mental defects, diseases, or disorders, is maintained.

6. In the event of further benefactions being offered to the University for the same or for similar objects, it shall be within the power of the University to add such benefactions either to the capital or to the accumulated income of the Fund.

7. The procedure for election to the Studentship and for the award of grants shall be determined by the Managers.

8. Candidature for the Studentship shall be open, but Students, if not members of the University, must become such no later than one year after election and remain such during tenure. The Managers may take such steps as they think fit to ascertain the qualifications of the candidates.

9. A Studentship shall be tenable for such period not exceeding four years as the Managers shall determine at the time of the election. A Student who is appointed for less than four years in the first instance shall be re-eligible, provided that no Student shall hold the Studentship for more than four years in all.

10. A Student, during the tenure of her or his Studentship, shall engage in original research. He or she shall be allowed to carry on educational or other work with the consent of the Managers. In any books, papers, or other publications in which a Student may publish the results of the investigations carried on during the tenure of Studentship, the Student shall, where practicable, use the title ‘Pinsent-Darwin Student’.

11. The research work shall be carried out in Cambridge, or elsewhere with the consent of the Managers, and shall be subject to such conditions as the Managers may impose.

12. The Managers may appoint one of their number, or some other person, to supervise the work of a Student, and may pay a fee for such supervision out of the income of the Fund.

13. It shall be the duty of the Student to write a statement of the work carried out during each year and to submit this to the Managers.

14. If the Managers shall be of the opinion that, through any cause, a Student is not fulfilling and is not likely to fulfil the objects of the Studentship, they may, if they see fit, remove the Student from the Studentship.

Grace to be submitted to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on 23 January 2016

The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Grace to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 23 January 2016.

1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.1