Ordinary Professor

Abstract

In January 1894, the university was again disrupted by a typical student disturbance. According to the rector, the trouble started with a false notion that the Academic Council had vetoed a proposal for a special examination period, permission for which, at any rate, would have had to come from the Minister of Public Instruction. So, on Monday, 22 January, and the following day the students “began to shout, stopped classes, forced their way into the Great Hall, breaking down the door, and shortly after left, making a great noise, and began their usual round of the city with the purpose of halting classes in the various institutes connected with the university.” As a result, the university was closed on 23 January and reopened on 8 February, following the publication on 5 February of a manifesto of the rector advising the students that he had government authorization, should the university have to be closed again because of disturbances, to call off the summer examination session as well as take other steps thought necessary. It apparently worked; there were no more disturbances that year, and on 4 May the Academic Council set dates for both the summer and fall examination periods.