Testimonials Testimonials in Favour of the Rev. Adam Semple, M.A., B.D., Candidate for the Office of Examiner in Mental Science in the University of Glasgow

Glasgow [?privately printed] 1873. 8vo, 196 x 128 mms., pp. 8, original pink wrappers (slightly soiled). This pamphlet gives a glimpse into the nuts-and-bolts process of choosing an applicant for a job in academic philosophy in nineteenth-century Scotland. Our candidate, Adam Semple, appears to have been eminently successful in this instance, as he is known to have indeed been the Examiner in Mental Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1873 to 1876 (<http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH16217&type=P&o=&start=0&max=99197&l=s>). Among those offering endorsements of Rev. Semple's qualifications are the Scottish philosopher Edward Caird (1835-1908) and one from the influential Scottish logician and poet John Veitch (1829-1894). Caird actually states, "I do not think we could have a better examiner." How very different from the process many of us who spent some time in a Scottish university experienced. Not in COPAC, WorldCat, KVK, Library of Congress, or British Library. No other copy located.