{"id":1535,"date":"2020-10-08T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:06","slug":"the-early-years-of-the-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-early-years-of-the-university\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Years of the University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering in its treatment of women, applauded by the world&#8217;s worst poet, appointed a first principal who was only 26 &#8211; find out about the early years of the University of Dundee and some notable students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1536\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/cms-2-134-Botany-students-and-Prof-Geddes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1536 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/cms-2-134-Botany-students-and-Prof-Geddes.jpg\" alt=\"Botany students\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/cms-2-134-Botany-students-and-Prof-Geddes.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/cms-2-134-Botany-students-and-Prof-Geddes-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/cms-2-134-Botany-students-and-Prof-Geddes-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/cms-2-134-Botany-students-and-Prof-Geddes-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/cms-2-134-Botany-students-and-Prof-Geddes-1536x1117.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early botany students and Professor Patrick Geddes, often known as the father of town planning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">This video by Kenneth of Archive Services takes us back to the foundation of University College Dundee in 1881 and looks at the lives of some early staff and students who went on to do great things from social reform to early aviation and the invention of radar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"University of Dundee Archive Services - University College&#039;s first years &amp; notable students\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGOEVtoX_cw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering in its treatment of women, applauded by the world&#8217;s worst poet, appointed a first principal who was only 26 &#8211; find out about the early years of the University of Dundee and some notable students. This video by Kenneth of Archive Services takes us back to the foundation of University College Dundee in 1881 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-history"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}