{"id":108,"date":"2015-04-13T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-04-13T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:40:36","slug":"fairbairn-as-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/2015\/04\/13\/fairbairn-as-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbairn as Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the academic year 1907\/8, the 17 year old WRD Fairbairn matriculated to study in the Arts Faculty at the University of Edinburgh.\u00a0 This followed 11 years schooling at Merchiston Castle (6 in Preparatory and 5 in the Upper School), gaining a leaving certificate comprising English, Latin, Greek, French and Mathematics. He continued both Latin and Greek during his first year of study at university, and took on Zoology as a third subject.\u00a0 Subsequent years comprised courses in Logic, Moral Philosophy, Advanced Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, Advanced Logic and Greek Philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>In 1918, at the age of 29, Fairbairn returned to Higher Education. This time, he enrolled to study in the Faculty of Medicine.\u00a0 Part of the intervening period had included war service.\u00a0 The Roll of Honour records that he had served in the Merchiston Castle Officer Training Corps while a pupil there and that he had served in the OTC Engineers between May and November 1915 as a cadet. From November 1915, he was 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery (Territorial), achieving Lieutenant the following year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/files\/2015\/04\/fairbairn_sig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/files\/2015\/04\/fairbairn_sig-1024x271.jpg\" alt=\"Fairbairn's signature, taken from his graduation record\" width=\"1024\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/files\/2015\/04\/fairbairn_sig-1024x271.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/files\/2015\/04\/fairbairn_sig-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/files\/2015\/04\/fairbairn_sig.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He graduated MBChB in 1923.\u00a0 His marks show strengths in some areas and perhaps a lower ability in others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/files\/2015\/04\/fairbairn-1923.pdf\">View Fairbairn&#8217;s full graduation record (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He continued his studies and achieved his MD in 1926, his thesis being <em>Relationship of dissociation and repression considered from the point of view of medical psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fairbairn's MD thesis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/1842\/9999\">View his MD Thesis (external link)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the academic year 1907\/8, the 17 year old WRD Fairbairn matriculated to study in the Arts Faculty at the University of Edinburgh.\u00a0 This followed 11 years schooling at Merchiston Castle (6 in Preparatory and 5 in the Upper School), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/2015\/04\/13\/fairbairn-as-student\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[4,15,2],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/fairbairn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}