the educational structure, has been replaced in most states by the four-
year teachers college. The teachers college in turn is now disappearing.
In many states these institutions have become state colleges, serving
regional educational demands while retaining the original responsibility
of educating teachers. In several states teachers colleges have been desig-
nated as 'state universities'. Meantime, state agricultural colleges, or
state colleges as many are called, are becoming universities. "

Well, this question of organization in Maryland today remains largely
unresolved. At the request of the General Assembly, however, I have
appointed another commission which is now studying the broad field of
public higher education in the State. I have every confidence that this
Commission, headed by John Curlett, President of the Baltimore City
School Board, will chart a course for the expansion of public higher
education in Maryland on a coordinated, efficient and economical basis.
Meanwhile, we will continue to meet our year-to-year needs with the
orderly expansion of the University of Maryland, Morgan State College,
the state teachers colleges and the other institutions operated by the
State.

Broad steps were taken this year to encourage the establishment of
junior colleges and to improve the State's scholarship program. One
bill enacted by the General Assembly this year commits the State to pay
one-third of the cost of operating the junior colleges of Baltimore City
and the counties. Another authorizes the State to borrow $5 million to
assist the city and the counties in the construction of new junior college
plants. Also enacted at this session was legislation creating 600 new
State scholarships for colleges and universities within the State. Unlike
previous State scholarships, the new ones will not be assigned to desig-
nated schools, but instead those to whom the scholarships are granted
will be privileged to choose a college or university within the borders of
the State.

The burden of our task in State government, as I indicated earlier in
this discourse, is eased by the knowledge that we may expect the con-
tinued cooperation of Washington College and the other private insti-
tutions of Maryland in our undertaking. I am advised that most of
them, just as you are here, have plans for expansion to accommodate at
least a part of the anticipated heavy influx of students in the years ahead.
In this connection, Maryland has been most fortunate in the inter-
dependence and close association of public and private colleges and
universities within its borders.

An interesting point in the history of our State—a point with which

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