564 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 1

At the present time there are eight recent graduates
who have been appointed by the President as Second-
Lieutenants and who are now serving with their regi-
ments in the Philipine Islands.

It is therefore maintained that in sending out annually
into the various professions and occupations of life a
number of Alumni well educated and trained upon the
lines of instruction indicated above, and who for the
most part continue to reside in Maryland, the College is
doing a work of highest benefit to the State, and is
strictly fulfilling the object specified in its charter, viz.:
" To train up and perpetuate a succession of able and
honest men for discharging the various offices and duties
of life, both civil and religious, with usefulness and repu-
tation.

Students as Teachers.

Inasmuch as the college has for many years been en-
gaged in training young men to act as teachers in the
public schools of the State, I would incidentally mention
that, in my opinion, an alteration should be made in the
existing law which requires graduated students of St.
John's College to pass au examination under the county
examiners before they can be eligible to teach in any
county of the State.

It is a manifest injustice that graduates of St. John's
while recognized in every university of the land and ac-
corded a standing by virtue of their diploma to all post-
graduate work, should yet be denied any recognition in
the public school system of our own State. This puts
them at a disadvantage in comparison with graduates of
the Normal School, who are not again examined before
receiving a teacher's certificate; and also with graduates
of Washington College, who are empowered by the Gen-
eral Assembly of 1896 to teach without undergoing a spe-
cial examination at the hands of the county school exam-
iners.

The same privilege of exemption should be, accorded
those who possess a diploma of graduation from St.
John's College.

Course of Study.

The course of study in each class is specified in de-
tail in the annual catalogue of the college for 1898-99,