MARYLAND MANUAL. 25
Under Chapter 480, Acts 1920, the old University of Maryland was,
on July 1, 1920, consolidated with the Maryland State College, under
the former name.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
The University of Maryland is located at College Park in Prince
George's County, on the line of the Washington Branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, eight miles from Washington and thirty-two
miles from Baltimore. The grounds front on the Baltimore and Wash-
ington Boulevard. The Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and
Law of the University are located in Baltimore at the corner of Lom-
bard and Greene Streets.
Administration.
The government of the University is vested by law primarily in
a Board of Regents, consisting of nine members appointed by the
Governor for terms of nine years.
The administration of the University is vested in the President
The University Council, composed of the President, the assistant to
the President, the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station,
and the Director of the Agricultural and Home Economics Extension
Service, and the Deans, acts as an advisory board to the President on
all phases of University work. The faculty of each college or school
constitutes a faculty council, which passes on all questions that have
exclusive relationship to the unit represented.
The university is organized into the following units;
College of Agriculture.
College of Engineering.
College of Arts and Sciences.
School of Medicine.
School of Law.
School of Commerce.
School of Dentistry.
School of Pharmacy.
College of Education.
College of Home Economics.
The Graduate School
The Summer School.
Extension Courses in Commerce and Business Administration.
Department of Military Science and Tactics.
Department of Physical Education and Recreation.
The College of Agriculture offers curricula in: (1) General Agri-
culture; (2) Agronomy; (3) Botany; (4) Farm Management; (9)
Geology and Soils; (6) Pomology; (7) Vegetable Gardening; (8)
Floriculture; (9) Landscape Gardening; (10) Economic Zoology; (11)
Two-Year Agriculture; (12) Animal Husbandry.
The College of Education offers curricula in: (1) Agricultural
Education; (2) Home Economics Education; (3) Industrial Educa-
tion; (4) General Education.
The College of Engineering offers curricula in: (1) Civil Engi-
neering; (2) Mechanical Engineering; (3) Electrical Engineering; (4)
Highway Engineering; (5) Sanitary Engineering.
The Graduate School offers courses in any of the subjects in which
a graduate may desire to obtain advanced degrees. The Graduate
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