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at the University he is required to take the Basic R. 0. T. C. courses.
During his junior and senior years he may elect three credit hours in
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps each term.

The Department of Physical Education and Recreation works in
co-operation with the military department and supervises all physical
training, general recreation, and intercollegiate athletics.

The Summer School of six weeks offers courses in subjects given in
any of the schools during the regular session of the University, with
the exception of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Law, and in
special subjects, such as school administration, classroom management
and principles of secondary education for high school and elementary
school teachers. Certain courses given in the Summer School are of
collegiate grade and may be counted toward the bachelor’s degree.
Advanced courses may count toward the master’s degree.

The work in Medicine, Pharmacy, Law, Dentistry and Business Ad
ministration is given in schools in Baltimore. The University Hospital
is also located in that city.


History.

The history of the present University of Maryland combines the
histories of two institutions. It begins with the chartering of the
College of Medicine of Maryland in Baltimore in 1807, which gradti
ated its first class in 1810. In 1812 the institution was empowered to
annex other departments and was by the same act “constituted an
University by the name and under the title of’ the University of
Maryland.”

The Medical School building in Baltimore, located at Lombard and
Greene Strets, erected in 1814-1815, is the oldest structure in America
devoted to medical teaching.

For more than a century the University of Maryland stood almost
as organized in 1812, until an Act of the Legislature of 1920 merged
it with the Maryland State College and changed the name of the
Maryland State College to the University of Maryland. All the prop
erty formerly held by the old University of Maryland was turned over
to the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State College, and made the
Board of Trustees the Board of Regents of the new university.

The Maryland State College first was chartered in 1856 under the
name of the Maryland Agricultural College, the second agricultural
college in the Western Hemisphere. For three years the college was
under private management. In 1862 the Congress of the United States,
recognizing the practical value and increasing need of such colleges,
passed the Land Grant Act. This Act granted each State and Ter
ritory that should claim its benefits a proportionate amount of un
claimed Western lands, in place of scrip, the proceeds from the sale
of which should apply under certain conditions to the “endowment,
support and maintenance of at least one college of which the leading
object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies,
and including military tactics, to each such branches of learning as
are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as
the Legislatures of the State may respectively prescribe, in order to
promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes
in the several pursuits and professions of life.” This grant was


accepted by the General Assembly of Maryland. The Maryland Agri
cultural College was named as the beneficiary of the grant. Thus the
College became, at least in part, a State institution. In the fall of