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MARYLAND MANUAL. 27

tary, secondary, and vocational; special students, as farmers, breeders,
dairymen, homemakers, chemists, public speakers, graduate students;
and students who are candidates for degrees in agriculture, arts and
sciences, education, engineering, and home economics.

The work in Medicine, Pharmacy, Law, Dentistry and Nursing 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 gradu-
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 Hempisphere. 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
1914 its control was taken over entirely by the State. In 1916 the
General Assembly granted a new charter to the College and made it
the Maryland State College.

Under the new charter, which made the State College a university,
the institution is co-educational. Every power is granted necessary
to develop an institution of higher learning and research. This is in
full accord with the Morrill Act of the National Congress and the
subsequent acts above referred to. The charter provides that it shall
receive and administer all grants from the national government.

 

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