The College of Home Economics is organized into the Department
of Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, and Home and Institu-
tional Management.

There are eleven university departments under the administrative
control of the College of Arts and Sciences: Classical Languages,
Chemistry, Sociology, English, History and Political Science, Mathe-
matics, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Physics, Public Speaking, and
Zoology and Agriculture.

The Department of Military Science and Tactics has charge of the
work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit established by the
War Department. During the first two years of the student's stay at
the University he is required to take the Basic R. O. 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.

A summer session of six weeks is conducted at College Park. The
program is designed to serve the needs of three classes of students;
teachers and supervisors of the several classes of school work—ele-
mentary, 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, until they were
merged in 1920, is the history of two institutions. These were the old
University of Maryland in Baltimore and the Maryland State College
(formerly Maryland Agricultural College) in College Park.

The beginning of this history was in 1807, when a charter was
granted to the College of Medicine of Maryland. The first class was
graduated in 1810. A permanent home was established in 1814-1815
by the erection of the building at Lombard and Greene Streets in Bal-
timore, the oldest structure in America devoted to medical teaching.
Here was founded one of the first medical libraries (and the first medi-
cal school library) in the United States. In 1812 the General Assembly
of Maryland authorized the College of Medicine of Maryland to "annex
or constitute faculties of divinity, law, and arts and sciences," and by
the same act declared that the "colleges or faculties thus united should
be constituted an university by the name and under the title of the
University of Maryland." By authority of this act, steps were taken
in 1813 to establish a "faculty of law," and in 1823 a regular school of
instruction in law was opened. Subsequently there were added a college
of dentistry, a school of pharmacy, and a school of nursing. No sig-
nificant change in the organization of the University occurred until
1920, more than one hundred years after the original establishment
in 1812..

The Maryland State College 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
passed the Land Grant Act. This act granted each State and Terri-
tory that should claim its benefits a proportionate amount of un-