The College of Agriculture includes the following departments:
Agricultural Economics; Agronomy (including Crops and Soils) ; Ani-
mal Husbandry; Bacteriology; Botany, Dairy Husbandry; Entomology
and Bee Culture; Farm Forestry; Farm Management; Farm Mechan-
ics; Genetics and Statistics; Horticulture (including Pomology; Vege-
table Gardening, Landscape Gardening and Floriculture) ; Plant Path-
ology; Plant Physiology and Bio-chemistry; Poultry Husbandry.

The College of Commerce provides professional training in eco-
nomics and business administration for those who plan to become
executives, teachers, or investigators in commercial, industrial, agri-
cultural, or government economic enterprises.

The instructional work of the College of Education is conducted by
five functional divisions or departments; History and Principles of
Education; Methods in Academic and Scientific Subjects, Agricultural
Education, Home Economics Education, and Industrial Education.

The College of Engineering includes the Departments of Civil, Elec-
trical and Mechanical Engineering.

Graduate work is offered, under the supervision'' of the Dean of the
Graduate School, by competent members of the various faculties of
instruction and research.

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. 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.

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