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-
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 where the leading
object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies,
and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as
are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such a manner as
the Legislature of the States 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, and the Maryland Agricultural
College was named as the beneficiary of the grant. Thus the College be-
came, at least in part, a State institution. In the fall of 1914 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.

In 1920, by an act of the State Legislature, the University of Mary-
land was merged with the Maryland State College, and the name of
the latter was changed to the University of Maryland.

All the property formerly held by the old University of Maryland
was turned over to the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Col-
lege, and the name was changed to the Board of Regents of the Uni-
versity of Maryland. Under this charter every power is granted nec-
essary to carry on an institution of higher learning and research. It
provides that the University shall receive and administer all existing
grants from the Federal Government for education and research and
all future grants which may come to the State from this source. The
University is co-educational in all its branches.

Extension and Research.
Agriculture and Home Economics.

The Extension Service is that branch of the University of Mary-
land, established by Federal and State law, which is designed to assist
the farmer and his family in promoting the prosperity and welfare of
agriculture and rural life. Its work is conducted in co-operation with
the United States Department of Agriculture.