T. A. Hutton, A.B., Purchasing Agent.

Robert E. Wysor, Jr., Col. Inf. U. S.. Army, Commandant of the De-
partment of Military Science and Tactics.
Alma H. Preinkert, M.A., Registrar.
Carl W. E. Hintz, Librarian.

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, or to develop private business.

The instructional work of I he 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, Political Science, Mathematics,
Modern Languages, Philosophy, Physics, Public Speaking, 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.

HISTORY

The history of the present University of Maryland, until the merger
of 1920, is the history of two institutions. These were the old University
of Maryland in Baltimore and the Maryland State College (formerly Mary-
land 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