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.

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.

The Extension Service is represented in each county of the State
by a county agent and in all but a few counties by a home demonstra-
tion agent. Through these agents and its staff of specialists, the Ex-
tension Service comes into intimate contact with rural people and
with the problems of the farm and home.

Practically every phase of agriculture and rural home life comes
within the scope of the work undertaken by the Extension Service.
Farmers are supplied with details of crop and livestock production, and
with instructions for controlling disease and insect pests; they are en-
couraged and aided in organized effort, helped with marketing prob-
lems, and in every way possible assisted in improving economic con-
ditions on the farm.

The Extension Service works in accord with all other branches of
the University of Maryland and with all agencies of the United States