MARYLAND MANUAL 57.
eminent of the University is vested by law in the Regents. The ad-
ministration of the University is vested in the President (Code 1947
Supp. Art. 77, sec. 235)..
The University of Maryland is located at College Park, in Prince
George's County, eight miles from Washington and thirty-two miles
from Baltimore. The campus fronts on the Baltimore-Washington
Boulevard. The Professional Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy,
Dentistry, and Law, and the University Hospital, are located in Balti-
more in the vicinity of Lombard and Greene Streets. The Maryland
State College is the division of the University of Maryland for
Negroes, and is located at Princess Anne in Somerset County. It is
the Negro land grant college of Maryland, and is so recognized by the
United States Office of Education..
College Park.
The College of Agriculture includes the following departments:
Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Economics and Farm Man-
agement, Agricultural Education and Rural Life, Agricultural Engi-
neering, Agronomy (including Crops and Soils), Animal Husbandry,
Botany, Dairy Husbandry, Entomology and Bee Culture, Horticul-
ture including Pomology, Vegetable Gardening, Landscape Gardening
and Floriculture, Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology and Bio-Chem-
istry, Poultry Husbandry, and Veterinary Science..
The College of Business and Public Administration provides profes-
sional training in economics and business administration for students
who plan to be in executive, teaching, investigating or administrative
positions..
The College of Education offers seven curricula as follows: aca-
demic, business education, elementary education, home economics edu-
cation, nursery school education, industrial education, and physical
education..
The College of Enginering includes the Departments of Chemical,
Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering..
Graduate work is offered, under the supervision of the Dean of
the Graduate School, by members of the various faculties of instruc-
tion and research..
The College of Home Economics is organized into the Department
of Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, Home and Institutional
Management, and Practical Arts..
The College of Arts and Sciences is divided into one Lower Divi-
sion and four Upper Divisions. Under the latter are grouped the
following departments :.
A. The Divisions of Biological Sciences: Bacteriology, Botany,
Entomology, Genetics, and Zoology..
B. The Division of Humanities: Art, Classical Languages and
Literatures, Comparative Literature, English Literature and Phi-
lology, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Music, Philosophy, and
Speech..
C. The Division of Physical Sciences: Astronomy, Chemistry, Ge-
ology, Mathematics, and Physics..
D. The Division of Social Sciences: Economics, History, Political
Science, Psychology, and Sociology..
The Department of Military Science and Tactics has charge of the
work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit established by the
War Department. Students are required to take the Basic R.O.T.C.
courses..
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