The University

The University of Maryland is the State university and the "Land-
Grant" institution of Maryland.

The present University of Maryland is the result of the merger of
the former privately owned University of Maryland located in Balti-
more with the former Maryland State College at College Park. The
first institution was founded in 1807 as the College of Medicine of
Maryland. In 1812 the General Assembly passed an act enabling the
College of Medicine to enlarge its curriculum and changed its name
to the University of Maryland. Subsequently, faculties of law (1823),
dentistry (1882), nursing (1889), and pharmacy (1904) were added.
The Maryland State College was founded as the Maryland Agricul-
tural College, a private institution at College Park, in 1856. This
school became the beneficiary of the Land-Grant Act of 1862. In
1914, the State assumed complete control of the school and in 1916
a new charter, which renamed the school as the Maryland State
College, was granted by the State Legislature. The General Assembly
consolidated the University of Maryland and the Maryland State
College in 1920 and gave the name University of Maryland to the new
school.

The University is under the administration of a Board of Regents
consisting of eleven members appointed by the Governor for a term
of nine years. The Board appoints the President of the University
who also serves as chief administrative officer of the Board. The
Board of Regents has the power within the limits prescribed by law
to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of erecting dormitories and
other student housing facilities, student union buildings (at College
Park and Baltimore) and a combination physical education and audi-
torium building. Such bonds are to be issued directly by the Regents.
The payment of the principal and interest of the bonds are to be met
from revenue realized from the use of the buildings (Code 1951, Art.
77, sees. 241-251).

The main campus of the University is located at College Park.
Instruction is given here in the undergraduate and graduate courses
of the College of Agriculture, College of Military Science and Tactics,
College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Public Admin-
istration, College of Engineering and Aeronautical Sciences, College
of Home Economics and the College of Physical Education, Recreation
and Health. Also located at College Park are the Graduate School,
the Summer School and the offices of the College of Special and
Continuation Studies.

Professional Schools

The professional schools of the University of Maryland comprising
the schools of Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, to-
gether with the University Hospital, are located in Baltimore at
Lombard and Greene Streets. The College of Special and Continua-
tion Studies also offers courses here.

Maryland State College—Division of the University of Maryland

John T. Williams, Ed.D., President
Princess Anne Telephone: Princess Anne 780

The Maryland State College, Division of the University of Mary-
land, (formerly Princess Anne College) is the Land-Grant college of