304 State Papers and Addresses

The work of the University of Maryland is so closely interwoven with that
of the Maryland State Board of Agriculture that it is virtually one and the
same. In the organization of the University and the State Board of Agri-
culture, this achievement evidently was intended, and it now seems finally to
have been brought into actual effect, so that the farm and agricultural interests
of the State are receiving the benefits originally designated for them. This
coordination has been fully effected during the past two years.

The growth of the physical plant of the University in the last two years
has been very noteworthy. During this period, new classrooms, new labora-
tories, new office space have been provided for virtually all departments, and
in every particular, the University has the facilities for giving better service
to the people of the State and for providing higher quality of teaching.

In the last two years the total additions to old buildings, and new buildings
constructed, number seventeen. Three of these new buildings have been con-
structed at Princess Anne for the special benefit of Negro education in Mechani-
cal Arts, Home Economics and Agriculture.

. In Baltimore, new floors have been added to the University Hospital, a new
building for medical research has been constructed, and additions to the Nurses'
Home and Dental Building have been completed.

At College Park, an addition to the old Engineering Building has been
constructed and this building now is being used as an Arts and Science Build-
ing, Engineering having been transferred to the old Arts and Science Building.

An Administration Building, an addition to the Dining Hall, an addition
to the Infirmary, new Men's Dormitories, remodelling of the Dairy Building,
a new Home Economics Building, a new Poultry Building and Poultry Plant,
and a new building to house the Plant Maintenance departments have been
erected.

Specially noteworthy from an agricultural point of view has been the com-
pletion of one of the most modern livestock plants in the Country at College
Park, and it is further noteworthy to agriculture that there is now being
erected a series of new barns on the field crops and horticultural farm.

The educational advancement of the University has kept pace with the
advancement in physical facilities. Evidence of this is contained in the fact
that the University courses in Engineering have been accredited by the national
Engineering organization for such accrediting, and also the College of Com-
merce has been accredited as a member of the American Association of Col-
legiate Schools of Business, and has also become a member of the American
Conference of State University Schools of Business. The University of Mary-
land College of Commerce is the only institution of this kind now accredited in
this region.

Of particular note, also, has been the further coordination and develop-
ment of library facilities of the University, which have been, and always will be,
the backbone of any educational organization.

The University cooperates with industry in carrying on research for its
benefit, and an increasing number of grants from industries to the University
are being received. This research in the last two years has ranged from tests
on explosives for the Federal Government to research in the production of oils;
from attempts to find methods to control diseases of animals to the discovery
of a new type of anesthesia.