28 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 6

ship. It is time for the State to insist that all children of
school age shall have at least a minimum education and train-
ing. There appear no sufficient reasons for delaying the pas-
sage of a law, state-wide and mandatory, requiring all children
not otherwise being educated in the ordinary common school
subjects, between the ages of eight and fourteen, to attend some
public school at least one hundred days each year.

In order to standardize teaching and provide adequate sala-
ries for such as meet reasonable qualifications, the certification
of teachers should be a sole function of the State Department
of Education. So long as there are as many measures of proper "
qualifications as there are counties in the State there cannot be
evolved a rational basis for measuring scholastic and technical
requirements,

The State and County school systems are sorely in need of
trained supervisors. We cannot expect maximum efficiency in
our schools until some plan of close supervision shall have been
inaugurated. School room results can be improved twenty-five
per cent., at least, by providing capable supervisors.

With all the counties of the State (except one) provided
with high schools which receive generous aid from the State, we
have reached the time when scholarships to normal schools and
other state-aided institutions of learning should be conditioned
on graduation from an approved high school, or its equivalent.

There ought to be a more up-to-date and equitable basis for
apportioning the state school funds. As this money is intended
solely for children who are school pupils, it would seem right
to base the apportionment of the state school tax upon the
number of pupils between the ages of six to fifteen years, rather
than on persons from five to twenty years of age, whether
pupils or not.

MARYLAND STATE UNIVERSITY.

By Chapter 198, of the Acts of 1914, of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, there was created and incorporated the Mary-
land State University, providing for the affiliation with the
State University of the other universities, colleges, etc., and to
provide a method of government for this corporation. Accord-