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versity, where he ranks with the first men in the State. If we
combine the Normal School with a college in the United States,
and give to our Primary School teachers a regular college educa-
tion, we have all the elements on hand that are required to raise
the profession of a Primary School teacher. For his pupils are
not only future peasants and mechanics, but for all he knows fu-
ture presidents and governors. Secondly, his own individual
worth is increased, for his mind is stocked with rich treasures of
knowledge during his stay at the college, and the whole tone of
his demeanor improved. Finally, he has the road open to him as
a teacher in the Academies, and if he sufficiently distinguishes
himself, as a Professor in one of the colleges; this latter pros-
pect will also secure his services to the cause of education, if they
are at all desirable, and will make him willing to serve for a num-
ber of years in the capacity of Primary School teacher.

Assuming it as proved, that for our own Country, at least, there
is not only no antagonism in the idea of a Training School for
teachers in connection with a college, but that such a connection
is essential to the perfection of the plan, we would submit a few
reasons why in our judgment, your own seat of learning is a par-
ticularly suitable plan for its establishment. Its location, in one
of Maryland's oldest cities, amid many remnants of antiquity is
well calculated to inspire the youth who attend her schools with
ideas of permanence and stability. The pictures of her heroic
sons as they look down upon them from the walls of that conse-
crated chamber in which the great Washington taught his coun-
trymen the highest lessons that the citizen can learn, must instill
into them the most loyal patriotism to the State, that gave them
birth. Its nearness to that great Scientific School which the Na-
tional Government so kindly fosters, with its corps of learned pro-
fessors, its library and philosophical apparatus, and to your State
halls and courts, and library, cannot fail to cultivate in its pupils
a love for science, for eloquence and for books. The rich furnish-
ment of the college itself, with geological and mineralogical curi-
osities, with philosophical and chemical apparatus must help to
nurture the same high spirit.

Its position at the seat of Government of the State, subjects it
to the immediate supervision of the State authorities, under the
very eye of the Governor and Legislature, its whole life must be
open to their direct cognizance. Its central position makes the
Institution located here by the wisdom of our Ancestors in the
very time of the Father of his Country, and under his patronage,
the national centre of the body—educational—its ideal history,
as founded on the King William School, whose highest act of
charity was the gift to the State of the great William Pinkney,
one of Maryland's proudest names, and designed to be the Uni-
versity of the poor as well as the rich, points it out as the spot,
where the great fostering care of all aspirants to true fame, should
be nursed with the tenderest hands. As economy must ever be
consulted by those especially who are Trustees of the money of