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others, your committee advert to the fact, that in connecting such
a school with an institution well supplied with all the appurte-
nances of educational life, there would be saved to the State a vast
outlay of money. Another subject to which the attention of your
committee was called, the propriety of associating a Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction with such a Training School for teach-
ers, needs only to be hinted at; of the necessity of such an officer
to give unity and efficiency to any plan of State education, there
can be no question, and of the highest propriety of connecting
him with its source and centre there can be as little. With an
apology for having unavoidably detained you so long, we respect-
fully submit to you this report, with the accompanying plans for
the foundation of a Normal School, and establishment of the office
of a Superintendent of Public Instruction in Maryland, in connec-
tion with St. John's College.

C. K. NELSON, Chairman.