University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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Ever Towards Greatness . . . ALMOST fiom the time men heard of Amer- Vica they were planning its universities. Long before the first permanent settlers ar- rived in Maryland an idealistic English gentleman, Edward Palmer, purchased an island in the Chesapeake in order to estab- lish a university there unfettered by tradi- tion. The colonial legislature of Maryland talked endlessly about the need for a univer- sity, and in 1784 incorporated Washington and St. John ' s Colleges as The University of Maryland, guaranteeing its professors, freedom from taxation and its students free- dom from the draft. So active were Maryland- ers in their talk of higher education that for many years it seemed likely that a national university, endowed by George Washington, would be established close to what is now College Park. Of course, talk outdistanced reality. Rivalry between the Eastern and Western shores, religious revilry and a lack of qualified students caused the first Uni- versity of Maryland to fail; and someone absconded with the money Washington left. Meanwhile in Baltimore the present in- stitution was born in 1807 when an angry mob destroyed the laboratory of Dr. John B. Davidge who was using cadavers to teach his apprentices human anatomy. Physicians of the town persuaded the legislature to provide them protection by chartering a College of Medicine. It was entirely faculty- owned with no administration whatever. Stu- dents paid each professor directly for the right to attend class, and bad professors got no students. When students thought they were ready, after about two years, they took an examination for their M.D. degree. The College of Medicine was so success- ful that in 1812 the legislature changed its name to the University of Maryland and allowed it to offer other degrees in the same way. Without fixed salaries, administration and discipline, the undergraduate college was never very successfrd, but the unusual system of faculty ownership allowed Mary- land to assume a national leadership in the creation of professional schools. It gave birth to the first dental school in the world, one of the country ' s first effective schools of law, and the fourth school of pharmacy. Its medical professors suggested evolution and the germ theory long before Darwin and Pasteur; the once scarce cadavers for dissec- tion became so plentifrd that Frank, the fam- ous janitor, pickled the surplus ones in bar- rels of whiskey to supply the medical col- leges of New England. As professional schools emerged, the aristocratic planters of Maryland sought to secure their own position in society by estab- lishing the Maryland Agricultural College. Far out in the country, far from the corrupt- ing influences of a town, they built a hand- some five-story gothic structure, located on the hill where the main dining hall stands today. Led by the lordly Charles Benedict Calvert, it was an elite institution when it opened in 1859, designed as a college where rich men ' s sons could learn stern discipline, modern science, and the social and cultural values of a gentleman. Unfortunately for the college, the day of the gentleman planter was almost over. Like the state, the institutions in Balti- more and College Park were bitterly torn by the Civil War. From both institutions, about a third of the faculty, students and alumni went South to fight for the Confederacy. Both institutions remained enclaves of Confederate sympathy and perhaps espion- age. When Confederate troops passed through College Park late in the war, the administration entertained them with a grand ball. Both campuses had difficulties adjusting to the post-war industrial era. Although the trustees of the Agricultural College accepted Typical lecture room scene at the old A . school.

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st ' far-svcs-S Table of Contents Introduction 6 Administraton 44 Colleges 58 Student Government 98 Events and Impressions 110 Queens 161 Communications 172 Religion 190 Music and 1 )rama 202 Honoraries 226 Organizations 242 Sports 274 Residence Halls 336 Greeks 372 Seniors 416 hlditor ' s Page 471 Index 472

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-f r ' r :%3Sam . ri - s ' - ' - ' ■ ' •»• .• «J|- « i ■■; - s ' :.;»»£.■■ .:• -- l [Ms nanyland SideCoHeqe of fior ' mtohe This campus aerial view of 53 years ago shows two distinct present day buildings: Annapolis Hall and the Dairy building. fiinds from the land-grant act, they clung defiantly to their old planter values and elected eight Confederate officers in a row to serve as president. All during the 1870 ' s and 1880 ' s about fifty students in modified Confederate uniforms paraded about the little military college on the hill while the politics of Maryland swirled around it. In Baltimore, the very success of Maryland ' s faculty-owned professional schools inspired dozens of competitors. Almost any group of doctors, dentists or lawyers could set them- selves up as a school to offer degrees, each one attracting students with lower tuition and easier standards than their competitors. Then, during the 1890 ' s, the institutions at College Park and Baltimore began to rise again. The small farmers of the state began to assert themselves, gained control of the Agricultural College fiom the broken plant- ers, and transformed its curriculum to empha- size practical subjects like farming and engi- neering. Agricultural research agencies, agricultural control bureaus and farm demon- stration agents spread out over the state, giving the College a bioad popular base. The Wright Brothers arrived in College Park in 1909 to make the little village into the world ' s first air corps boom town. When the main college building burned in 1912, that only stimulated state-wide concern for the in- stitution. The state legislature took control and bore the costs of rebuilding. Football, fraternities, and rah-rah came, giving the college a life of its own. As the rural Populist spirit revitalized the Agricultural College, the urban Pro- gressive spirit revitalized professional ed- ucation. Accrediting agencies appeared and state licensing laws were passed, driving disreputable schools out of business and allowing the University to grow power- ful. In order to provide fiuther aid and ftirther control, the state took over the faculty- owned University in 1920, merging it with the state-owned institution at College Park. During the early 1920 ' s, jazz was hot, and during the early 1930 ' s, depression was bleak. The able president Albert F. Woods took full advantage of the merger, giving new emphasis to standards, to the arts and sciences, and to graduate work. Students, newly affiliated and proud of their institu- tion as never before, set out to enjoy them- selves. Sometimes the jazz got too hot, and after the Washington Post called the Uni-