University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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This yearbook is dedicated to those faculty members below who through their enthusiasm for teaching and their sincere interest in us were given teaching awards by our class. They include: Frances P. Schulter, Ph.D. , Marshall L. Rennels, Ph.D. , Marvin P. Rozear, M.D. , Rosslyn W. I. Kessel, Ph.D., William Holden, M.D., Theodore E. Woodward, M.D., John N. Diaconis, M.D. , and Ellen R. Wald, M.D. We would also like to express our appreciation to those whose names are not mentioned , but who also gave much of themselves to further our education. Class of 1976 6

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annecdotes and flashes of rhetoric by heart, nevertheless, according to a student of that time, poetic flourishes could sometimes be rewarded. Professor Wm. T. Howard had one about feeling the pulse of the morning dew that students greeted with wild applause no matter how often they heard it. Reform came with the formation of the American Medical Colleges Association which set standard for admission and expanded courses to three years, specifying a different cur- riculum each year. By 1903, with steadily rising require- ments, the Association was able to send out inspectors to guarantee cooperation of the member schools. The Univer- sity managed to keep ahead of the requirements, but was unprepared for the Flexner Report of 1910 which recom- mended the abolishment of all proprietary schools. Abraham Flexner, a Johns Hopkins professor, particularly opposed the profit system in medical education and Maryland, as the founder and most successful exponent of such institutions, seems to have been a special target. He recommended that it be closed unless its professors could be placed on a full-time salary basis. The faculty had stopped selling lecture tickets to the students in 1905, but collected all the fees into a cen- tral fund from which they drew their salaries. According to Flexner , this was still proprietary education , devious at that . The faculty finally turned to the Maryland General Assembly for funding, threatening to close the school if they didn ' t get it. The legislators came forth with just enough funding over the years to keep the school accredited and just short of bankruptcy. This effectively did away with any chance of profits and proprietary education slowly faded away. In 1913, the AMA, whose Council on Medical Education had taken over the authority of the American Medical Col- leges Association, informed the Baltimore Medical College and the University of Maryland that they would have to merge or both be shut down. In 1915 the same merger was ordered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. By the first merger, the University acquired Maryland General for clinical teaching; by the second merger, Mercy Hospital came under its teaching program. Maryland was again the only medical college in the state, except for the Hopkins. Carried along with the rise of standard at the University - including an entrance exam in 1891, a fourth year of courses in 1895 , and an admission requirement of a high school dip- loma in 1905 - the students launched their own reform of sorts. In the 1890 ' s they started wearing coats and ties to class. Eighteen hundred and ninty-five saw the formation of a combined Medical-Dental football team complete with cheers: Rif! Raf! Ruf! Rif! Raf! Ruf! University of Maryland Is pretty hot stuff ! In an outbreak of school spirit, various clubs sprang up. Two of the most notorious of these were the Gourmandizers, with the motto, two beers and a gorge , and the 700 Club, devoted to pursuing all forms of sin. The University Centennial celebration of 1907 saw the Bal- timore schools merged with St. John ' s College in an attempt to graft a school of arts and sciences on the University trunk. Despite high expectation, this was an ill-fated union which soon dissolved. Further attempts at merger with an under- graduate school were postponed until after World War I, when pressure from the AMA, now determined to kill off proprie- tary education for good, and the increasing burden of debts forced the Baltimore schools to look for a new partner. After rejection by St. John ' s and Western Maryland, they found that partner in College Park at the Maryland State College. That merger in 1920 laid the foundation for the present Uni- versity of Maryland. It had been 113 years since Davidge began the Medical College of Maryland and in that time the Old School had graduated thousands of physicians to serve the state. A new era of modern professional education had begun . Su Willard Sources: 1. Callcott, G.H., A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY- LAND 2. Ballard, M. B. , A UNIVERSITY IS BORN 3. WHEN HOPKINS CAME TO BALTIMORE. 5

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