University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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A lot on the northeast corner of Lombard and (ireene streets was purchased from Colonel John Eager Howard, and the erection of the present University Building was begun in May, 1812, and the ensuing session was held in the partially completed structure. It was built in imitation of the Pantheon at Rome, and at the period of its comple- tion was the finest structure devoted to medical teaching in this country. Its Anatomical Theatre and Chemical Hall were described in the papers of that date as being as extensive and appropriate as those of any of the European schools. On the completion of this building the idea was first conceived of founding a University upon the Medical School, and on December 29, 18 12, the Legislature of Maryland passed an Act authorizing the College of Medicine of Mary- land to constitute, appoint and annex to itself the other three Colleges of Faculties, viz : ' ' The Faculty of Divinity, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences, and that the four Faculties or Colleges thus united, shall be, and they are hereby constituted an University, by the name and under the title of the University of Maryland. The first Faculty of Divinity consisted of Rt. Rev. James Kemp, D.D. ; Rev. James Inglis, D.D. ; Rev. J. Daniel Kurtz; Rev. George Roberts, and the Rev. John Glendy, The Rev. Dr. William E. Wyatt was appointed in 1819, and the last survivor of this Faculty was the Rev. J. G. Hamner, D.D. In 1878 this Theo- logical Department ceased to exist. The Department of Law was organized in 1823, and its first Faculty consisted of Messrs. David Hoff man, Robert Goodloe Harper, John Purviance, Robert Smith, Nicholas Price, and Nathaniel Williams. This Law Department is in active operation, and among its Alumni and present Faculty are to be found the names of many of the most prominent jurists in the State of Maryland. The first Faculty of Arts consisted of such eminent scholars as Charles W. Hanson, Rev. John Allen, John E. Hall, Rev. Archibald Walker, John D. Craig, Samuel Brown, and Henry Wilkins, M.D. With the death of Rev. Edwin A. Dalrymple, about the year 1865, the Department of Arts and .Sciences became extinct. The first Provost of the University was the Hon. Robert Smith, who had occupied the position of Secretary of State of the United States. Professor Richard Wilmot Hall was the first Secretary of the Board of Regents. The present Secretary of this Board is the 24

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Hon. John P. Poe, Ex-Attorney General of Maryland. The position of Provost was tilled by that eminent scholar and jurist, the Hon. Severn Teackle Wallis, from 1S70 until his death in 1894. The second Provost of the University of Maryland, the Right Rev. James Kemp, D.D., conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. upon Lafayette in the University Building, October 9, 1824, during the last visit of that illustrious Frenchman to the United States. The diploma was enclosed in a handsome silver box, and was the first instance of the conferring of this degree. The present Provost, Bernard Carter, Esq., is one of the most eminent members of the Baltimore legal profession. In 1820 the Museum of t ' le Medical Department of the University, in Practice Hall, a large building adjoining the University Building, received through Dr. Granville Sharp Pattison, of Scotland, who occupied the Chair of Surgery in the University Medical Department, the anatomical collection of the celebrated Scotch Anatomist, Allen Burns, which in variety, excellence and number was superior to any other in this country. Dr. Pattison resigned in 1827, and was succeeded by the celebrated surgeon. Professor Nathan R. Smith, M.D., who occupied the Chair of Surgery from 1827 to 1869, and was Emeritus Professor of Surgery from that time until his death in 1877. The University Hospital, first known as the Baltimore Infirmary, was erected in 1823, on the southwest corner of Lombard and Greene streets, to which extensive additions were subsequently made. In 1896 it was determined to remove the main Hospital building and erect a much larger one on the same site. This new building is at the present time far advanced, and will be completed during the present year, when the University of Maryland will possess a hospital, which in accomodations, equipment and appearance, will compare favorably with any other in this country. In 1837 the first dental lectures in America were delivered in the University of Maryland by Dr. Horace H. Hayden, one of the earliest practitioners of Dentistry in Baltimore. Following the example of Harvard, Penns l ' ania, and other Universities, in 18S2, by an Act of the Legislature of Maryland, a new department was established under the title of The University of Maryland Dental Department. The first Faculty of Dentistry consisted of Ferdinand J. .S. Gorgas, A.M., M.D., D.D.S , Professor of the Principles of Dental .Science, Dental Surgery and Dental