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

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Law School. HENRY D. HARIyAN, Secretary of Lazv Faculty. Hon. John P. PoE, Pleading, Practice, Evidence and Torts. Richard M. Vknable, Esq., Constitutional Law and General Jurisprudence Thomas W. Hali., Eso., International Law and Admiralty. Hon. Charles E. Phelps, Equity Jurisprudence. Hon. Albert Ritchie, Commercial Law. Edgar H. Gans, Esq., Executors and Administrators and Criminal Law. Hon. Henry D. Harlan, Elementary Common Law and Domestic Relations. William T. BranTly, Esq., Personal Property and Contracts. Thos. S. Baer, Esq., Real Property and Title. Hon. J. Upshur Dennis. Corporations. Edgar Allen Poe, Esq., Bills and Notes. Dental School. Ferdinand J. vS. Gorg. s, A. M., M. D., D. D. vS., Professor of Principles of Dental Science, Dental Surgery and Dental Prosthesis. James H. Harris, M. D., D. D. S., Professor of Operative and Clinical Dentistry. Francis T. Miles, M. D., Professor of Physiology. L. McLane Tiffany, A. M., M. D., Clinical Professor of Oral Surgery. R. DORSEY COALE, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy. Isaac Edmondson Atkinson, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics. Randolph Winslow, A. M., M. D., Professor of Anatomy. John C. Uhler, M. D., D. D. S., Demonstrator of Prosthetic Dentistry. Isaac H. Davis, M. D., D. D. S., Demonstrator of Operative Dentistry. J. Holmes Smith, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. 19

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Introductory Sketch By Major R. M. VENABLE, of the Baltimore Bar. IN the first number of this Annual, Dr. Gorgas gave a sketch of the history of the University of Maryland. It is proposed here to say something of the present history of the University. The plans of the founders of the University were to establish it on a broad basis, and to make it not merely a school for the Arts and Sciences, but also a School for instruction in the professions of Divinit3 lyaw and Medicine. Onl} ' one of these Departments has flourished continuously from the beginning. This is the School of Medicine. It has been one of the most distinguished and successful Medical Schools in the whole country. Its numerous alumni for three-fourths of a century have spread over the whole country, and many of them have taken rank in the front of their profession. The Divinity School practicall) ' never had any success, and could only for a short time be said to have had an existence. It was, as established, probably one of the most unique theological schools ever seen. To prevent any charge of sectarianism, and possibly in order to give instruction in all shades of theological opinion, the faculty was composed of divines representing the several religious sects. One would presume a priori that this would have made the School the centre of endless theological disputes, and a centre from which the odiian theologicum would radiate with a white heat. But tradition tells us nothing of the kind occurred, and that gentleness and peace reigned. There is a s .ory told of two dogs separated by a fence, who were struggling furiously- to get at one another. Some one, to gratify them, opened a gate between them, and the two dogs immediately calmed down and walked away. It may have been the same way with the theologians. When they found themselves confronted in the same faculty, they became more calm. 21