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

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The Law School, since its revival about 1870, has continuouslj increased in the number of its students and of its faculty, and has constantly enlarged the scope of its instruction. The Dental School has also been an uninterrupted success since its establishment. The School of Arts and Sciences had a checkered career until its final disappearance some twenty years ago. Thus it is that the University is now a purely professional school, with its three departments : Medicine, Law and Dentistry. The last ten years show a very marked advance in all of these departments. The course of study in the Medical and Law Schools has been increased to three years, the examinations have become more severe and the standard of attainment has been raised. There has also been a great addition to the subjects studied. The locating of the buildings of the LTniversity in the imme- diate vicinity of one another, thus enabling the students of different departments to become acquainted, and the participation of the students in inter-collegiate and other athletic contests, have done much to stimulate University feeling and the interest of all the students in the School as a whole. Discipline may be said not to exist in the University, and no one wants it to exist. The students reside in a large city under the law and do not need special rules for the regulation of their conduct any more than any other reputable citizen in the commun- ity in which they reside. It is assumed that when men have completed their academic education, have selected their life work and have entered on a course of study to fit them for it, they will act as serious men entering on a serious undertaking. There has been nothing in the history of the University to show that this is a mistaken assumption. No feeling or collision has developed between the members of the several Schools or between members of the different classes in the same schools. The attitude of the professors to the students and the students to the professors and of the students to one another is that of gentlemen in the world to one another. Their association is the association of equals. 22