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

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22 Urrra illlariar. 1 H 1 ll hensive of his Alma Materfs need and ignores it, and any member of the faculties who refrains from advocating ways and means for the institution's progress, are all to be con- sidered most unworthy to share in an honored institutionfs claim on posterity's gratitude. The student should be an active worker for moral uplift, and hit rightlout from the shoulder business in and around his University. The University of Maryland expects this of every man, it is a part of his work. The student body is the root of a University's worth, and its essential attributes are character, labor and unselfishness. The alumnus should never remain indifferent to his Alma's Mater's interests, if his Alma Mater has a grand- mother living he should keep close watch over both, each has a mission to perform, if there is to be rivalry between them, it should be based upon altruistic principles, and not upon puny considerations. The faculties have duties imposed upon them, which are from our viewpoint, gauged by the demands made upon them by the student body. It never was, nor can be a right in any faculty to discourage demands by the student body, if those demands are worth anything at all. They should be alive to the sentiment in the various departments, and render every assistance in their power to propel material advancement among these departments. We believe the various faculties are composed of men famous for their professional skill and ability, and their average member alive to the needs of the University of Maryland. The University of Maryland at the present time, is essen- tially a private institution, having no substantial connection with the State. It is well that it has no such connection. In former years, when it bore relations with the State, no good was derived therefrom. Ambidextrous politicians were then prone to utilize this insti- tution founded upon integrity, for their own selfish means. To them can be attributed the decadence worthy men of the University are now putting forth their best efforts to repair. The soul of the University they could not harm, but the body was nigh wrested from it, and that which remained after these incursions upon substantial appropriations, did not amount sufficiently enough to give those remarkable marble f' columns before the Medical Department a new coat of paint. We believe a new era has begun for this glor- ious institution. Nothing can fall short of a rapid and thorough building process, founded upon integrity, unselfishness and labor, entirely Within the cooperation of the students, Alumnaee and faculties who have not been found wanting in their patriotic devotion to the new work, nor abhorrence of any system begetting selfishness and dishonesty, which en- courages retrogression. ' The University of Maryland and St. J ohn's desire to go hand in hand in the upward march. Their affiliation, it is true, is but an experiment, all great achievements you will remember were nothing more, the Creation of the Earth was an experiment, but it was found good, so survived. The highly distinguished President of St. John's College and the honored members of our own faculties are in accord with every good sentiment ex- pressed by the student body and alumnae to bring about a material and visible change of conditions in both institutions. No well wisher of the University desires to see this affi- liation terminated, an affiliation of the noblest of institutions. What could be more desired than to see them housed under the same buildings, possessing the same campus. What a glorious anticipation! And it is not a mere phantasy, but a huge probability. You men of the University of Maryland are to be held responsible for the success or failure of the consolidation of these institutions. It is upon your individual efforts as students and as alumnuses that the progress ofthe University depends. Are you men of the University of Maryland going to be in on the last lap when your Alma Mater achieves the well fought, well earned, battle for supremacy! If so, then gird yourselves with the armor of invulner- ability and go forth to the conflict and earn her esteem in that great day. Why remain indifferent to your surroundings? You have discussed and argued in groups, or have at

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Efvrra illllariar, 15111 21 that most any fraternity man could look any College President straight in the eye, as one St. John's fraternity man had done to his exoneration, and say, Hector, Hector, son of Priam, Did you ever see a man as drunk as I am? There is one great opportunity the fraternities of this University are missing and that is their failure to exert the power of their influence in the various concerns of the Univer- sity. The men who compose the fraternities are able enough in their influence for good, but there is a deplorable deficiency of initiative among them, whether it is caused by sheer indifference, lack of moral courage or something else is hard to tell, but it certainly does not reflect any honor for patriotism by remaining so indifferent. Whatever is to be done let it be done with a whole-heartedness. There should rest no unseliishness in the student body when a project has been inaugurated for the good of the University, no matter from whatever source that project has emanated. If a suggestion has been advanced for a good movement, there should be no reasonable ground for not backing it up, a refusal to do so merely shows a failure of duty and no unselfish patriot will refuse, any student that re- fuses some aid which can be reasonably rendered ought to be shunned by every student. First and foremost of our advocations should be a strict, absolute and unqualified adher- ence to the moral fabric of the University. Then let the others, such as demands for a Uni- versity Postoffice, be made, and larger libraries also, which are greatly in need. Especi- ally is the Law Department in need of a system for handling the ever increasing amount of mail, and a larger library. The individual, as he conducts himself, makes up the aggre- gate morale, and nothing should be left undone till it has been brought up to a high stand- ard. The students of this University wish to possess a spirit of candor and of fairness of judgment and dealing, and he cannot but perceive that the essential attributes of the University's growth and fame depend to a very great extent on the preservation of the morale as established by the founders. The genius of the Anglo-Saxon race is due to the fact that they never built new institutions on new foundations, when old foundations were to be had. Their faith in the Nazarene taught them this, the founders adhered to it and now we must preserve it and transmit it down to successive classes. It is quite certain that whatever the destiny of the University of Maryland is to be, it can only be attained through the eiorts of the student body in co-operation with the Alumni and Faculties. One or the other cannot do it alone, any attempt to do so would prove futile, but each must contribute their full share of active enthusiasm, and it should not be spasmodic, either. We believe the University already has men imbued with the right spirit which is direct- ing the fulfillment of our desires. Some of the more active workers are the Dean of the Law School, Henry D. Harlan, President Thomas Fell of St. J ohn's College, Judge Henry Stockbridge, Doctor Cordell, Prof. Hemmeter, Prof. Chew, and Prof. Ashby. These good men and others whom we are not acquainted with, and this we regret, should work to- gether for unity and harmony. To these gentlemen we owe our heartiest support. They have given much of their time for the interests of the University of Maryland, and we be- lieve they are disposed to continue doing so. There is nothing limited in their endeavors to make of the University of Maryland an institution of national repute. We therefore believe in them. An active and systematic cooperation with them by the Alumni and student body would inevitably bring about the desired results. It would force the gauge to register each man's devotion to this institution of worth, this institution which has survived the ordeals of men's selfish interests. The student who has sized up the conditions of his institution and remains indifferent, and the alumnus who is appre-

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Errra illlariar, 1 H 111 23 least heard it argued, that something is wrong with the internal works of the University. And it was not all about some darky seeing a light in Gray's Laboratory on a dark night, nor hearing the 15th Amendment being discussed by a group of Democrat law students, but it was something in the nature of how the business side of the University of Maryland is being conducted. And it cannot be denied that an amendment is what ought to be made to the University's charter, if in theory one existed. Why is it, you argue, that it is the only institution in the State which does not issue a Hospital bulletin containing receipts and disbursements, and the number of patients treated per year? This question should be answered by the Faculty of Physics if at all. It is true that the Court of Appeals have held their charter to be irrepealable, so are not held accountable to no one, not even the Board of Regents for their actions. This fact alone does not render them guilty of inaction or of dishonesty, but it does impose upon them and others to render an account of their stewardship. It is said, their policy has been one of wise conservatism, which, of course, is a good thing, but a greater virtue and a wiser policy is a discretionary vigilance, for without it, the former might be considered to have been diverted from a wise University of Maryland conservatism to one not so im- portant or so healthy. While the University was on the State list as a yearly recipient of appropriations, it is quite well known that in those days the same wise conservatism was observed, apparently too well observed for general approbation. The reputed cost of' the Medical Building is said to have been between eighty and one hundred thousand dol- lars, this sum was raised by a State Lottery 'i fCordell's History of the University of Marylandj. It is rather late to answer the question whether this amount of money wont directly for that purpose. One need but tap the eight massive marble columns which upholds the building with the assistance of its three more animate occupants, to form an opinion. Its occupants can be seen at most any time as if guarding those columns, from which one might suspect a treasure trove was beneath or in them, but that is a rebuttable presumption, that would be carelessness in the extreme to have left any treasure there. But let the poor old building rest on its glory, and all that therein is. Vade in pace! and may your successors not share the tribulations you have borne. The history of the University has been a glorious one, beyond the misuse it has re- ceived at the hands of unscrupulous politicians, selfish and unpatriotic men. It has survived all assaults made upon it. It shall go down to future generations unscathed and great in honor and achievement, but it is incumbent upon and necessary for each student, alumnus and member of the faculties to cooperate, to lay open the system of the University's work- ing, in order that the future will be of the brightest. Until that is done, no immediate good can be done, nor will interest be aroused in the great benefactors of educational insti- tutions, unless they know for certain that the University of Maryland is conducted on sate lines of business and is composed of men full of enthusiasm, honesty and integrity. ARTHUR E. NELSON.