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

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i •,-J4r tf hak, Jj, Dr. CKarles C. Plitt IN dedicating this Terra Mariai-; to Dr. Plitt, the student body of the University of Maryland has employed its most effecti e medium for the purpose of honoring this member of the faculty of the School of Pharmacy. To those of us who know him best, Dr. Plitt has always been a conscientious co-worker in the student body, the x ' ery personi- fication of modesty and sincerity, and a sympathetic ever-helpful friend. Dr. Charles C. Plitt was born in Baltimore, May 6, 1869, and was gradu- ated Cum Honore from the Baltimore C ity College. His interest and fancy turned early to the botanical sciences. In 1891 he received the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy (Ph.G.) from the Maryland College of Pharmacy, and was also the recipient of the highest honors conferred upon a student — the Simon Medal and the Medal for General Excellence. Dr. Plitt early in his career undertook teaching in the public schools of Baltimore, and later taught at the Baltimore City College. At present he fills the chair of Professor of Botany and Materia Medica in the School of Pharmacy of the University of Maryland, having risen to that position from Associate Professor of X ' egetable Histology (1907). Dr. Plitt is internationally known for his work on Lichens, although other groups of plants such as the Ferns, the Ilepatics, the Mosses, and the Fungi have received his attention. In recognition of Dr. Plitt ' s research work in Botany, the Maryland Academy of Sciences bestowed upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (1921). He is a member of various scientific organizations; chairman of the Botanical Section, Maryland Academy of Sciences; a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected Fellow in 1923) ; a member of the Botanical Society of America, the Fern Societ -, the Ecological Society of America, and the Sulli -ant Moss Society; and he is interested in the seminars in Botany and Biology of the Johns Hopkins Unixersity. -rrr- mw 1 i I 4 i- .r .« |- .U

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lip! f Historical Sketck of tlie University of Maryland HE history of the present University of Maryland practically combines the histories of the two institutions. It begins with the chartering of the College of Medicine of Maryland in Baltimore in 1807, which graduated its first class in 1810. It may be interesting to dwell for a moment upon the founding of the Medi- cal School, which in point of time was really the founding of the University. John Beale Da idge, the founder of this school, was a native of Annapolis, where he was born in 1768. He began the study of medicine with Drs. James and William Murray, of Annapolis, continued it for short time at Philadelphia and then spent se eral years at Edinburgh, where he devoted himself to the study of anatomy. In 1802 he began to give private course of lectures to medical students and these courses were continued annually until 1807, when, being joined by Drs. Cocke and Shaw, his school became the College of Medicine of Maryland. From 1807 to 1812 he lectured on Surgery; from 1813 to his death, in 1829, he held the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery. In person Professor Davidge is represented to have been short and stout with blue e ' es, a florid complexion and homely, rugged features. Notwith- standing a certain irritability of temper, he was much beloved by his acquain- tances and re erenced by his students, who spoke of him as the Father of the University. In the year 1812 the institution, which had now been established, was empowered to annex other departments and was by the same act constituted a University by the name and under the title of the University of Maryland. As such its Law and Medical schools have since been especially prominent in the South and widely known throughout the country. The Medical School building in Baltimore, erected in 1814-15 is the oldest structure in America devoted to medical teaching. For more than a century the University of Maryland stood almost as organized in 1812, until an act of the legislature in 1920 merged it with the Maryland State College, and changed the name of the Maryland State College to the Universitv of Marvland.