University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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witli the subjects usually taught in the rural schools. The 1915 summer school will offer three grades of work, viz.. Elementary, Vocational and College Credit courses. The Department of Agricultural Education, in co-operation with the State Board of Education, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has in prepara- tion a series of personal lessons in agriculture, to be issued in nine parts, corre- sponding to the nine months of school. The lessons show how agriculture can be correlated with the teaching of composition, history, physical geography and arithmetic. Our professor of Agricultural Education has been appointed by the State Board of Education, Supervisor of Agricultural Instruction in the high schools of the State. This will co-ordinate the work of the high schools with the work at this institution. The year has been marked by the organization of a College and Exi)eriment Station Extension Service, whose duty will be to take the work of these institu- tions out, and deironstrate them to the i)eople of the State. The activities of the Athletic Dei)artment have been crowned with signal success. This department stands in great need of a building for its full develop- ment, and to enable it to give the i)hysical training that will insure a strong body for the trained mind. The religious life of the College during the twelve months has shown a marked activity. The triumphant canvass of the Y. M. C. A. for membership, which placed this institution at the head of the list in Maryland, should be counted of no less importance than the victories on the Athletic field. This association should be encouraged, and given every opportunity to keep pace with the growth of the College in the future, and thus be made the factor for carrying out the desire of the College as set forth in that part of the preamble of the original charter which states : That in addition to the usual courses of scholastic training, particularly indoctrinate, the youth of Maryland, theoreti cally, and practically, in those arts and sciences which, with good manners and morals, shall enable them to subdue the earth, and elevate their State to the lofty position its advantages of soil, cliniate. etc., and the moral and mental capacities of its citizens entitles it to attain. In August there was held under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. a Country Life Conference for rural ministers. This was attended by 140 ministers, and 50 or 60 laymen. The ministers were the guests of the College for three days. They roomed in the dormitory and ate in the mess hall, which enabled them tn renew the spirit of their college days. Those in attendance manifested much interest and enthusiasm in the conference, and they carried away with them not only the visit of a broader field of work for the rural church, but also a better knowledge of the acti vities of the V. M. C. A., which should be mutually hel])ful for vears to come. 15

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The TasijT ji li m w ]jv Prf.sidicnt Patterson. S the time for publishing the 1915 RKvKiLLr: approaches, it reminds us that another College year is about completed, and that it would be well to make a survey and inventory of the year ' s accomplishments. A very few hopes have been realized ; many ambitious and promising plans have failed so far, to either flower, or fruit, and only a limited number of the many needed changes have been accomplished. The Graduating Class of 1915 and the total enrollment for the year, is the largest in the history of the M. A. C. Unfortunately larger numbers bring a demand for enlarged accommodations, and additional equipment. The funds to supply these have not been available ; consequently, many departments are much crowded. The com])letion of Calvert Hall has in i)art, overcome one of the disasters of the fire. of 1912, and provides a first class dormitory for the accoirmodation of a portion of the students. The new range of ten green houses with laboratories attached has provided for the expansion of the horticultural work, and, at the same time, has relieved the crowded condition of Morrill Science Hall. The work of the College has been organized into five separate divisions, namely: 1, Division of Agronomy and Aniiral Husbandry; 2, Division of Horti- culture; 3, Division of A])i)lied Sciences; 4. Division of Rural Economics and Sociology, and 5, Division of Engineering. While some of these divisions are small, yet they should ultimately bring a development that would raise them to the dignity of schools. This step should also set clearly before the public the scope of the work of M. A. C, and .show that this institution stands for a type of education not given at any other institution in Maryland. Two new four-year courses have been added ; namely, the course in Agricul- tural Education for training agricultural teachers, and a course in Canning, for the purpose of training m.en as experts in the sciences as they apply to that important industry. A short, or one week ' s course in Road Making has been inaugurated by tlie Engineering Division. A summer school for teachers of rural schools was begun this year; it was attended by forty-three students representing sixteen counties in Maryland, and the District of Columbia. In the summier school work, particularly emjihasis was given to the correlation of agriculture, domestic science and ' nature study, 14

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' f l ' ru. ■■■■■I m During this college year the ownership of the college property passed wholly into the hands of the State. This makes the Maryland Agricultural College the only College in Maryland owned by the State, and should make the people of the State feel a particular pride and obligation to see it placed in the front rank of its class. Though the ownership has changed, may those charged with the manage- ment of the institution never forget the scope of the work and ideals outlined by its founders. May the Maryland Agricultural College ever ha ve for its purpose the training of men to live in Maryland a life of usefulness and power, to gain here a liveli- hood sufficient for comifortable and generous living; men with power and grace to add to community life, those elements of intelligence and virtue which give a State stability and worth ; men of large obligations to the world ; men who will assume large duties and carry them to successful conclusion. This means that there must be an M. A. C. stamp as unmistakable as the inscription on the coinage of the Nation. This institution may not equal others in the number of students, or in the value of its equipment, but it need stand second to none in the earnestness, devo- tion, spirit and courage which put into the college work, and into life ' s work after leaving college. Greatness must not be confused with size, or worth with show. The future is in the hands of time ; but that this College may continue to grow and that these ideals may be realized through the development of the present good feeling and spirit of the student body must be the wish of every friend of M. A. C. SUMMARY FOR 1914-1915. STUDENT BODY. Post Graduate 6 Senior 36 Junior 33 Sophomore 42 Freshman 69 Sub-Freshman 58 Second Year Agriculture 8 Second Year Horticulture 3 First Year Horticulture and Agriculture 36 Unclassified 14 Winter Courses (Agri.) 200 Winter Courses (Home Econ.) 82 Winter Courses ( Engineering) 22 609 609 INTRUCTORS. Professor Emeritus 1 Professors 19 Associate Professors 5 Instructors 7 Assistants 1 33 Total 642 16