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

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UniTersity vouches for University You ' re the third hitch-hiker I ' ve picked up on that comer this week, he said. There must be quite a bunch of kids running bac ' ' ° ' ' ' ■•»• ' to sch ' - - - The boy nodded. I ' ve been reading all about the Univ ' Baltimore papers, continued the d ' They ' ve been giving it quite a play. I can ' T way back when that college was nothing but a couple of buildings set back up on the hill. It certamly has grown. They sure have been blasting at your president lately— Dr. Byrd. I can ' t understand it, after all he ' s done for that school. I guess wrote out Yes sir c What are you studying to be? I ' m taking journalii on the pad. Say, they got courses in that too? ' must really be some school. I hear they ' ve got ledicine and la - ■— ' of business. What a university! When my kid ough to go to college, Maryland ' s tl re for him. I don ' t want him to grow up to ;y kids— he ' s gonna I ' brain. Philosophy, journalism, business, that ' s the stuff. That ' s the meat you can stick your teeth in. That ' s what I like about Maryland, there ' s no fooling around out here. The car stopped for the light in front of the Dairy Building and the boy reached for his books. The driver reached over and shook his hand. Goodbye and good luck, he said. I hope your voice heals up. Thanks, the boy wrote on the pad. But rwithi ■ ' ' ■ idl '

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e •HW - — •• W»«« HARRY CLIFTON BYRD, P«rid I building .t and atiU grawins insUtaUon. en«ineerin« gndiuite er in 1912 to be-