Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-01-31
BILL FOR UNIVERSITY
NOW BEFORE SOLONS
Senator MaIOy Fathers Big
Educational Project.
WOULD MERGE 5 COLLEGES.
ST. Johns Included IN List-PIsn
Has Long Been Under cOnsid-
Grafton.

The plan or combining and co-ordi-
mating the various colleges Of the
State, toge Their with the University
of Maryland. long advocated by DIR.
Thomas Fell, provost of the Universi.
ty OF Maryland, is provided for in a
bill introduced in the General As
sembly by Senator Maloy, Of Balti-
more city. II lie by far the most inn
portant of a series OF measures bea--
ing on public education which were
offered in both houses.
In general way the plan proposed
in Senator Maloy's bill was outlined
in April Of last year by DR.. Fell in
an address at the University Club,
Baltimore, to the graduates OF st.
Johns College. Senator Maloy, long
interested in educational problems,
he'd been thinking along similar lines.
In the meantime DIR. Fell had been
designated by Governor Gol1sborough
to go 10 Wisconsin to study the meth
DDS and plan of operation of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin the Governor
having taken marked interest in
the State university proposition.
The new university is TO be the
Maryland State University, and for
the present il is to include the Uni
versity of Maryland, with its schools.
of medicine, law and dentistry; the
Maryland Agricultural College, Wash.
ington College, at Chestertown; st
Johns College, Western Maryland
College at Westminster, the College
Of Physicians and Surgeons and the
Mar Jland Medical College, of Bslti-
more, and the Blue Ridge College.
The utilization of the Sc institutions
with the Maryland State University
is not to deprive any of them OF its
present corporate rights or fran
chises. nor to vest in the university
the title to any property of the indi
vidual institutions except as shall be
mutually and distinctly agreed to il
writing between the governing bodies
of the institutions and the university
The bill creating the new universi
ty names the following as incorpora
tors: Governor Goldsborough, Comp
troler Emerson c. Harrington, Nj
Bates Stephens, State Superinten
dent If Education; Jesse A. Price
Peter J. Campbell, William W. Beck
Edward M. Hammond, Arthur Z
German, J. Frank Harper, Carvillc
ID. Benson, James Nee. Trippe, Lloyd
Wilkinson, Andrew j. Cumming
Roscoe Jones, James A. McQuadt
James A. Dawkins, David j. Mcln
tosh, Jr., Noble J. Mitchell, Thomt
Fell, Robert Moss, James w. Cait
James Alfred Pesrce, Thomas I
Lewis, Joshua w. Miles, James Earle
Maloy, Randolph Winslow, Thomt
A. Ashby, Henry Stockbridge, Tin
othy o. Hestwole, Philemon II. Tuck
Charles Caspari, Jr. Joseph II. Bra
ham, Frederick Crowthers, William
F. Lockwood, John W. Chambers. II
j. Patterson, Robert Grain, j. Wal.
ter Engler. E. c. Bixler and Villa
Miles Maloy.
A board of regent is to be the gov
erning body Of the university. This
| is to be composed of the Governor
Comptroller, State Treasurer, State
Superintendent of Education, six pei
sons to be appointed by the Gosernos
-one from each Congressional eds
| trict-and two from each of the 81
| filiated institute INA, to be named s
| the institutions. For the first yea
ST John will be represented by Dr.
Fell and Mr.. Robert Moss, president
| OF the Board of Governors.