Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-24
STATE CHAIRMAN D. A. R.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Scholarship-Mrs George W.Hodges
Of Annapolis Tells Of Work
Being Accomplished.
ST. MARY'S SEMINARY.
At St. Mary's City Md.---The Bill
Introduced.

/ The bill introduced in the Senate
and House of the Maryland Legisla-
ture, 1916. by the Representatives of ST.
Mary's county should claim the atten-
tion of all Maryland people
ST. Mary's Female Seminary. built
"a monument to the birth OF the State
of Maryland" does not enjoy the dig
nifty as the law of Maryland. 1893. sets
| forth. No college or school in the State
| of Maryland had such recognition ac-
! corded by an act of Legislature. Yet ST.
| Mary's Female Seminary today is list
ed only as "a State institution receiy-
ing State aid"
Knowing the dignity accorded ST.
Mary's Seminary by order of birth, and
thinking. by law, it was built on the
rock foundation of a States monument
the Maryland Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution. September IA. 1914
entered in ST. Marys Seminary "the
Francis Scott Key Scholarship" as q
living monument" in memory of the
writer of The Star Spangled Banner. e
Assisted by the Society of the Ark and
the Dove, the Southern Maryland So
Chapter of the Society of 1912 from
Iowa.
Recognizing the real work accom-
plished, the Southern Maryland Society
in September, 1915. came into an agree
ment whereby this scholarship is sup
ported in full by the Maryland u. A. r.
and the Southern Maryland Society un-
til the permanent endowment is suff-
cient to maintain it.
In September, 1915, the State Board
of Education granted a scholarship in
the State Manual School to the Mary
land Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, which was entered through ST
Mary's Seminary and by cooperation
with the Mary Washington Colonial
Chapter, of New York city. is known
as the Mrs. William Woodward. Jr.
Scholarship" We expect to have a
graduate in June, 1916. from Calvert
county. and in September, 1916,a young
girl from Worcester county, begins
training in st. Mary's Seminary for
this scholarship We have in St.
Mary's Seminary a young girl from st.
Mary's county training for Goucher
College. We have list of ten appli-
cants for st. Mary's Seminary. repre-
senting St Mary's. Charles. Calvert,
Anne Arundel and Prince Georges
counties. Prizes were awarded in 1915
for Maryland History by the Colonial
Danes on THE Colonial Danes of
the American Revolutionary Period"
the Johu Paul Jones Association offer
ed prize on "The Life and Service of
John Paul Jones and His Final INTERIM
ent at Annapolis"
The National Society of the Daught-
ers of the American Revolution. seeing
the struggle and the progress made by
the Maryland d. A. f. for education.
have recommended the scholarship as
given by the National Society in Paul
Institute Washington, D. c., to be ac-
corded to Maryland for 1916 THE
Room as set aside by the Legislature
of 1889 for the purpose of collecting
and preserving all books and other
relics connected with and calculated
TO throw light upon the just settlement
and early history of this State" is the
special charge of the Major William
Thomas Chapter. of St Mary's City.
They have already placed the order for
the furniture for this room, and the
Maryland Chapters are sending books.
pictures, etc. 1t is hoped the Legisla-
ture of 1916 will give the Rock Foun-
dation as a monument to the State OF
Maryland to St. Mary's Female Semi
nary in full accordance with the Law
of 1889.