Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-02
COL. JOHN PITCHER
IN ACTIVE SERVICE
Retired Army Officer VIII Com
mand Reserve Officers Corps
AT Maryland State College.
A SOUTH RIVER FARMER
College Opens With Largest Enrolment
In History Japan and China
Represented By Students.

who for some years has made his
home in Anne Arundel County. own
ing a beautiful estate on South River,
near Edgewater, has been appointed
commandment of the newly organized
Maryland State College unit of the
Naval Reserve Officers Training
Corps
This announcement was made yes
terday by DR.. T. II. Spence. vice presi-
dent of the college. Col. Pitcher is a
graduate of West Point, and has been
managing large farm in this county
for number of years His brother,
Col William Pitcher, the famous
''s10-Ten-Da -Meester-P Pitcher" who
cleaned up Havana, resides on the
farm with his brother, owning a
handsome bungalow. About two years
ago, when Col. Johns handsome
house was burned down, the family
went to reside with the brother, Col
BILL The two Colonel brothers are
very popular in Annapolis and Naval
Academy society.
The appointment of Col. John Pit
cher as commandant at the State Col
lege Reserve officers Training Corps,
meets with popular approval. No man
could be better fitted for the place.
The students in this corps Gall stu
dents being required to john will wear
the regulation uniform, will have
regular periods for lectures upon
military science and tactics. and their
discipline and system of management
will conform as closely as possible
to that in the army. In the future
the members of the graduating classes
will be granted commissions without
examination upon certification by the
college of their having completed the
courses.
DR.. A. S. Woods, the new dean of
the college, will deliver an address be-
fore the student body at the first col
lege assembly.
Lectures Hour In Length.
Maryland State has broken away
this year from the traditions of the
past and will have the lecture and
other periods an hour long, instead
of As minutes, as heretofore. 1t is
claimed the new method will aid
greatly in promoting the efficiency of
the various college classes.
The college opens this year with
| the largest enrolment in its history.
The dormitories are filled to over
flowing and the late Corners are be-
ing quartered in some of the other
buildings around the campus. There
are students from many States, the
| colonial possessions of the United
| States and many foreign countries,
| including Japan and China. Two no
ticeable students this year are Masao
! Yoshikawa, a graduate of the Hagi-
shawn Imperial College, Japan, who
is taking a postgraduate course in
horticulture, and c. C. Chen, of China,
tural education.
Old Students Back Tomorrow.
The old students will report for
work Wednesday afternoon. The new
students reported Saturday.
| The new Agricultural Building is
rapidly nearing completion. 1t is
now under roof and it is expected to
be ready for occupancy within a
month In addition to the lecture
rooms, laboratories and executive
| offices, there is a hippodrome for cat
tie judging, a machinery hall and a
model dairy. In back of and connect
ing with the main building is an an
mex, an auditorium seating 500 per-
sons. The building work is being
done by a graduate of the college,
class of 1916.
The proctorss upper classmen who
have charge of maintaining discipline
and are responsible for minor student
activities, named fer the coming year,
are: NJ A. Pyle, of Baltimore Coun-
ty. chief proctor, and w. H. Carroll,
Baltimore County, F. ID. Day, Mont
gomery County,; P v. Horn, Freder-
lex County, and G. w. Norris. Balti-
more County. assistants.