Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
Maryland U. Freshmen
Likely 10 0utnumber.
Entire School Of 1899

The University Of Maryland ex-
poets to enroll more new students
this month for the term beginning
September rs. than the total en-
rollment at College Park 10 years
ago.
In 1889, the university contained
1869 students. Last year 1t had
1855 and this fall it expects some
1000 new students to be enrolled
between September 10 and %.
Under the guidance of President
Harry c. Byrd. target for frequent
criticism at the 1949 session Of the
General Assembly. the university
continues to expand its physical
facilities with amazing rapidity.
Campus construction seems almost
continuous with dormitories being
added constantly to house the
steadily growing student body and
other buildings for new courses
and new departments.
One of the more impressive of
these is the huge Glenn L. Martin
College of Engineering and Aero
nautical Sciences. whose proper
tons cause eyes to pop as visitors
enter the grounds at the northern
edge Of the big campus.
More Buildings Planned.
Still under design for construc-
ton in the vicinity Of the engi-
neering college is a new chemistry
building which will cost about
$1,700,000. Two women's dormi-
tories are having additional wings
attached and top floors are being
completed, at a cost of $3.50, 900.
Architects are drafting plans for a
women's field place, which will
feature a swimming pool, to be
built at a cost of about 5000, 900.
The University of Maryland now
has 10 separate schools operating
at College Park. and five in Balti-
more. The newest is the College
OF Air Science and Tactics, which
will be directed by an Air Force
officer. The university has dis
continued the College of Military
Science, Physical Education and
Recreation. establishing in it's
place the College of Physical Edu-
cation. Recreation and Health.
Conducts Glasses in Europe.
The universitys scope is not
limited to College Park and Bal
timore. however. Far from it. The
College of Education maintains
classes in Paris. France, and
Zurich. Switzerland. The College
OF Special and Continuation
Studies has classes in the Penta-
gon. at Snow Hill, Salisbury,
Cambridge, the Patuxent Naval
Air Station, Aberdeen, Annapolis,
Boiling Air Force Base. the David
Taylor Model Basin at Fort |
George G. Meade, in the Nays
Bureau of Ships and many other
places.
DR.. Leon Perdue Smith, for
merly with the University of |
Georgia, is assuming new duties
as dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences. He relieves DR.. j. Free
man Pyle, who will now devote
full time to duties as dean of the
College of Business and Public
Administration.
DR.. John Alexander Morrison,
authority on Russian affairs, has
been appointed head of the uni
versity's department of human
and natural resources and chair
man of the division of the world
economics and politics in the Col
lege of Business and Public Ad-
ministration.
Other new faculty appointees
include DR.. Alexander Weinstein,
consultant at the White Oak
Naval Ordnance Laboratory. for
mathematics instruction; DR.. |
Thomas G: Andrews. former |
teacher at Columbia, the Univer-
sity of Chicago and the Univer-
sity Of Nebraska, to be head of
the psychology department; DR..
Charles A. Baylis, for 81 years a
member of the Brown University
faculty, to be head of the philos-
ophy department, and DR.. Lester
M. Fraley, formerly dean of lib
eral arts at Champlain College,
N. Y. to be dean of the College
of Physical Education. He Sue
ceeds Col. Harlan C. Griswold,
who will remain in charge of mil
itary instruction.