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“BY BERNARD C
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COLONIAL ATTEMPTS TO FOUND A COLLEGE
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Over forty such charters have been given by the legislature and, in many cases,
the result has proved that the gift of a charter was not warranted by the stability of the institution,
to which was thus granted the power of conferring degrees
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“Collegiate education in Maryland did not begin until after the Revolution
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For
this state of things there were several causes
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Of the wealthier
classes, some were like the fox-hunting English gentry, caring for little else than sport; and others,
who did desire the advantages of a culture higher than that obtainable from a village schoolmaster
or a private tutor, found it elsewhere
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“But, though no college was established in colonial times, there was no lack of plans and attempts
for one
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" The Lower House amended and
passed the bill; but the plan seems never to have progressed further
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“A second collegiate plan was brought before the legislature in 1732; but, having passed the Upper
House, was seemingly not acted on by the Lower
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" The governor of the colony was to be its chancellor and provision was made
for a faculty of five, under whom students were to be instructed in everything from their alphabet
upwards
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The college was to be placed at Annapolis, to occupy
Governor Blades mansion, and to have a faculty of seven masters, who were to be provided with five
servants
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In
1773 we find William Eddie, Surveyor of Customs at Annapolis, writing that the Legislature of the
Province had determined to fit up Governor Blaine’s mansion and "to endow and form a college for
the education of youth in every liberal and useful branch of science," which college, "conducted
under excellent regulations, will shortly preclude the necessity of crossing the Atlantic for the

“THE FIRST UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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Dr
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To add to his income, he conceived the idea "of opening
a school for instruction in higher branches of education
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To it
the name of Washington was given, "in honourable and perpetual memory of His Excellency,
General George Washington
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Smith was so earnest and zealous in the presentation of the claims
of the college, that in five years he had raised $14,000 from the people of the Eastern Shore
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In 1783 the first class graduated and the first degrees ever
granted in Maryland were conferred, at the same time the corner-stone of the college building was
laid, and in 1784 General Washington himself visited the college
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Smith prepared a three years' curriculum for the institution, equal to that of any college of the
day and similar to the one used at the University of Pennsylvania
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In
the early days of the State, the sections were nearly equal in importance and the prevailing dualism
of the political system invaded the field of education
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John's College was chartered
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By the same act, the two colleges were united in the
University of Maryland
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" The
convocation was to be composed of seven members of the Board of Visitors and Governors and two
of the faculty of each college; it was to establish ordinances for the government of the colleges, to
cause a uniformity in the "manners and literature," to receive appeals from the students, and to
confer "the higher degrees and honours of the University
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So thoroughly was
the project forgotten, that the Legislature of 1805, in withdrawing the State appropriations from the
two colleges, did not even mention the University, and in 1812, though the old charter had never
been repealed, there was no hesitation in bestowing the name of University of Maryland on a
second institution
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The
elder, Washington College, lost Dr
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He was succeeded by Rev
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Under him the college continued to flourish, until the withdrawal
of the State's appropriation in 1805
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“By the act of 1805, the activity of the college was paralysed and its usefulness much impaired
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Since that time the State has
renewed its grants to the college and has greatly aided it in performing its functions; but from the
disastrous effects of the act of 1805, the institution has never fully recovered
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In the latter year, however, the college was re-opened, since the legislature had
granted it a lottery of $30,000
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Dr
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On January 11, 1827, the college building was discovered to be on fire, and,
in spite of the most zealous efforts, was entirely consumed
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The classes were conducted in a building intended originally for a rectory, until that was
destroyed by fire in 1839, when the school was again moved
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Ringgold, the principal of the school from 1832 to 1854, seems to have been a man of
ability, and under him the number of students so much increased that in 1843 it was resolved to
rebuild the college on the old site and to revive the college course
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In 1849, a class of four was graduated,
and in 1854, two additional buildings were erected; one for the Principal's residence and the other
for dormitories and recitation rooms
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Dr
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Andrew J
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After the
Rebellion, an unfortunate selection of teachers and laxness of discipline caused the college to lose
still more ground, and Wm
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Rivers, Principal from 1873 to 1887, had much to do to build it up
again
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The present head, C
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Reid, Ph
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, is still further
advancing the cause of the institution and a new career of prosperity seems opening before
Maryland's oldest college and the only one on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay
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John's College, like its sister institution, founded on a non-denominational basis, started out
under even fairer auspices
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The Blades mansion, now known as
McDowell Hall, was repaired and enlarged and, on August 11, 1789, Bishop Carroll was elected
president of the Board of Visitors and Governors and Dr
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After unsuccessful attempts to obtain a principal from England, Dr
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He was” “a man of great learning and was very successful at St
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Under him, St
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“The same disaster fell on St
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The Legislature withdrew the annual
grant given by the State
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Of late years Maryland has been quite generous to St
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“In the first despair over the Act of the Legislature, the Visitors and Governors voted to discontinue
the college, but their courage soon returned and the Rev
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After his withdrawal in 1812, matters were in a disturbed state for
some years and no classes were graduated until 1822, when Rev
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Davis, the father of
Maryland's famous orator, Henry Winter Davis, was principal
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William Rafferty was head of the college
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” “With
1831, however, began a third and more successful period in the history of St
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In that year the
Rev
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He was a native of
Connecticut and a graduate of Yale College in 1818, and was called to St
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The effect of
his energy and devotion was soon recognised, and, largely through his efforts, was passed the
compromise of 1832
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His energy was very great, his
learning wide and accurate
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During his administration, the
professors' houses were also built, as was Pinkeye Hall, a third building for the use of the college
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Humphreys also secured cabinets and philosophical apparatus for the college and gave
instruction[…]”
“ Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Logic
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Humphreys' death the War of the Rebellion broke out, and St
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The buildings were used
as an hospital, and not until 1866 was the college again reopened with the well-known educator,
Henry Barnard, at its head
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James C
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Since the beginning of the administration of the
next principal, James M
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D
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Dr
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The Rev
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D
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After he resigned Prof
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H
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John's celebrated its centennial in 1889, and has begun its second century with excellent
prospects
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D
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John's is fulfilling the purpose of its founders "to train up and
perpetuate a succession of able and honest men, for discharging the various offices and duties of
life, both civil and religious, with usefulness and reputation

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