THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDE FOUNDATIONS. 1902 PUBLIO LIBRAR MEMORIAL. TO THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND: The Joint Memorial of the Trustees of the University of Maryland, and the Trustees of Baltimore College. Your Memorialists, reverting to the various legislative acts by which the State of Maryland has manifested her concern to foster the great interests of Education within her limits, approach her legislature with the purpose of drawing its attention once more to this subject, with a confidence inspired by a review of its past measures, and with the expectation that what remains to be done, in order to attain all the objects originally proposed, will be done with cheerfulness and effect. Among the liberal provisions of the state to this end, was the establishment and endowment of the University of Maryland in its principal city.. This measure, and the liberal pecuniary appropriations which followed it from the hands of the State, have resulted in a Medical and a Law school, both in practical operation, and both destined, it is hoped, to fulfil, in the diffusion of their appropriate science, the liberal views of the legislature. Large and commodious edifices have been erected; philosophical apparatus provided; and various other accommodations gradually accumulated, in furtherance of the design of establishing a University, in the true and enlarged sense of that term. As was natural, and as might have been expected from the condition and necessities of the population of a young country, the first success of these efforts has been manifested in the departments of Medicine and |