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MARYLAND. 



miles square, they could afford to pay sufficient 

 salaries to employ good teachers and have com- 

 modious school-houses, and that a smaller num- 

 ber of good schools would do better work than 

 the larger number of ill-equipped and ill-offi- 

 cered schools now existing. The total receipts 

 of the public-school tax for the fiscal year 1882 

 were $479,885.85, which, together with a bal- 

 ance on hand at the beginning of the year of 

 $260,613.24, made a total available sum of 

 $740,499.09. The total disbursements of this 

 fund for the year were $535,855.34, leaving an 

 available balance for school year, commencing 

 October 1, 1882, of $204,643.75. Schools for 

 the colored people are established in each 

 election district, and are kept open as many 

 months in the year as the schools for the 

 whites. The State Normal Schools, one for 

 white and one for colored teachers, are doing 

 a good work. The number of pupils is larger 

 than it was last year. The other means au- 

 thorized by law for the improvement of teach- 

 ers Teachers' Institutes, District, County, and 

 State Teachers' Associations have been fully 

 employed during the year with the promise of 

 the best results to the entire State. Higher edu- 

 cation is provided by the St. John's, the West- 

 ern Maryland, Agricultural, Washington, Fred- 

 erick, and Baltimore Female Colleges, which 

 receive a partial but uncertain support from 

 the State, and consequently are not as flourish- 

 ing as the friends of education would desire. 

 Three years ago the Agricultural College re- 

 ceived $6,000 per annum from the State, in 

 addition to the proceeds of the land scrip ; now 

 it receives no State aid. The effort of its 

 managers now is to make it a purely agricul- 

 tural and mechanical college, but with its pres- 

 ent reduced means its force is materially re- 

 duced. Many of the farmers of the State, who 

 might be supposed to be most interested in 

 its success, opposed the continuance of the 

 legislative appropriation for the college, and 

 have expressed great dissatisfaction with its 

 management. In this state of affairs Profess- 

 or William II. Parker, president of the insti- 

 tution since 1875, tendered his resignation in 

 October, which was accepted by the Board of 

 Trustees. The Maryland Institute for the Pro- 

 motion of the Mechanic Arts is taking the lead 

 in the advancement of a branch of popular 

 education drawing which is much needed 

 and much neglected. The number of students 

 in attendance in the day-school and the night- 

 school is about four hundred. They are in- 

 structed thoroughly in every branch of draw- 

 ing and painting. The McDonough School of 

 Farming and General Education has been emi- 

 nently prosperous during the year. Each year 

 the value of the school seems to be more widely 

 recognized, as shown by the constantly grow- 

 ing pressure for admission. The new building 

 in course of erection last year has been com- 

 pleted and is now occupied. The wing for use 

 as a boarding-house, which forms part of the 

 original plan, has not been commenced for want 



of the necessary means. The trustees have ex- 

 pended nearly $100,000, which has not only 

 exhausted the accretions set aside for the new 

 buildings, but has created a deficiency of $29,- 

 000, caused by the completion of the buildings 

 under contract, and the erection of an additional 

 wing embraced in the original plan. Until this 

 deficiency has been supplied from the surplus 

 income, the board have determined to be con- 

 tent with the present accommodations, which 

 furnish all that is necessary for educational 

 purposes. The board will not, therefore, for 

 the present, adopt the recommendations of 

 Professor William Allen, the principal, as to 

 the enlargement of the number of students, be- 

 lieving that the advantage arising from an in- 

 crease of numbers would not justify an increase 

 of the indebtedness already incurred. The 

 present value of the trust is reported to be 

 $923,375.32, as set forth in the following bal- 

 ance-sheet made up to December 31, 1882: 



THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. Consid- 

 erable dissatisfaction has been expressed as to 

 the manner in which the trustees of the uni- 

 versity have administered the important trust 

 confided to them, especially as to their failure, 

 as was alleged, to locate the institution at Clif- 

 ton, the founder's country residence, in con- 

 formity with Mr. Hopkins's desire. Eight of 

 the trustees, constituting a large majority of 

 the board, have published the following state- 

 ment in explanation of their conduct : 



The Johns Hopkins University was incorporated by 

 certificate, at the request of Johns Hopkins, on Au- 

 gust 24, 1867, under the provisions of the act of 1867, 

 chapter 379. That certificate declared that the uni- 

 versity thus formed should be located in Baltimore 

 County. The trustees of the university named in the 

 certificate were selected by Mr. Hopkins. There was 

 no organization of the board until June 13, 1870. On 

 that day the trustees met at Mr. Hopkins's request, 

 and by'his desire selected Mr. Galloway Cheston, 

 one of their number, as president of the board. 



On July 9, 1870, Mr. Hopkins made his will. 

 Among other dispositions of his property he made 

 the following: "I give and bequeath unto the Johns 

 Hopkins University, a corporation formed at my in- 

 stance under the laws of Maryland, by certificate du- 

 ly recorded among the records of Baltimore County, 

 my country-place, known as 'Clifton,' containing 

 about three hundred and thirty acres, and all the 

 shares of the capital stock of the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Eailroad Company whereof I shall die possessed, 

 except the stock known as preferred stock of said 

 company." He made in his will no other allusion to 

 " Clifton." Those of the undersigned who were fa- 

 miliar with him know that he thought " Clifton " was 

 well adapted for the site of the university, and that he 



