Excerpt from The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. 3: March 15, 1907 This affiliation is perfectly natural and carries out the views and plans Of the early educators of Maryland. As early as 1784, a State University was created by an act of Legislature. This uni versity consisting of Washington College, at Chestertown, and St. John's College was in the above mentioned year incorporated under the title of the University of Maryland, but this charter was rendered non-effective in the year 1806 by the Legislature refusing pecuniary aid to the institutions, and St. John's claims that the title and function of a university were not an nulled and continue to exist. By this union then St. John's merely comes into possession of its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.