diately afterward, was a promising augury of success to the new administration, and one that has since been abundantly verified. An important addition was made to the curriculum of the City College in November, 1890. This was the organization of a department of history and political economy. History now occupies a portion of the time of every class in the school during the first four years, political economy being introduced in the fifth year. This last step brings the development of the curriculum down to date. On the 4th of August, 1892, the college building was undermined and partially thrown to the ground by the excavations for the belt-line tunnel under the bed of Howard street. The following school year was spent in the building on Green and Fayette streets known as male grammar school No. 1. Another removal followed in the fall of 1893. At the present writing the college is in temporary quarters in the building on Dolphin street and Pennsylvania avenue intended for the occupancy of English-German school No. 1. Notwithstanding the inconvenience and hardship involved in these changes, the institution was never more popular thau at present, the number of students having steadily increased during several years past. Almost the last occasion of public interest celebrated in the building on Howard street was a tribute of respect to the memory of the late principal, Prof. William Elliott, jr. The alumni association of the college presented to the institution a portrait of the man whom all of their number had known so well. The presentation was made on behalf of the alumni by Mr. William H. Shryock, and the picture was received by Mr. John T. Morris, president of the school board, who delivered it into the custody of Prof. Soper, representing the faculty of the City College. The orator of the occasion, Rev. W. Raymond Stricklen, a graduate of the city college, spoke in noble terms of the worth of the man whose memory so many had assembled to honor. In this connection it is well to recall that the alumni of the college, many years before (1875), had placed upon its walls a portrait of Dr. Baird, the predecessor of Prof. Elliott. These things deserve more than a passing notice. When the graduates of an educational institution come back after the lapse of many years to honor the instructors of their youth, and provide for the perpetuation of their memory, it is an indication that they have received from that institution something better than mere intellectual culture; it is a proof that for them the higher aims of education have been to some degree at least realized; it is a public confession that their hearts were touched, their charac ters molded, and themselves prepared for the work of life during those early days of study and discipline. No account of the Baltimore City College would be complete without the mention of the societies to which it has given birth. These are the Alumni Association, the Bancroft Literary Society, the Carroll ton Literary Society, the Agassiz Society, and the Bancroft and Carrollton Reunion Society. The first and the last of these associations are made up of those who have graduated from the institution; the other three are student associations, whose activity is a credit to the institution and of great practical value to its members. The primary object of this sketch is to show the educational phases through which the city college has passed. For the sake of brevity personal references to the many able teachers, other than the principals, who, in conjunction with these and through the cooperation and support of the school board, have made the Baltimore City College what it is to-day, could not be introduced in this paper. Candidates for admission to the city college are examined in Quackenbos' entire arithmetic; Ray's algebra, through quadratics; Davies' elementary geometry, 4 books; English grammar; geography; Bert's First Steps in Physics; Martin's Human Body; composition and letterwriting; music, sight reading and singing drawing, Smith's Series No. 8. The schedule of studies and recitations for the current year is as follows: The first-year classes, of which there are five, have algebra, 2 hours weekly; geometry, 2 hours; physics, 2 hours; English composition, 2 hours; English literature, 2 hours; drawing, 2 hours; Latin, 5 hours; bookkeeping, 2 hours; penmanship, 1 hour; English history, 2 hours; United States history, 1 hour; preparation, 2 hours-25 hours. The second-year classes, of which there are three, have geometry, 4 hours; German, 3 hours; physics, 2 hours; English literature, 2 hours; English composition, 1 hour; drawing, 2 hours; Latin, 4 hours; bookkeeping, 3 hours; Roman history, 2 hours; preparation, 2 hours-25 hours. The third-year classes, of which there are three, have trigonometry, 4 hours; review of mathematics, 4 hours (optional); German, 2 hours; French, 3 hours; chemistry, 3 hours; rhetoric, 3 hours; drawing, 1 hour; Latin, 4 hours; Greek, 4 hours (optional); Grecian history, 1 hour. The classes that take Greek (optional) omit the review of mathematics, and conversely-25 hours. The fourth-year classes, of which there are two, have analytical geometry, 3 hours; surveying and navigation (optional), 4 hours; astronomy, 1 hour; German, 2 hours; French, 2 hours; chemistry, 3 hours; English, 3 hours; drawing, 1 hour; Latin, 4 hours; Greek (optional), 4 hours; ancient history, 1 hour; preparation, 1 hour. Those who take Greek (optional) omit surveying and navigation, and conversely25 hours. The fifth-year class has calculus, 4 hours; astronomy, 1 hour; German, 2 hours; French, 2 hours; chemistry, 3 hours; English, 3 hours; drawing, 1 hour; Latin, 4 hours (no Greek section this year); mental philosophy, 2 hours; political economy, 2 hours; preparation, 1 hour-25 hours. FACULTY OF BALTIMORE CITY COLLEGE. FRANCIS A. SOPER, A. M., Principal, professor of higher mathematics. A. L. MILLES, B. A., professor of the French language and adjunct professor of Latin. CHARLES C. WIGHT, professor of history and English literature. A. Z. HARTMAN, A. M., professor of Latin and Greek. J. N. HANK, A. M., professor of Latin and Greek. JOSEPH H. ELLIOTT, Secretary of Faculty, professor of bookkeeping and penmanship. S. F. NORRIS, professor of astronomy and mathematics. ROBERT C. COLE, A. M., professor of history and political economy. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, professor of English and mathematics. G. EMORY MORGAN, A. M., professor of English literature and Latin. PHILIP H. FRIESE, adjunct professor of natural sciences and English. CHAPTER VIII. COLLEGES NO LONGER EXISTING. COKESBURY COLLEGE (1784-1796). The stroller, wandering through the streets of an old city, will come at times upon old and forgotten graveyards. Hidden away from the tread of the multitude and rarely seen by anyone, these graveyards have a pathetic interest and bring up visions of the past to the mind of the thoughtful. The headstones, moss-covered and with the inscriptions half obliterated by time and weather, often give glimpses into the long distant past and tell a story of unfulfilled expectations and vanished hopes. So the investigator, searching old records, comes across dead institutions, long since buried and laid away, whose very names are scarcely known to the men of the present day. In the educational history of this State we find many such extinct institutions of learning, which failed because of adverse circumstances. Of the seventeen institutions for higher education, which were chartered and are no longer in existence, the oldest is the most interesting. Cokesbury College was a pioneer attempt of a great religious denomination in the higher education and, as such, is worthy of attention. Maryland is the cradle of Methodism in America, and so it was eminently fitting that the first Methodist college in the world, and indeed, the second one also, should be planted in the soil of this State. For a long time Methodism in America had no definite organization, till, on the petition of the American churches, John Wesley consecrated Rev. Thomas Coke, doctor of civil law, superintendent for the United States. Dr. Coke sailed from England at once, and on November 3, 1784, arrived at New York. On the 15th of the same month he met Francis Asbury, "the pioneer bishop," at Barrett's Chapel, Dover, Del.' At this first meeting Coke spoke to Asbury concerning the founding of an institution for higher education under the control of their church. This was not wholly a new idea, for four years before John Dickins had suggested the same thing to Asbury.2 Asbury then "contemplated a school or schools, on the plan of Kingswood, near Bristol in England, and in North Carolina, three years before, had opened a subscription, drawn up at his instance by Rev. John Dickins."3 'Stevens' Hist. of Meth., 11, 253. 'Stevens' Hist. of Meth., II, p. 253. Asbury's diary says: "This is what came out a college in the subscription printed by Dr. Coke." 3Some account of Cokesbury College, by Rev. Wm. Hamilton. Read before the Maryland Hist. Soc., Jan. 6, 1859, MS. Gabriel Long and a Mr. Bustion were the first subscribers to this early attempt at the establishment of a school. The seed sown by Coke and Dickins fell on ground ready to receive it, and the project was vigor ously pushed. At the famous Christmas conference of the church, held at Baltimore, December 25, 1784, Coke and Asbury were ordained the first bishops, the church was organized and, contemporaneous with the church itself, the college was determined upon. The conference decided that a college should be established, and in honor of the two bishops it received a name compounded from theirs. At the same conference, a collection of £45 15s. sterling was raised as the first gift for the college. This self-denial incurred for the college was kept up year by year. In 1786 the collections for Cokesbury amounted to £800 2s. 11d., and in 1788, having fallen off, they were only £261 15s. 1d.2 Within a very short time a site was chosen and £1,000 sterling was subscribed, a large amount for a weak and struggling church.3 Rules for the government were prepared by Coke, and weighed and digested at the conference. Abingdon, in Harford County, near the Chesapeake, 25 miles from Baltimore, was chosen as the site. The reasons for this were, first, the beauty of the spot, of which Coke said at his second visit: The place delights me more than ever. There is not, I believe, a point of it from which the eye has not a view of at least 20 miles, and in some parts the prospect extends even to 50 miles in length. The water front forms one of the most beautiful views in the United States; the Chesapeake Bay in all its grandeur, with a fine navigable river, the Susquehanna, which empties into it, lying exposed to view through a great extent of country. 5 The other reason was the central position of the locality for Metho dists. It is estimated that there were 14,988 Methodists in the United States in 1784, of whom 5,648 were in Maryland. Furthermore, within ten miles of Abingdon, is the old Deer Creek church, where the conference met in 1777, when the separation from the English brethren took place. In addition to these reasons, Abingdon was very easy of access, being on the direct stage line from Baltimore to Philadelphia. Bishop Coke contracted for the building materials, but could not stay for the beginning of the building, so Bishop Asbury laid the cornerstone of the building on Sunday, June 5, 1785. He makes this entry in his diary: "I rode to Abingdon to preach the foundation sermon of Cokesbury," and, attired in his long silk gown and with his clerical bands floating in the breeze, the Bishop took his stand on the foundation wall and read from the seventy-eighth Psalm as a text: 6 I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us: We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation 'Cummings' Early Schools of Meth., p. 21. 2 Rev. I. P. Cook's MSS. 3 Jan. 3, 1785, circular says, "We have already been favored with subscriptions amounting to £1,057 178. sterling. 4 Some Account of Cokesbury. "Cook's MSS., p 143 6 Vol. 1, p. 497. 7Ps. 78, v. 4 to 8 |