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University (_q.v._) is a leading institution of the United States for
graduate study. The Peabody Institute, founded in 1859 by George Peabody,
who was for some years a resident of Baltimore, is an important factor in
the promotion of science, literature and the fine arts. Goucher College
(Methodist, 1888) for women, is one of the best institutions of the kind in
southern United States. The older of the two state normal schools, opened
in 1867, is located here. Morgan College (Methodist), opened in 1876,
offers the advantages of a college education to the coloured young people.
Loyola College, founded in 1852, and various other institutions are for the
training of the Catholics.

The McDonogh farm school, about 12 m. N.W., with a farm of 835 acres, a
printing-office, and carpenter and machine shops prepares poor boys to
enter any college in the country. The institution owes its origin to a
bequest left by John McDonogh. Among the professional schools are the
university of Maryland and Baltimore University--each of which offers
courses in law, medicine and dentistry--the Baltimore Medical College, the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Woman's Medical College, the
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the Maryland College of Pharmacy
(since 1904 part of the university of Maryland), the Baltimore Law School,
St Joseph's Seminary and St Mary's Seminary, which, established by the
Society of St Sulpice in 1791, is said to be the oldest Catholic
theological seminary in the United States. The city also has a Polytechnic
Institute, as well as high schools for white and for coloured pupils. The
principal libraries are those of Johns Hopkins University, Peabody
Institute, Maryland Historical Society, and the Bar Association; and the
Enoch Pratt, the New Mercantile, and Maryland Diocesan (Protestant
Episcopal).

The charitable institutions of Baltimore are numerous. Several such
institutions supported wholly or in part by the state of Maryland (_q.v._)
are located here, and besides these there are scores of others. A
representative list includes:-- the Charity Organization Society, the
primary object of which is to organize the work of the others; the
Baltimore Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor,
which seeks to discourage indiscriminate alms-giving; the Bay View asylum
or city poorhouse; the Children's Aid Society; the Thomas Wilson
Fuel-Saving Society, for furnishing coal at low rates; the Woman's