University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) Eastern Shore Campus
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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) Eastern Shore Campus
University of Maryland, College Park--Eastern Shore
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University of Maryland, College Park--Eastern Shore
Maryland University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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Maryland University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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University of Maryland
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University of Maryland
University of Maryland Princess Anne, Md
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University of Maryland Princess Anne, Md
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Began on Sept. 13, 1886 under the auspices of the Delaware Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church it opened as the Delaware Conference Academy in Princess Anne; subsequently bore the title of Industrial Branch of Morgan State College, still under the influence of the Delaware Conference; as originally operated by Morgan State College under the control of the Methodist Church the institution was known as Princess Anne Academy; State of Maryland in operating its land-grant program at the Maryland Agricultural College at College Park, to which African Americans were not admitted as students, sought to provide a Land-Grant program for African Americans and assumed control of the Princess Anne Academy renaming it the Eastern Shore Branch of the Maryland Agricultural College; the arrangement was effected in 1919; 1926, the College passed into complete control and ownership of the State and the University of Maryland was designated as the administrative agency; 1948 the Eastern Shore Branch of the University of Maryland, popularly known as Princess Anne College, became officially Maryland State College, a division of the University of Maryland; on July 1, 1970, Maryland State College became the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
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