church, and he had a wide acquaintance among the great men of colonial days, including Benjamin Franklin. Joining General Washington on the Board of Visitors and Governors of the new college were such distinguished figures as U.S. Senator John Henry, Congressman Joshua Seney and William Paca, Governor of Maryland. The Maryland legislature granted its first college charter to Washington College in May 1782. The following spring, on May 14, 1783, the college held its first commencement.
President Smith had envisaged Washington College as the Eastern Shore campus of a public "University of Maryland" with St. John's College as its Western Shore counterpart, a proposal incorporated into the later institution's 1784 state charter, but the Maryland General Assembly's reluctance to provide funding meant this was never more than a paper institution, and the relationship ended with Smith's return to Philadelphia in 1789.
With his election as the first President of the United States, General Washington retired from the …
中文名/译名
SAT EBRW 25%
605
SAT EBRW 75%
690
SAT Math 25th %
580
SAT Math 75th %
655
ACT Composite 25th %
25
ACT Composite 50th %
28
ACT Composite 75th %
30
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