. Maryland Teachers' year book, 1916-1917. Race at Easton, Talbot County, ^lay 13, 1916 TEACHERS YEAR BOOK 43 Public Athletic League of Baltimore the instrument by which thisorganization of a state has been accomplished in the short space ofa year. Thus the Country Gentleman told the story of the first yearsactivities in the schools of Maryland. It should have also told of theorigin of the plan in the mind of William Milnes Maloy, then StateSenator, who secured the appropriation from the Legislature; itcould have mentioned how he and Theodore E. Straus linked thePublic Athletic League with the
. Maryland Teachers' year book, 1916-1917. Race at Easton, Talbot County, ^lay 13, 1916 TEACHERS YEAR BOOK 43 Public Athletic League of Baltimore the instrument by which thisorganization of a state has been accomplished in the short space ofa year. Thus the Country Gentleman told the story of the first yearsactivities in the schools of Maryland. It should have also told of theorigin of the plan in the mind of William Milnes Maloy, then StateSenator, who secured the appropriation from the Legislature; itcould have mentioned how he and Theodore E. Straus linked thePublic Athletic League with the project; how the County Superin-tendents planned the events and harmonized all with the school cur-riculum; and how Dr. Wm. Burdick, Director of the Public AthleticLeague, of Maryland, with trained professional insight and keenappreciation of boy and girl nature, co-operated with the State Su-perintendent and the county school authorities as to give athleticswhat promises to be a permanent place in Marylands Start of Junior 95 Lb. Class—440 Yard Relay at State OlympiadHomewood, Baltimore, June, 1916 44 STATE OF MARYLAND OUR HIGH SCHOOLS—Retrospect and Prospect. Both in Maryland and elsewhere, a great deal has been said andwritten in the past few months about the inviting future opened toour schools under the provisions of the new law; and even now, re-presentative professional opinion can hardly be said to have realizedfully that a measure so much more nearly ideal, as a whole, thaneven the most progressive states have been able to wiite into theirstatutes, is an accomplished fact in Maryland, and is now govern-ing the administration of the schools of the State. In every gather-ing of school people outside of the State, our Maryland law is aprime topic of discussion; and its significance—not only to us, butto the country at large, as well—is to some extent indicated by thenature of the professional comment it has elicited, which is a blendof frank a
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