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The original 34 young men who enrolled on the first day of classes in 1859 took courses in:

• Latin and Greek
• Modern Languages
• Natural Sciences
• English
• Mathematics

The original rules for students in 1859 included the following:

• No tobacco, no profanity, no alcohol, no gambling, no guns, no duels or attendance at duels
• Students required to deposit their pocket money with the Registrar and to ask his permission before they spent a nickel

The Civil War disrupted the campus

• Abraham Lincoln received only 2,000 out of 92,000 votes in Maryland in the election of 1860
• As the war intensified, many students and professors left the campus to fight for either the Union or the Confederacy