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never be reversed as long as the Johns Hopkins University 

 shall endure. 



I have but one word more to say, and that concerns 

 Dr. Oilman's own attainments in the world of scholar- 

 ship. He lived amid surroundings where the truest ideals 

 of scholarship reigned, he viewed with the highest satis- 

 faction the attainments and productions of those who were 

 with him or about him, he incited the younger generation 

 to efforts that culminated in thorough and painstaking 

 work, he discouraged self-satisfaction with any result, no 

 matter how highly applauded, but his busy life gave him 

 no opportunity to leave behind him any monument in 

 printer's ink which represented prolonged research or 

 marked important advance in any field of scientific 

 endeavor. His monument is of another kind. He gave 

 himself to the building of a home for scholars, to the pre- 

 paring of the soil in which; the seeds of scholarship found 

 rich nourishment for prolific growth, in creating an atmo 

 sphere which stimulated the scholar to develop the best 

 that was in him and to embody his efforts in a form 

 admired of the scientific world. But if Dr. Gilman never 

 actually entered into that narrower field, to which too 

 often the term scholarship is limited, he was a man of 

 scholarly attainments in the larger world where culture 

 and the humanities hold important place. He was a 

 scholar of wide and versatile learning, to whom little that 

 concerned the uplifting of the human race was foreign ; 

 he was learned with an intimate knowledge of what the 

 laboratories, the seminaries, the exploring expeditions, 

 the archaeological investigations, and the scores of other 

 fontes of scientific knowledge were pouring forth for the 

 advancement of learning; he possessed the scholarly 

 power of co-ordinating the results which others attained 

 and of showing the significance of these results for civi- 

 lization in general. His was a type of scholarship which 

 is all too rare, and the world would be poor indeed were 

 it to suffer eclipse. Minute and painstaking research, 



