THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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THE PEOGEESS OF SCIENCE 



TEE JOENS EOPKINS UNIVER- 

 SITY 



The authorities of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University have issued a pamphlet 

 in the interest of the endowment and 

 extension fund which they need and 

 should have. The General Education 

 Board has undertaken to contribute 

 $250,000, on condition that $750,000 

 be obtained from other sources: but 

 the university aims at more than this. 

 It would remove to its new site and 

 would complete its university organiza- 

 tion by the establishment of a school 

 of higher engineering, a law school 

 maintaining the standards of its med- 

 ical school, and a school for the train- 

 ing of teachers. It would also obtain 

 an endowment fund for its college, es- 

 tablish a department of preventive 

 medicine and erect a building for 

 pathology. 



When the Johns Hopkins University 

 celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary 

 of its foundation in 1902 a site was 

 given to it which cost $500,000, and is 

 now worth twice as much. The hun- 

 dred and twenty acres, finely situated 

 two miles from the center of Balti- 

 more, admit of picturesque develop- 

 ment beyond the possibilities of any 

 other city university. We reproduce 

 a plan of the site with pictures of two 

 of the buildings which it is intended 



to erect first and of the Carroll man- 

 sion on the grounds, which is to serve 

 as a model for the architecture. A 

 botanical laboratory and garden and an 

 athletic field are already in use. The 

 administration and academic buildings, 

 shown in the illustration, and labora- 

 tories ior chemistry/ physics, geology 

 and botany must be erected promptly. 

 These with the power plant, grading, 

 etc., will cost about $1 200,000, towards 

 which can be used the proceeds of the 

 sale of the present site and buildings. 



So long as a national university is 

 not established in Washington, there 

 is needed a great university at Balti- 

 more. The states to the south and 

 west are not adequately supplied with 

 institutions of higher learning, and for 

 a long while the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity will set a model for that region, 

 whose industrial development will 

 surely be followed by an intellectual 

 renaissance. 



The Johns Hopkins University de- 

 serves well not only of Baltimore and 

 Maryland and the south, but of the 

 whole country. When it was opened 

 on October 3, 1876, there were colleges 

 in this country, but no universities. 

 The idea of the university was doubt- 

 less in the air, but it was first placed 

 on a solid foundation at Baltimore. 

 Remarkable wisdom was shown by 



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Administration and Academic Buildings with Entrance to Quadrangle. 



