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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



The Carroll Mansion at Homewood, built in 1803, the architecture of which will 



be the key-note for the new buildings. 



President Gilman and his advisers, not 

 only in deciding that the Johns Hop- 

 kins should be a university rather than 

 a college, but also in adopting stand- 

 ards and ideals, which have not else- 

 where been paralleled. The smallest 

 possible amount of money was spent on 

 buildings, and no attempt was made 

 to cover all kinds of subjects. A small 

 group of professors, each a man of dis- 

 tinction — Rowland, Remsen, Sylvester, 

 Martin, Brooks, Gildersleeve — were 

 brought together, adequately paid and 

 given complete freedom. Fellowships 

 and means of research and publication 

 were provided; the ablest students in 

 the country were drawn to Baltimore. 

 These men are now in nearly every 

 academic center of the country, and 

 tlie influence of the Johns Hopkins and 

 of the university ideal is everywhere. 

 Not only in 1870, but again in 1893, 

 and again with comparatively modest 

 resources, the Johns Hopkins set uni- 

 versity standards by the establishment 

 of its school of medicine. Again a 

 small group of distinguished men — 

 Welch, Osier, Howell. Mall — were 



brought together, and for the first time 

 in this country there was a school of 

 medicine on a proper university basis. 

 Like the graduate faculty of philos- 

 ophy this school has set a model, which 

 other institutions are now following. 

 The country can only in slight meas- 

 ure repay the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity for its great service by giving it 

 the money it now needs. Columbia 

 and Princeton have each received $5,- 

 000,000 within the past year; the 

 Johns Hopkins should have as much. 

 If the writer of this note — who is one 

 of those who came under the influence 

 of the university in its great days — 

 had despotic control of the vast wealth 

 of the country, he would assign to the 

 Johns Hopkins University as many 

 millions as it might ask. But it would 

 not be for new buildings and new de- 

 partments. It would be on condition 

 that the standards set in 187G and 

 1893 snould be maintained, that we 

 should have a university where every 

 teacher is a, great man, free to do his 

 own work in his own way. 



