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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



President Daniel C. Oilman. 



men, were the institutions best placed 

 to lead the way, but they might not 

 have done so had they not found the 

 right presidents at the right lime. 

 From the point of view of this journal 

 it is worth emphasis that both owed 

 their preparation to scientific training 

 and teaching. Dr. Eliot was professor 

 of chemistry at the Massachusetts 



Institute of Technology when called to 

 the presidency of Harvard, and Dr. 

 Gilman was professor of geography at 

 Yale when he took up administrative 

 work. 



Dr. Gilman resigned the presidency 

 of the Johns Hopkins in 1901, on reach- 

 ing the age of seventy years and after 

 twenty-six years of office. His death 



