14 MEMORIAL TO DANIEL COIT OILMAN. 



University of California. As evidences of his activity as a 

 public-spirited citizen in the community where he lived may be 

 mentioned his formation of the Charity Organization Society 

 and of the Municipal Art Society in Baltimore, and his services 

 as a member of the New Charter Commission and as a Commis- 

 sioner of Public Schools in that city. 



Retiring in 1901, at the age of seventy, after twenty-five years 

 of service, from the presidency of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 Mr. Oilman in January, 1902, became one of the incorporators 

 and the President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, as 

 well as chairman of its Executive Committee. Resigning the 

 presidency in December, 1904, he continued to serve the Institu- 

 tion as Trustee and member of the Hxecutive Committee until 

 his death. 



To his trusteeship and the presidency of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, Mr. Oilman brought the prestige of a name 

 long identified with the advancement of the interests of higher 

 education and sound learning. In cooperation with his associ- 

 ates in the Board of Trustees, he entered upon an arduous task 

 in an unexplored field with enthusiasm, devotion, and energy, in 

 full sympathy with the far-reaching conceptions of the founder, 

 with discernment of the novel and great opportunities presented, 

 and in a spirit of open-minded, conscientious study of the new 

 problems, securing at home and abroad the advice and aid of 

 scientific authorities. Under his administration the new Institu- 

 tion was successfully launched upon broad lines of policy and 

 attained, even in this early formative period, a position of large 

 usefulness and importance. 



With grateful appreciation of Mr. Oilman's services to the 

 Institution, the Trustees express their sorrow in the loss of an 

 honored associate whose life was full of good works and large in 

 achievement. 



