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rested upon his shoulders and with others he succeeded in obtaining 

 for it increased endowment and in raising it to a higher level of 

 efficiency. The success of his work in this field drew to him the 

 attention of those who were seeking a president for the newly 

 established State University of California, and in 1871 he was called 

 to fill that position, a call which at first he refused, but the next year 

 accepted. In his inaugural address, delivered in Oakland in 1872, he 

 laid down the principles upon which a university should be founded 

 and the plan thus outlined shows how broad and strong the germinal 

 ideas of earlier years were growing. " It is on the faculty " he said, 

 " that the building of a university depends. They give their lives 

 to the work. It is not the site, not the apparatus, nor the halls, nor 

 the library, nor the board of regents, which draws the scholars; it 

 is the body of living teachers, skilled in the specialties, eminent 

 in their calling, loving to teach. Such a body of teachers will make 

 a university anywhere." 



The time had not yet come when those educational ideals, which 

 were finding expression in many writings of this period, though 

 nowhere more simply and concretely than in Dr. Oilman's own 

 utterances, were to find realization.' The University of California 

 was not to prove the laboratory in which his educational experiment 

 was to be tested. Hedged in by the traditions of the college out of 

 which it had grown, limited in its resources, and possessed of an 

 atmosphere that was not in all ways congenial to the broad university 

 policy that Dr. Oilman desired to inaugurate, the university on the 

 Pacific slope in a measure failed in its response to the call which Dr.. 

 Oilman made to it. The scene of his success was not to be the West: 

 but the East, and already in December, 1873, the death of Johns 

 Hopkins, a wealthy merchant and member of the Society of Friends 

 of Baltimore, had rendered available that great gift, the largest 

 known to American education up to that time, which provided for 

 the establishment of a new university in the city on the Patapsco. 



The founding of the Johns Hopkins University took place at an 

 unusual time and under unusual circumstances. Never, in the his- 

 tory of mankind, had the question of university education been 

 under more careful consideration. As Dr. Oilman once said, " A 

 mere enumeration of the reports, histories, controversial pamphlets 



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