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liams, the geologist, whose memory is cher- 

 ished with admiration and love. Nor do I 

 forget those who have here been trained to 

 become leaders in their various depart- 

 ments throughout the country. One must 

 be named, who has gone from their num- 

 ber, Keeler, the gifted astronomer, who 

 died as the chief of the Lick Observatory 

 in California, whose contributions to as- 

 tronomical science place him among the 

 foremost investigators of our day ; and an- 

 other, the martyr Lazear, who, in order 

 that the pestilence of yellow fever might 

 be subdued, gave up his life for humanity. 



Like clouds that rake the mountain summit, 

 Or waves that own no curbing hand, 



How fast has brother followed brother 

 From sunshine to the sunless land. 



It is sad to recall these interrupted careers. 

 It is delightful to remember the elevated 

 character of those I have named, and de- 

 lightful to think of hundreds who have 

 been with us, carriers to distant parts of 

 our country and to other lands of the seeds 

 which they gathered m our gardens of sci- 

 ence. It is delightful to live in this age of 

 bounty; it is delightful to Imow that the 

 citizens of Baltimore who in former years 

 have supplemented the gifts of the founder 

 by more than a million of dollars have 

 come forward to support a new adminis- 

 tration with the gift of a site of unsur- 

 passed beauty and fitness. A new day 

 da-wns. "It is always sunrise somewhere 

 in the world." 



INAUGURAL ADDRESS.* 

 It has been said that ' old men tell of 

 what they have seen and heard, children 

 of what they are doing, and fools of what 

 they are going to do.' Your speaker, fear- 

 ing to furnish data that may suggest to 

 you his place in this system of classifica- 

 tion, prefers this morning to deal with 

 * By President Remsen, on the occasion of hia 

 inauguration as President of the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



matters that are largely independent of 

 time. 



The American University as distin- 

 guished from the College is a compara- 

 tively recent product of evolution— or of 

 creation. Being young, its character is not 

 fully developed, and we can only speculate 

 in regard to its future. On an occasion of 

 this kind, when one of the young universi- 

 ties of the country is celebrating in a quiet 

 way the twenty-fifth anniversary of its 

 foundation, and when a new presiding of- 

 ficer makes his first appearance before a 

 large assembly, it seems fitting that he 

 upon whom has been placed the responsi- 

 bility of guiding, for the present, the af- 

 fairs of the University, should take the 

 opportunity thus afi'orded of giving ex- 

 pression to a few thoughts that suggest 

 themselves when one begins to reflect upon 

 the significance of the University move- 

 ment in this country. Everyone at all ac- 

 quainted with educational matters knows 

 that the differentiation of the University 

 from the College is the most characteristic 

 fact in the history of higher education dur- 

 ing the past quarter century. It is well 

 that we should ask ourselves. What does 

 this tendency mean ? Whither is the move- 

 ment likely to carry us? 



While, from the beginning, the authori- 

 ties of the Johns Hopkins University have 

 maintained a collegiate department as well 

 as a graduate or university department, 

 and have endeavored to make this as effi- 

 cient as possible under existing circum- 

 stances, the subjects that present them- 

 selves in connection with this branch of 

 our work are so familiar and have been so 

 much discussed that I can pass over them 

 now without danger of giving the impres- 

 sion that we consider these subjects of less 

 importance than those more directly con- 

 nected with the work of the University. 

 At all events, in what I shall have to say, 

 I propose to confine myself to the latter. 



