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is no doubt largely ascribable to the peculiar makeup of irrespon¬ 
sible governing boards. Their members are not usually drawn 
from university circles, are commonly unsympathetic, and wholly 
untutored in even the fundamentals of higher educational training; 
their only claims to mention in “Who’s Who” rest on some fancied 
executive quality entirely foreign to their natures; they thrill at 
hullabaloo rather than the Ph.D., and consider only the Brawn 
Goddess of college worship. 
But the State Universities are not alone in this respect. At 
least four of the “Big Six” are likewise afflicted; and probably the 
majority of the 400 other colleges and universities. In the in¬ 
stance of the famous Baltimore institution the fact that a quarter 
of a century’s determined effort to replace a truly national uni¬ 
versity by an indifferent city trade-school brings not the anticipated 
results is high tribute to the tremendous sustaining power of the 
Gilmanian afflatus. It is, as in the Roman state of old, which 
after the passing of the noble Roman himself, continued to func¬ 
tion for three centuries in the hands of bondmen, slaves and 
foreign peasants. 
Analysis of the “new blood” transfused to the One Thousand 
leading men of science reveals the curious fact that measured by 
the “stars” contributed, first strength in eight departments rests 
with the Johns Hopkins university, and the remaining four of the 
twelve departments go to Harvard. Guaged by the same cri¬ 
terion Yale’s strong department is Geology wherein it ranks with 
Chicago and Johns Hopkins; yet half of her departments con¬ 
tribute not a single unit. Columbia’s leading departments appear to 
be Zoology, Geology and Psychology. Cornell’s are Botany and 
Geology. .Chicago has five strong departments with that of Geol¬ 
ogy ranking as her best. Among the “Big Six” institutions more 
than one-half of the departments contribute either none or no 
more than a single man. 
Still another point of surpassing interest is the geographic 
origin of American scientific men. It is a strong contrast of city 
and country. Somewhere President Elliot observes: “The country 
breeding gives vigor and an endurance which in the long-run 
outweigh all city advantages and enable the well endowed country 
boys to outstrip their city competitors.” Effete Baltimore, with 
her great university within her narrow bounds, furnishes, aside 
