THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 
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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVER- 
SITY 
Tne authorities of the Johns Hop- 
kins University have issued a pamphlet 
in the interest of the endowment and 
extension fund which they need and 
should have. The General Education 
Board has undertaken to contribute 
$250,000, on condition that $750,000 
be obtained from other sources: but 
the university aims at more than this. 
It would remove to its new site and 
would complete its university organiza- 
tion by the establishment of a school 
of higher engineering, a law school 
maintaining the standards of its med- 
ical school, and a school for the train- 
ing of teachers. It would also obtain 
an endowment fund for its college, es- 
tablish a department of preventive 
medicine and erect a building for 
pathology. 
When the Johns Hopkins University 
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary 
of its foundation in 1902 a site was 
given to it which cost $500,000, and is 
now worth twice as much. The hun- 
dred and twenty acres, finely situated 
two miles from the center of Balti- 
more, admit of picturesque develop- 
ment beyond the possibilities of any 
other city university. We reproduce 
a plan of the site with pictures of two 
of the buildings which it is intended 

to erect first and of the Carroll man- 
sion on the grounds, which is to serve 
as a model for the architecture. A 
botanical laboratory and garden and an 
athletic field are already in use. The 
administration and academic buildings, 
shown in the illustration, and labora- 
tories tor chemistry, physics, geology 
and botany must be erected promptly. 
These with the power plant, grading, 
ete., will cost about $1.200,000, towards 
which can be used the proceeds of the 
sale of the present site and buildings. 
So long as a national university is 
not established in Washington, there 
is needed a great university at Balti- 
more. The states to the south and 
west are not adequately supplied with 
institutions of higher learning, and for 
a long while the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity will set a model for that region, 
whose industrial development will 
surely be followed by an intellectual 
renaissance, 
The Johns Hopkins University de- 
serves well not only of Baltimore and 
Maryland and the south, but of the 
whole country. When it was opened 
on October 3, 1876, there were colleges 
in this country, but no universities. 
The idea of the university was doubt- 
less in the air, but it was first placed 
on a solid foundation at Baltimore. 
Remarkable wisdom was shown by 

ADMINISTRATION AND ACADEMIC BUILDINGS WITH ENTRANCE TO QUADRANGLD. 
