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THE CARROLL MANSION AT Hompwoop, built in 1803, the architecture of which will 
be the key-note for the new buildings. 
President Gilman and his advisers, not 
only in deciding that the Johns Hop- 
kins should be a university rather than 
a college, but also in adopting stand- 
ards and ideals, which have not else- 
where been paralleled. The smallest 
possible amount of money was spent on 
buildings, and no attempt was made 
to cover all kinds of subjects. A small 
group of professors, each a man of dis- 
tinction—Rowland, Remsen, Sylvester, 
Martin, Brooks, Gildersleeve—were 
brought together, adequately paid and 
given complete freedom. Fellowships 
and means of research and publication 
were provided; the ablest students in 
the country were drawn to Baltimore. 
These men are now in nearly every 
academic center of the country, and 
the influence of the Johns Hopkins and 
of the university ideal is everywhere. 
Not only in 1876, but again in 1893, 
and again with comparatively modest 
resources, the Johns Hopkins set uni- 
versity standards by the establishment 
of its school of Again a 
small group of distinguished men— 
Welch, Osler, Howell, Mall—were 
medicine. 

brought together, and for the first time 
in this country there was a school of 
medicine on a proper university basis. 
Like the graduate faculty of philos- 
ophy this school has set a model, which 
other institutions are now following. 
The country can only in slight meas- 
ure repay the Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity for its great service by giving it 
the money it now needs. Columbia 
and Princeton have each received $5,- 
000,000 within the past year; the 
Johns Hopkins should have as much. 
lf the writer of this note—who is one 
of those who came under the influence 
of the university in its great days— 
had despotic control of the vast wealth 
of the country, he would assign to the 
Johns Hopkins University as many 
millions as it might ask. But it would 
not be for new buildings and new de- 
partments. It would be on condition 
that the standards set in 1876 and 
1893 snould be maintained, that we 
shoula have a university where every 
teacher is a great man, free to do his 
own work in his own way. 
