LITTLE BIOGRAPHIES.—HOW

themselves — it was necessary to the development
of mental and moral muscle. But he would give
them .knowledge, which Daniel Webster said, at
the laying of the corner stone of Bunker Hill
Monument, “is the great sun in the firmament ;
life and power are scattered with all its beams.”
His old heart went out, too, toward the sick, and
toward orphan children, because these could not
earn for themselves.

Therefore it was, that at his death, December
24th, 1873, when his will was read, it was found
that he had left seven million dollars tofound Johns
Hopkins University and Hospital. It was a grand
Christmas gift to a city, to the world at large.

 

 

JOHNS HOPKINS.

Broad and wise in his giving, he made no condi-
tions, save that the principal should not be used
for buildings ; these were to be erected out of the
income; and there was a request that there be
. several free scholarships for poor students from
three States — Maryland, Virginia and North Caro-
lina; and in the Hospital, which should be built
only after careful investigations of similar institu-
tions abroad, there should be a training-school for
nurses ; and on another piece of land, he provided
for an asylum for four hundred destitute or orphan
colored children. Plans of the Hospital, which
will be one of the working schools of the great

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University, are hung in the halls of Oxford and
Cambridge, for the whole world is looking to see
what the seven million dollars of the grocery boy
will accomplish.

And what have they already accomplished? The
trustees, whom Mr. Hopkins had selected and
appointed, looked about the country for a presi-
dent, and the choice fell upon the youthful leader
of the University of California, who had married
the daughter of President Woolsey of Yale College.
When Doctor Gilman came to Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins’s sister said to him, “I had thought of an
older man.” He replied with a smile, “It is a
fault which will mend ‘daily. Jassure you, madam,
I will be as old as ever I can.”

A letter recently received from one of the pro-
fessors in the University says: “ Johns Hopkins’s
knowledge of men was superb. He knew by a
kind of instinct whom he could trust. But the
wisest choice he ever made was the choice of his
Board of Trustees, and the Board has shown its
sovereign sense in the choice of President Gil-
man.”

The best professors possible have been secured :
Professor Sylvester, to whom the Royal Society of
London gave its highest scientific distinction, the .
Copley Medal, for the chair of mathematics; Pro-
fessor Martin of Cambridge University, Biology ;
Doctor Haupt of Gottingen, only thirty years of
age, for Hebrew, Arabic, Assyrian, Ethiopic and
other languages —in short, there now are forty-
one able scholars on the academic staff. Stu-
dents, most of them already graduated from other
colleges, soon began to gather here for higher
education in special lines of work. Of five hun-
dred who have studied at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, only forty have gone into business; a
large proportion have become professors and in-
structors. Perhaps Johns Hopkins planned even
better than he knew, when he threw his great
pebble into the ocean of knowledge; the circles
will go on widening.

The spirit of its founder certainly pervaded the
institution. Six valuable journals are maintained by
the University ; in Mathematics, Chemistry, Philol-
ogy, Biology, Historical and Political Science, and
Logic. Much has been done in original research.
Says a recent writer,.“An idler is an unknown
bird at the Johns Hopkins University. Its mem-
bers are here, not for boating, base-ball playing,
and hazing, but for work.” The atmosphere is
scholarly. For several years there has not been
reason for any officer to censure a student for dis- ©
order or discourtesy.

Each year twenty Fellowships of five hundred
dollars each are given to as many scholars of
marked ability who are fitting themselves for a life-
work of study. Among these recipients are Mit-
sura Kuhara and Kakichi Mitsukuri of the Univer-
sity of Tokio, Japan. Another is from the University