JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, in Baltimore, Md., began its instructions in 1876. It was established by the liberality of Johns Hopkins, a merchant of Baltimore, who gave a fund of about $7,000,000 for the establishment of a university and a hos pital. The gifts are free from ecclesiastical and political control, and free also from burdensome conditions. It is not intended to use any part of the capital for buildings. The hospital is now being constructed; the university occupies a temporary site, near 44- ..r= the Peabody institute. There are now (1879-80) 32 instructors of various grades, and 1.62 students. There are 70 fellowships open to students from any part of the country, :and a larger number of scholarships, a part of them free tuition, open to young men from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and the district of Columbia; and a part of them open for competition to any young men. Eighty-two of the present students have already received an academic degree. Graduate, matriculate, and non matriculate students are received and instructed according to their various requirements. The degrees of doctor of philosophy and bachelor of arts are conferred upon students who pass the requisite examinations. Equal, care is bestowed upon the scientific and literary departments. Instruction is given in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, German, and English, as well as in the Semitic languages; in logic, philosophy, .history, and
political science. The higher mathematics are taught far beyond the line of the ordinary •college course. In the chemical, physical, and biological laboratories, ample arrange ments have been made for instruction and investigation. The scientific apparatus has -cost nearly $30,000; the library nearly $25,000; and additions are constantly made to the books and instruments. More than 250 literary and scientific periodicals are taken in the reading-room, which is open to the students from 9 A.M. to 10 P.3E. Courses of lectures by resident and non-resident professors are open to the public during a con siderable portion of every year. Classes for teachers in physiology and zoology (both involving the constant use of the microscope), in early English and in mathematics, have been taught on Saturdays. The Chesapeake zoological laboratory, now open at Beaufort, N. C., is engaged in the investigation of marine life on the Atlantic seaboard. .Four scientific publications are issued under the auspices of the university, devoted respectively to mathematics, chemistry, biology, and philology. President, D. C.
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