JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, a university at Baltimore, Md., founded by johns Hopkins, who was born in Maryland and amassed a fortune in Baltimore. He died in 1873 and bequeathed $3,500,000 to found a uni versity. Opened in 1876, it is now one of the foremost universities in the United States. In 1902 a large tract of land in the suburbs of the city, comprising 176 acres (56 of which have been deeded to the city for a public park), was presented by several friends as a future site for the university. This noteworthy gift was fol lowed within a few months by a generous con tribution from alumni and citizens of Baltimore of $1,000,000 toward the permanent endowment of the institution. In the summer of 1916 the equipment of the university, in all departments but medicine and chemistry, was removed to the new site. A commanding structure named Gil man Hall (in honor of the first president of the university) houses the library and provides seminary and classrooms for the non-labora tory subjects, besides offices of administration. It also takes care temporarily of the depart ments of zoology and botany. A separate building close by is equipped for plant physiol ogy and botanical research work. There are two fine buildings for engineering, and the de partments of physics, geology and undergraduate chemistry find temporary homes therein The department of engineering was organized in 1912, funds for buildings and equipment •av ing been appropriated by the State legislature. A most important part of the university is the medical school — begun in 1893 — occupying several buildings in the immediate vicinity of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The most recent addition to the medical work is the school of hygiene and public health established by the Rockefeller Foundation, to be opened in 1917. Connected with the university is the Johns Hop kins Press, from which issue the American Journal of Mathematics; The American Jour nal of Philology; Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory; Studies in Historical and Political Science; Beitrage zur Assyriologie; Modern Language Notes; Hesperia; Johns Hopkins University Circular; Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, etc. The degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of science in engineering, master of arts, mas ter in engineering, doctor of philosophy and doctor of medicine are conferred. The uni
reported at the close of 1916 — profes sors, instructors and lecturers, 274; students, 1,668; number of graduates, 3,300; volumes in the library, 197,000• productive funds, $6,000, 000; grounds and buildings valued at $3,360, 000; value of books and apparatus, $633,000; income, $565,000. The university offers a large number of fellowships and scholarships for the encouragement of promising or needy students. Five endowed scholarships, three endowed fellowships, 10 university fellowship and 55 free tuition scholarships are open to college graduates. For undergraduates in arts and sciences there are 43 free tuition scholarships; for engineering students 129; for medical stu dents seven. The university receives as students the following classes: College graduates, men or women, who may proceed to the higher de grees, or may work for longer or shorter periods in the various seminaries or labora tories without reference to a degree; under graduate students looking forward to the de gree of bachelor of arts, or of bachelor of science in engineering; candidates for the de gree of doctor of medicine, for whom a four year course is provided, and who may be either men or women; doctors of medicine desiring to pursue Pertain special courses; students who have not taken a degree, and are not looking forward to a degree, but who desire to avail themselves for a brief period of the opportuni ties here offered. College courses for teachers and others, at convenient hours in the afternoon and evening and on Saturday morning, have been provided for several years. In the autumn of 1916 the university inauguarated evening courses in business economics and in engineer ing subjects. Summer courses have been con ducted since 1911. Work in these three groups may be credited toward the degree of bachelor of science. It is difficult to overestimate the in fluence of the Johns Hopkins University lOr *16;11).
higher education in this country. There is scarcely an American college faculty that has not been enriched by the presence of one or more of its graduates, bringing with them at least something of the spirit of the institution, and its respect for exact scholarship and regard for scientific truth