Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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PROFESSOR BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE

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Professorial Types. HOSIC of us who, for one reason or another, were especially interested in the establishment of the johns I-Iopkins University, may lie pardoned for considering the year T876 a memorable year in the history of higher education in America, may be pardoned for thinking, and even for saying, that the centenary of the Declaration of Independence witnessed a second Declaration of Indepen- dence-Independence of the tyrannous Use and XVont that kept, and still keeps, so many of the higher schools of our country bound. The motto of our University, The truth shall make you free, at once a prophecy and a commandment, is a sentence that can never be pondered too muchg but it must be remembered that if it is the truth that makes us free, it is freedom that opens the way to truth, and it was this freedom proclaimed in 1576 that produced the thrill of life that we can never forget, that the educational world of America has continued to feel. But, though this annual bears the name Hopkinsian, and the writers for the I-Iopkinsian may be allowed to say all manner of patriotic things about Hopkinsian achievements, still we must not claim everything, and it may be as well to admit gracefully that much of what we have wrought had been in preparation for a long time. Our song ot victory, like one of Pindar's noblest odes, must be a glorilication of opportunity. The fullness of time had come and the season was ours. In any case, whether it be opportunity, whether it be coincidence, there is no question that in the period of time that has elapsed since 1876 many features, either wholly new or else only lore-shadowed in former days, have entered permanently into the aspect of university life, and one of them, and not the least important, is the protes- sionalism of the professorship, XVithin a comparatively recent period there was no such thing in this country as training for a college or university profes- sorship. Training schools tor teachers are no novelty, but that a young man should deliberately select a professorship as a career in life would have been II