Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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During thirteen years, fourteen hundred and twenty individuals have been enrolled as students, of whom six hundred and twenty-six have come from Maryland Qincluding four hundred and ninety- four from Baltimorel, and seven hundred and ninety-four from fifty other states and countries. Of this number eight hundred and nineteen persons pursued courses as graduate students, and six hundred and one as collegiate students. Since degrees were first conferred, in 1878, one hundred and seventy-seven persons have attained the Baccalaureate degree, and one hundred and thirty-one have been advanced to the degree of Doc- tor of Philosophy, as appears from the following table :-, l I A. B. l PH. D. A. 8. PH. D. 1877-78 l 1 1883-84 l 23 15 1878-79 8 1 0 1884-85 1 9 13 1879-80 16 5 . 1885-88 1 31 17 ' 1880-81 12 9 1886-87 24 20 1881-82 15 9 1887-88 1 34 27 1882-83 10 l 8 1 Beyond the Philosophical Faculty, the johns Hopkins Univer- sity now turns to Medicine. The completion of a noble group of buildings for the Iohns Hopkins Hospital, its large, separate, and unimpaired endowment, and, above all-, the enlightened a11d far- sighted vision of its managers, are signs of progress upon which the eyes of the medical and surgical world are fixed. It was the in- junction of the founder that the hospital when completed should form a part of the medical school of the university of which he was also the founder, and, accordingly, while every appliance which science and humanity can suggest for the relief of the sick and wounded has been provided, the hospital authorities have con- stantly borne in mind the prospective requirements of a high school of medicine. The time has not yet come for tl1e complete unfold- ing of their purposes. What they will do is largely a question of money. But every step that has been taken indicates a consistent and determined purpose to contribute to the advancement of medi- cine and surgery, with an enlightened regard to the welfare of man- kind. It is certain that in the future of the Johns Hopkins, the medical 9 .

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VIEWS OF CLIFTON

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faculty will hold a rank not in the least inferior to that of phi- losophy. Some recent announcements are significant. From the begin- ning the university has provided a liberal course of studies antece- dent to medicine, including fafter the fundamental study of Latin, mathematics, and Englishj French and German, physics, chemistry, and biology. As the sciences named are taught by laboratory methods and through prolonged periods, the discipline they afford is an admirable training for the hand, the eye, and the brain of those who are afterward to be engaged in the study of disease and the relief of suffering. More recently the university has estab- lished a chair of pathology, which is filled by a professor of rare qualifications, and the laboratory that has been fitted up for him in the autopsy building at the hospital affords every facility for the study of the most recent developments in bacteriology and the theories of disease. An associate professor of human anatomy has been designated, and he is to spend a year in Europe perfecting himself in the latest methods employed in the continental schools. The hospital trustees have been so fortunate as to enlist in their work one of the most distinguished physicians of the country, now a professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and he has also been appointed a professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in the university. It is easy to see that several of the chairs of a School of Medi- cine are thus provided for-chemistry, physiology, comparative anat- omy, human anatomy, pathology, medicine, surgery. Other chairs will, of course, be requisite before a medical school can be thor- oughly organized , but, at present, while the attention of the authorities is directed to the proper beginning of the hospital, med- ical education is in abeyance. Before many years, when the means of the University are enlarged, perhaps 'when a special endowment is received, Baltimore seems destined to become the seat of a sc-hool of medicine, such as does not now exist in the country. From the beginning, the trustees and faculty have endeavored to guide the institution for which they are responsible in such a way as to make it serviceable to American education. They have en- deavored to avoid everything which would appear to rival or injure other institutions, and, on the other hand, to develop ideas which the best minds of the country have pointed out as demanding the 10 ,