Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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 ,

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support of a great endowment. Consequently, the laboratories have been freely opened to men engaged in scientilic research, books and periodicals have been freely purchased and liberally lent, the pages of the periodicals printed here have been opened to writers in any place. Liberal aid has been given to important inquiries, sometimes instituted by the National Government fas in electricity and magnetismjg or by municipal request Qrespecting, for example, the purity of drinking water and the protection of the public healthy, or by the State of Maryland Qas in respect to the principles of taxation and the protection of oyster Hsheriesjg or from purely scientific impulses fas in the production of spectrum gratings and the study of lightl. Aid has been given to the publica- tion of learned works, valuable but not remunerative, like the 'fDz'fz'rzrhe, the Syrian Antilegomenaf' the Lectures of Sir William Thomson, Contributions to Logic, etc. These are but examples of a series of cooperative undertakings, from which the historical, economical, and educational papers must on no account be omitted. To all requests for such cooperation the university has responded without reference to pecuniary returns. Respecting the finances of the university, which have been the subject of many remarks during the last few months, the following statements were publicly made, at the exercises of Commemoration Day, February 22, 1889 :-H It is true that we have lost for a time our income from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the securities to which the sagacious founder 'of the University entrusted his endow- ment with so much confidence that he recommended his Trustees not to dispose of the stock, but to keep it as an investment. He was doubtless influenced by the fact that this security was free from the taxation which would fasten itself upon another investment. We believe that this suspension of dividends upon the part of the Baltimore and Ghio Railroad is but temporary, and that the stock is now, and always will be, property of great value. But we have possessions of even greater worth. The johns Hopkins University owns nearly 3oo acres of land, within the present limits of the city, which will soon be laid out in streets and avenues. Fifteen or six- teen miles of street frontage can then be sold or leased. ' The past at least is secure,' but to this familiar utterance we can safely add, ' the future is as secure as the past.' Our cause for anxiety is the present. How shall we make the transit between the prosperity of 12