Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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After this he taught for a year in the Albany KN. Yjp Academy. In 1863 Dr. G1-iiiin went to the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied for two years, with an interval of one year spent as instructor in VVilliams College. He then. went to Union Theologi- cal Seminary, in N. Y., where he graduated in theology in 1867. Dr. Griffin's first and only pastorate was in the First Congrega' tional Church of Burlington, Vermont. He remained there for five years. after which he was elected Professor of Latin in VVilliams College, where he afterwards also occupied the Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. He remained there until the time of his coming to Baltimore. Last October Prof. Griffin entered up011 his duties ill the Johns Hopkins University, as Professor of History of Philosophy,'besides having the general control of the undergraduates, as Dean. He also has charge of the classes in Psychology and Ethics. Dr. Griffin received the honorary degree of D.D. from Amherst in ISSO, and that of LL. D. from Princeton in 1888. Prof. Paul Haupt. born in Gorlitz, Germany, November 25th, 1858, was educated first at the Gorlitz Gymnasium, and later at the Universities of Berlin and Leipsic. At Leipsic he took the degree of PH.D. in 1878. Dr. Haupt was private tutor at the University of Gottingen in 1880, and Professor of Assyriology there in 1883. In the same year he accepted an invitation to become Professor of the Semitic Languages in the Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Haupt introduced the principle of the neogrammarians into semitic philology, and discovered the Sumerian dialect in 1880. He is an associate editor of Hebriier. Prof. Henry Newell Martin was born in Newry, Ireland, on the ISL of july, 1848. He studied at University College, London, and from the Univer- sity of London received the degrees of B. s., in 1870, M. B., in 1871, and DR. SC., in 1872, where also he was appointed University Scholar in Zoology and Physiology. From the University of London, he went to Christ College, Cam- bridge, where he took the degree of B. A., in I574, and that of M. A., in 1877. He became Fellow of his College, as well as Lecturer on Natural History. At the opening of the johns Hopkins University, Dr. Martin was called to the Chair of Biology here, where he is also Director of the Biological laboratory. Prof. Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, besides being a member of many scientific societies i11 the United States. I4

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SKETCHE8 OF PRGFESSORS. President Daniel Coit Gilman was born on the sixth day of july, 1831, in Norwich, Connecticut. In the year 1852 he graduated at Yale, after which he continued his studies, first in New Haven and later in Berlin. He travelled extensively in Europe, giving special attention tu the social, political and educational aspects of the countries which he visited, as well as to their physical structure. In 1855, having returned from Europe, he accepted the position of Librarian of Yale University. Afterwards he became also Professor of Physical and Political Geography there, and Secretary of the Gov- erning Board of the Sheffield Scientific School. For a time Dr. Gilman was Superintendent of the Public Schools of New Haven, and subsequently of the State Board of Education. In 1870, while still at Yale, he was called to become the first President of the University of California. This call he declined, but accepted a similar one two years later. In 1875 he was elected President of the johns Hopkins Vniversity. then just on the point of being opened. The degree to which he has contributed to the success of this institution, both in its infancy and in its cloudy days, is well known to all. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon President Gilman by Harvard University in 1876, and by Columbia in 1887. Prof. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve was born in Charles- town, S. C., October 25d, 1851. Having graduated at Princeton in 1849, he went to Europe, where, for some years, he studied at the Universities of Bonn, Berlin and Gottingen. At the last named insti- tution he took the degree of PH.D., in the year 1853. 5 On returning to this country, Dr. Gildersleeve was elected Profes- sor of Greek in the University of Virginia, where he remained from 1856 to 1876. From 1861 to 1866 he occupied also the Chair of Latin in that University. On the establishment of this Yniversity, Prof. Gildersleeve was called to the Chair of Greek here, which position he has since held. Prof. Gildersleeve received the honorary degree of LL.1J. from the College of William and Mary, in 1869, and from Harvard I'niversity, in 1886. In 1884 he received the degree of D. c.1.. from the University of the South. He is an honorary member of the Cambridge tEng.J Philological Society and of the Philological Syllogos of Constantinople. Prof. Edward Herrick Griffin was born in XViill8Ill5tOXVll, Mass., November 18th, 1843. He was educated at Williams College, where he was graduated in 1862. 13

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I11 1881 he l1ad conferred upo11 hin1 tl1e honorary degree of x1.11. by the l'niversity of Georgia. In 1883 he was appointed Croonian Lecturer of tl1e Royal Society of London for that year. He is editor of the Studies from the Biological Laboratory, and associate editor of tl1e The journal of Physiology. Dr. Martin 'was associated with Thomas ll. Huxley in the prepa- ration of his Practical Biology 118761, and is the author of The Human Body t1881l, Zllld, with XVillian1 A. Moale, ofa Hand-book of Vertebrate Dissection -tthree parts, 1881-18841. Dr. Simon NGWCOITID was born ill Xlfallace, N. S.. March 12tl1, 1835. He was educated by his father, a11d taught for a time. Having COIIIC to the United States in 1853, during 1854-6 he taught in Mary- la11d. In 1857 he became computer on tl1e Nautical Almanac, then published i11 Cambridge. Mass. He entered tl1e Lawrence Scientific School, where he graduated i11 1858. For three years after that he continued there as a graduate student. Ill 1861 Prof. Newcomb was chosen Professor of Mathematics in the Vnited States Navy, being put o11 duty at the U. Naval Observ- atory ill XVashington. In 1871 he was appointed Secretary of the Commission created by Congress to observe the transit of Venus i11 1874. In 1877 he became Senior Professor of Mathematics in the U. S. Navy, with the rank of Captain, a11d has since had charge of the American liphemeris and Nautical Almanac. In addition to these duties, Dr. Newcomb is Professor of Mathe- matics and Astronomy in this University. Even a brief list of his writings cannot be given here, as the re- sults of his scientific works are embodied in over one hundred papers a11d memoirs. His books on Astronomy and Mathematics are well known to many. Prof. Newcomb is a member of all the prominent scientific soci- eties in the world. He is editor of the American Mathematical Journal. In 1874 he received the degree of LL. D. from Columbian Vniversity of Wasliingtoiig the same from Yale ill 1875, from Harvard in 1884 a11d fro111 COil.11llbiZ1 ill 1887. On the three hundredth a1111iver- sary of the founding of the Vniversity of Leipzig, he had conferred upo11 him the degree of PH. D., and he received the sa1ne honor from the lfniversity of Heidelberg 011 its five hu11dredtl1 anniversary, ill 1886. ' Dr. William Osler was born in Tecumseh, Ontario, July 12th, 1849. He received his education at Trinity College, Toronto, at the Toronto School of Medicine and at the McGill Vniversity, receiving his degree of M. D. at the last llamed institution in 1872. He subsc- I5