Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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THE STUDY OF SCIENCE AT JOHNS HOPKINSABQAC ff, Q M HAT which is most characteristic of a modern college I or university is, perhaps, its laboratories. The time Q has gone by when a log, with the professor of moral ,Q philosophy at one end and the student at the other, D Q could constitute a university. We hear, on all sides, ' . - WJ of science, of scientific methods. New depart- - Cy' ments of science are being established in every col- lege, and even high schoolg new laboratories are risingg expensive apparatus is necessary, numerous assistants and demon- strators must be provided. From the economic standpoint, as well as from the educational, this new movement is most important. It is worth while, I think, to recall tothe minds of the students of Johns Hopkins University what an important part their university has played and is playing in this educational development in America. It is well for them to know that their Chemical Laboratory was the first in Am-erica opened for re- search and th-e instruction of advanced students, that their Physical and Petro- graphical Laboratories were the first of their kind in the countryg that bio- logical studies on this side the Atlantic date from the foundation of their Bio- logical Laboratory under Professor Martin: that the enormous development i-n recent years of physiological, morphological, anatomical and allied studies can be traced directly to 'the influences of their biological and pathological laboratories. When one looks, however, at the spacious and expensive laboratories now provided for the use of our stu-dents, at the equipment of apparatus and appli- ances, at the number of a-ssistants, one is liable to regard these surroundings as the essential part of laboratory instruction, and to forget the fact that the real foundation of every laboratory is the individual director and his method of instruction. It is well to remember the well authenticated story of Professor Rowland, which tells how, when he was invited by President Gilman to come to Johns Hopkins University and establish a physical laboratory, replied that he would 'be content if he could have a room with a stone-pier and a kitchen- range. Of course, it is not given to every man to be a Rowlandg but the point of the story is plain, that it is not the instruments or the building which does the work, but the man. To train up men so as to be competent to do original research, an-d, above all, to inspire them with the spirit for such work, is the principal aim of laboratory methods. So much good work, work of permanent value, has been done at johns Hopkins, by its professors and students, that it may be of interest to the 9

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younger generation to hear of what their predecessors have done. Each of our laboratories has its own history, its own list of distinguished work, but I shall, for obvious reasons, confine myself to the memories of the laboratory of Physics. Few of us remain who remember the days when the laboratory was confined to a few back rooms 'of the old main building, or how it out- grew 'these and was given the building in the tennis court now used as a car- penter-shop. Yet in the-se days, from 1876 to 1886, before the present labo- ratory was opened, each year saw there enthusiastic students, gathered from all parts of our country, carrying on researches of the greatest interest and importance. Our laboratory has been honored by the presence of many distinguished guests, several of whom have given courses of lectures. Chief among these was Sir William Thomson, now Lord Kelvin, who gave, in the autumn of 1884, an extended series of lectures, which attracted here some twenty of the most advanced students and professors of Physics in the coun- try. Lord Rayleigh was here at the same time, von Helmholtz has visited us since, as has also Professor J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge, and Professor Kayser, of Bonn. But most important of all the memories which are asso- ciated with our laboratory is the roll of great researches which have been carried on within its walls. Few things are better known today to all than the fact that friction always causes what is called heat, but johns Hopkins students should know more, they should know that of all the determinations of how much work is required to produce a definite amount of heat, that one which is accepted as standard the world over was made here by Professor Rowland, with the assistance of several of his students, notably Liebig and Fletcher. Again, what Lord Kelvin said was the most important discovery of the century, the so-called Hall Effect, a phenomenon which serves to connect the theories of light and electricity, was the result of an investigation by Dr. E. H. Hall, now of Harvard, but at that time assistant in the Physical Lab- oratory. No one who is not a stude-nt of science, and particularly of Physics, can knlow how important it is to have fixed standards or units, in terms of which to measure quantities. Further, without these no engineering science could exist. All the civilized nations fwith the exception of the United States of Amerie-aj have agreed upon certain convenient standards, of length of time, of weight, of work, of electrical quantities, etc., and it is well for our students to remember that two of the un-its most in use are founded upon researches carried on a't johns Hopkins. The fundamental electrical unit of resistance is called the ohm , and the present accepted value is that established by Rowland, Kimball, Duncan, Hutchinson and Wilkes. Upon this standard are based all the practical units now so freely used in the commercial and en- I0