Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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lid S 0 Q Q 0 Ozew-cute! or long-fnaiu ? . dvenguind or flaio 27 . . . ifooeieu or Kfzalzmind 17 . . caffeine or mofzplzine I7 . . . college or countzg-club ? he group of buildings, burnished- red and white, clusters around the bowl which rises out of the fan that Charles Street makes at 34th, circles back into the woods of Roland Park and out into the hinterlands of Univer- sity Parkway, rolls gently up to the grounds of Marine Hospital, or more picturesquely, dips and rises until it comes to rest at The Baltimore Museum of Art. A pretty place, strangers passing through Baltimore will say, a pretty place, but it comes on you so sud- denly. A pretty place, remote, isolated even in the heart of the city. Away from it all. Perhaps, too, in the irony which they have unconsciously attached to a casual description of Johns Hopkins, the stranger and the dis- interested spectator have seen Homewood in a Clearer light than it has any right to ask. F or even now, now in 1949, Hopkins is a place of paradox, a home for contradictions, a last resort-or maybe the Hrst, who knows?-for the harmony of dischord. In a year when American colleges feverishly replaced aging or tiring presidents with generals, bankers, or glorified Bremen, Hopkins calmly bucked the current by inaugurating as its president a man 7? whose fame, little outside his profession, lay in academic accomplishment and his slow, patient pursuit of the elusive in a world which demanded the tangible and the now. Surprise and ignorance sent vacationing undergraduates into Who's Who during the summer of '48, following the announcement of the Board of Trustees that a successor to Dr. Isaiah Bowman had been chosen. Gilman Hall rumors, hot scoops from Levering, inside tips from the sons of the fathers-pointing the positive finger at this soldier, at that states- man, at another prominent figure in public

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life-had to be swallowed, with the solemn admission of all concerned that, by Jingo, they'd done it again. There was no predicting what Hopkins was going to do next. ooking back, one had to admit that it'd always been like that, Hopkins the paradox, Hopkins the exception. Even in its genesis, there had been that elusive but deh- nite trend away from the way one did it. In the midst of clamors that the German model just wouldn't go, Daniel Gilman had fulfilled the dreams of a Baltimore merchant and set up the first really Hrst-rate graduate school in America. And its early years, spent in buildings which were deemed less important than the actiyities which were going on within them, seemed quietly contradictory to the reputation which was gathering about The johns Hopkins. . . . new boss atwork . .. Its growth, its transitions, its crises fol- lowed the same path-patternless except for their lack of pattern, unpredictable because they 'were setting their own tradition. VVhile the graduate school quietly gathered about it the great names of Remsen and Royce, while it continued to be the one great center of acl- -18