Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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medical school, a hospital. In Heidelburg, you heard of it, in Prague, at the Sorbonne, and how about Peiping?-but you were lucky if they even knew about the med school down the commercial trend was growing among American colleges-the insistence that the university was big business with a capital B, that its position as an influence in the twen- F Bowman and Shafer . . . new jobs all found . . . in East Podunk. Hopkins was still that sort of place. And still, grow and expand with the times as it could and did, it insisted on its unique place in American education. As the century grew older, and the country less the tiny, simple nation it had been a century earlier, tieth-century community was more to be determined by its corporate profits than its doctorate theses. A new kind of college presi- dent, attuned to the times, began to emerge: paunchy, jovial often, a man of kid-gloves and the right connections, a quick man with the checkbook and fountain pen-for all to see: . . . wheels at play . . . my 110

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vanced learning in early twentieth-century America, while it poured out the great schol- ars and teachers of the future to the universi- ties the nation over which were learning to follow its example, its medical school, re- sounding With the names of Osler and VVelch, Halsted and Kelly, gained the fame which the public has ever since associated with Johns Hopkins. C You go to Johns Hopkins, the average Hopkins undergraduate is asked at least fifty times annually. Then Where do you expect to practice? D Actually, of course, . . . Miss Davis had registration problems too . . . the brilliant trail-blazing being publicized at the medical school and hospital was being quietly consolidated and strengthened with the more critically important research of the University. The glamour of the surface was being underwritten by the scholars. The foundations were being found secure. Even its fame as a graduate school eluded the traditional fulfillment. Scholars from abroad learned early in the century to rhapso- dize over the Hopkins, yet at home it con- tinued to be no more than a name, a place, a . . . Ilffeyer and Vandercook made some eyes widen . . . 915

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. . . frosh week wasn't all orientation . . . mind. Hopkins, one of the boats against the current, refused to sell out. VVhich brings it to 1949. And a new era. And a new mood. And a new president. 1949 meant Bronk. he man who had cost the tipsters money in the spring and summer of 1949, seemed himself another addition to the ever- Dean Cox ...two ojices now . . . education's new linger-man. Through it all, Hopkins kept its unruflied way, perhaps hectic beneath the surface, but firm in its insistence that the mind and its cultivation were neither the playthings of the stock exchange nor the products of dollars and cents. Goodenow, Ames, Bowman-names which reflected the light of professional and academic competency and accomplishment rather than political aflluencyg names which meant, whatever varying traits might char- acterize their owners, that the proper pursuit of the university founded by Johns Hopkins was, should, and would be the things of the 111 . . . Tom gives the 'word . . . ffl 'gy