Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the University and Inauguration of Ira Remsen ...Johns Hopkins Press, 1902 - 182 pages |
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Page 18 - Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of so desirable an object as this is (in my estimation), my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure, than the establishment of a UNIVERSITY in a central part of the United States...
Page 10 - Let thy Fatherly hand, we beseech thee, ever be over them : Let thy HOLY SPIRIT ever be with them : and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word, that in the end they may obtain everlasting life...
Page 19 - ... knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned, and which, when carried to excess, are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country.
Page 18 - States, to which the youths of fortune and talents from all parts thereof may be sent for the completion of their education, in all the branches of polite literature, in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government...
Page 18 - wears yet a precious jewel in his head," — let us look forward to leaving our restricted site for a permanent home where our academic life will be " exempt from public haunt," where we shall "find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing." In faith and hope and gratitude, I have a vision of Homewood, where one person and another will build the structures of which we stand in so much need, — where scholarship will have its quiet retreat, where...
Page 99 - whose vision is so broad that it includes both North and South; a master of the principles which underlie a free government.
Page 82 - ... been one of extraordinary activity and remarkable development in the coal-tar industry, and before I pass to the economic aspect of the question I shall ask you to consider very superficially some of the main points in this advance. In no other industry than this have such extraordinarily rapid changes and gigantic developments taken place in so short a period, developments in which the scientific elucidation of abstract problems has gone hand in hand with inventive capacity, manufacturing skill,...
Page 103 - I want to testify that the Graduate School of Harvard University, started feebly in 1870 and 1871, did not thrive until the example of Johns Hopkins forced our faculty to put their strength into the development of our instruction for graduates.
Page 56 - Education in these United States. During this first period, the University idea has been introduced and established. Nor does the time within which this has taken place, date far back. There were no universities in this country before the war. There were, in fact, no large colleges. But, within thirty years, institutions have come into existence, possessing not only the name, but the character of universities; and old institutions have changed, not only their character, but their names. In other...
Page 103 - President Gilman, your first achievement here, with the help of your colleagues, your students, and your trustees, has been, to my thinking — and I have had good means of observation — the creation of a school of graduate studies, which not only has been in itself a strong and potent school, but which has lifted every other university in the country in its department of arts and sciences.