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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY
OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN MARYLAND ***

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor

History is past Politics and Politics present History—Freeman

NINTH SERIES
III-IV

The History of University
Education in Maryland

By BERNARD C. STEINER, A.M. (Yale)
Fellow in History
The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891)
By DANIEL C. GILMAN, LL.D.
President of the University
With Supplementary Notes on University Extension and the University of
the Future, by R.G. Moulton, A.M., Cambridge, England
BALTIMORE
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS
MARCH-APRIL, 1891

CONTENTS.
THE HISTORY OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN MARYLAND:
Colonial Attempts to found a College
The First University of Maryland
The Second University of Maryland
Cokesbury College
Asbury College
Other Extinct Colleges
Mount Hope College
The College of St. James
Newton University
Roman Catholic Colleges
St. Mary's Seminary
Mount St. Mary's College
St. Charles's College
Loyola College

Rock Hill College
Western Maryland College
Female Education
The Baltimore Female College
Woman's College of Baltimore
Conclusion

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (1876-1891):
Foundation
Preliminary Organization
Inaugural Assembly
Address of President Eliot
Inaugural Address of the First President
The Faculty
Distinction between Collegiate and University Courses
Students, Courses of Studies, and Degrees
Publications, Seminaries, Societies
Buildings, Libraries, and Collections
Statistics
Trustees

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
FUTURE.

THE HISTORY OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
IN MARYLAND.
BY BERNARD C. STEINER.

COLONIAL ATTEMPTS TO FOUND A COLLEGE.
The State of Maryland has been almost extravagantly liberal in bestowing
charters on colleges and professional schools. Over forty such charters have
been given by the legislature and, in many cases, the result has proved that
the gift of a charter was not warranted by the stability of the institution, to
which was thus granted the power of conferring degrees. In many other
cases, however, the institutions have grown and flourished, and have had an
honorable history.
Collegiate education in Maryland did not begin until after the Revolution.
In the colonial period there was no demand for it sufficient to warrant the
establishment of a seat of higher learning. For this state of things there were
several causes. The majority of the early settlers were planters and
frontiersmen, having little need for an extended education and desiring it
still less. Of the wealthier classes, some were like the fox-hunting English
gentry, caring for little else than sport; and others, who did desire the
advantages of a culture higher than that obtainable from a village
schoolmaster or a private tutor, found it elsewhere. They went over to
William and Mary's College in Virginia, across the ocean to England, or, in
case of some Catholics like Charles Carroll, to the institutions on the
continent of Europe.
But, though no college was established in colonial times, there was no lack
of plans and attempts for one. In 1671, while as yet Harvard was the only
American college, there was read and passed in the Upper House of the
Assembly "An Act for the founding and Erecting of a School or College
within this Province for the Education of Youth in Learning and Virtue."
The Lower House amended and passed the bill; but the plan seems never to

have progressed further. According to the bill the Lord Proprietor was "to
Set out his Declaration of what Privileges and Immunities shall be Enjoyed
by the Schollars;" and "the Tutors or School Masters" were to be of "the
reformed Church of England" or, if two in number, to be "the one for the
Catholick and other for the Protestants' Children."[1]
A second collegiate plan was brought before the legislature in 1732; but,
having passed the Upper House, was seemingly not acted on by the Lower.
This proposed college was intended to be placed at Annapolis and was to
offer instruction in "theology, law, medicine, and the higher branches of a
collegiate education." The governor of the colony was to be its chancellor
and provision was made for a faculty of five, under whom students were to
be instructed in everything from their alphabet upwards.[2]
A third unsuccessful attempt to secure the founding of a college was made
in 1761,[3] and a fourth in 1763, when contrary to the earlier course of
events, the rock, on which the project was shipwrecked, was found in the
Upper House. The college was to be placed at Annapolis, to occupy
Governor Bladen's mansion, and to have a faculty of seven masters, who
were to be provided with five servants. The expense was to be defrayed
from the colonial treasury, in case a tax to be levied on bachelors should
prove insufficient for the purpose.[4]
The failure of these projects did not dampen the zeal of the advocates of
higher education. In 1773 we find William Eddis, Surveyor of Customs at
Annapolis, writing that the Legislature of the Province had determined to fit
up Governor Bladen's mansion and "to endow and form a college for the
education of youth in every liberal and useful branch of science," which
college, "conducted under excellent regulations, will shortly preclude the
necessity of crossing the Atlantic for the completion of a classical and polite
education."[5] The gathering storm of war, however, drew men's attention
away from this project.

THE FIRST UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.

The Rev. Dr. William Smith,[6] head of what is now the University of
Pennsylvania, being out of employment on account of the revocation of that
college's charter, was called as pastor in Chestertown on the Eastern Shore
in 1780. To add to his income, he conceived the idea "of opening a school
for instruction in higher branches of education." As a nucleus for his school,
he took an old academy, the Kent County school, and, beginning the work
of teaching, was so successful, that in 1782 the Legislature, on his
application, granted the school a charter as Maryland's first college. To it
the name of Washington was given, "in honorable and perpetual memory of
His Excellency, General George Washington." Dr. Smith was so earnest and
zealous in the presentation of the claims of the college, that in five years he
had raised $14,000 from the people of the Eastern Shore. All seemed
propitious for the college. In 1783 the first class graduated and the first
degrees ever granted in Maryland were conferred, at the same time the
corner-stone of the college building was laid, and in 1784 General
Washington himself visited the college.
Dr. Smith prepared a three years' curriculum for the institution, equal to that
of any college of the day and similar to the one used at the University of
Pennsylvania. But the Western Shore could not endure that the educational
success of its rival section of the State should so far outstrip its own. In the
early days of the State, the sections were nearly equal in importance and the
prevailing dualism of the political system invaded the field of education.
In 1784, two years after the founding of Washington College, St. John's
College was chartered.[7] It was to be placed at Annapolis, and in it was
merged the old county Academy, "King William's School," founded some
eighty years before. By the same act, the two colleges were united in the
University of Maryland. This University was modeled on the English type:
the governor was to be its chancellor, and the governing body was to be the
"Convocation of the University of Maryland." The convocation was to be
composed of seven members of the Board of Visitors and Governors and
two of the faculty of each college; it was to establish ordinances for the
government of the colleges, to cause a uniformity in the "manners and
literature," to receive appeals from the students, and to confer "the higher
degrees and honors of the University." Its meetings were to be annual, and
to be held alternately at each college on its commencement day.

The provisions of the act were never carried out; two fruitless attempts were
made to hold sessions of Convocation in 1790 and 1791, and then nothing
was even attempted. So thoroughly was the project forgotten, that the
Legislature of 1805, in withdrawing the State appropriations from the two
colleges, did not even mention the University, and in 1812, though the old
charter had never been repealed, there was no hesitation in bestowing the
name of University of Maryland on a second institution.[8]
The two colleges which constituted this first University are still existing and
doing good work. The elder, Washington College, lost Dr. Smith in 1788 by
his return to Philadelphia and re-accession to his old position there. He was
succeeded by Rev. Colin Ferguson, a native of Kent county, and educated at
Edinburgh University. Under him the college continued to flourish, until the
withdrawal of the State's appropriation in 1805. The constitutionality of this
withdrawal is questionable, as the original grant was to be paid annually
"forever;" but the State refused to permit itself to be sued by the college
and, some years later, on increasing its appropriation to the college, the
legislature required a release of all claims on the State under the original
act.
By the act of 1805, the activity of the college was paralyzed and its
usefulness much impaired. It had not yet become strong enough to stand
alone and, when the helping hand of the State was taken away, it was
almost obliged to close its doors to students. Since that time the State has
renewed its grants to the college and has greatly aided it in performing its
functions; but from the disastrous effects of the act of 1805, the institution
has never fully recovered.
Indeed, from 1805 to 1816, nothing but a grammar school seems to have
been maintained in the college building. In the latter year, however, the
college was re-opened, since the legislature had granted it a lottery of
$30,000. A year later Rev. Dr. Francis Waters became "Principal," and under
his able leadership the college bid fair to regain its old position; but in 1827
a second great misfortune overtook it. On January 11, 1827, the college
building was discovered to be on fire, and, in spite of the most zealous
efforts, was entirely consumed. After this misfortune the college proper
seems to have been suspended a second time, and only a grammar school
maintained with one instructor. The classes were conducted in a building

intended originally for a rectory, until that was destroyed by fire in 1839,
when the school was again moved.
Richard W. Ringgold, the principal of the school from 1832 to 1854, seems
to have been a man of ability, and under him the number of students so
much increased that in 1843 it was resolved to rebuild the college on the old
site and to revive the college course. As a result, the present main building
was erected, the corner-stone laid with imposing ceremonies on May 4,
1844, and the college was reopened in its own edifice on January 1, 1845.
In 1849, a class of four was graduated, and in 1854, two additional
buildings were erected; one for the Principal's residence and the other for
dormitories and recitation rooms.
The college continued prosperous during the second administration of Rev.
Dr. Waters from 1854 to 1860; but in the presidency of his successor, Rev.
Andrew J. Sutton, came the Civil War, depriving the college of its Southern
constituency and distracting men's minds from learning. After the
Rebellion, an unfortunate selection of teachers and laxness of discipline
caused the college to lose still more ground, and Wm. J. Rivers, Principal
from 1873 to 1887, had much to do to build it up again. He was a faithful
and diligent teacher, and under him the moral tone of the college was
improved and the course of instruction enlarged. The present head, C.W.
Reid, Ph.D., is still further advancing the cause of the institution and a new
career of prosperity seems opening before Maryland's oldest college and the
only one on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
St. John's College, like its sister institution, founded on a non-
denominational basis, started out under even fairer auspices.[9] It was
granted, by the State, Governor Bladen's mansion and four acres of land
surrounding it, was made heir to the funds of King William's School, and
secured £9,000 from private beneficence in the first two years of its history.
The Bladen mansion, now known as McDowell Hall, was repaired and
enlarged and, on August 11, 1789, Bishop Carroll was elected president of
the Board of Visitors and Governors and Dr. John McDowell accepted the
Professorship of Mathematics. After unsuccessful attempts to obtain a
principal from England, Dr. McDowell was chosen to that position in the
following year and continued in office, until the State withdrew its aid to
the college in 1805. He was a man of great learning and was very successful

at St. John's and later at the University of Pennsylvania as provost. Under
him, St. John's flourished greatly and many men of a national reputation
were enrolled among its students, from the time the first class graduated in
1793.
The same disaster fell on St. John's, as on Washington College. The
Legislature withdrew the annual grant given by the State. The same doubt
as to the constitutionality of this withdrawal existed here, and the State
confirmed its position in the same way, by increasing its appropriation in
1832,[10] on condition of the college's accepting it in full satisfaction of all
claims against the State under the original charter. Of late years Maryland
has been quite generous to St. John's, but it has never quite recovered the
station and prestige it lost by the taking away of the State's grant in 1805.
In the first despair over the Act of the Legislature, the Visitors and
Governors voted to discontinue the college, but their courage soon returned
and the Rev. Bethel Judd, elected principal in 1807, was able to graduate a
class in 1810. After his withdrawal in 1812, matters were in a disturbed
state for some years and no classes were graduated until 1822, when Rev.
Henry L. Davis, the father of Maryland's famous orator, Henry Winter
Davis, was principal. After that year there were no graduates until 1827,
when Rev. William Rafferty was head of the college. The struggle for
existence was a hard one and the wonder is that the college succeeded as
well as it did.
With 1831, however, began a third and more successful period in the history
of St. John's. In that year the Rev. Hector Humphreys, then only thirty-four
years of age, was chosen president. He was a native of Connecticut and a
graduate of Yale College in 1818, and was called to St. John's from the
professorship of Ancient Languages at Washington (Trinity) College in his
native State. The effect of his energy and devotion was soon recognized,
and, largely through his efforts, was passed the compromise of 1832. The
curriculum was enlarged, the instruction made more thorough, and classes
were yearly graduated, with but six exceptions, until his death in 1857. His
energy was very great, his learning wide and accurate. In 1834, after
travelling about the State in the interests of the college, he succeeded in
raising about $11,000, which were used in the erection of a second building
for the college, which most appropriately has since been called by his name.

During his administration, the professors' houses were also built, as was
Pinkney Hall, a third building for the use of the college. Dr. Humphreys
also secured cabinets and philosophical apparatus for the college and gave
instruction in Political Economy, Latin and Greek, Chemistry, Geology,
Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Composition, Elocution, Evidences of
Christianity, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Logic. Verily,
an encyclopaedic man of vast industry! Only four years after Dr.
Humphreys' death the War of the Rebellion broke out, and St. John's, unlike
the temple of Janus, closed its doors at the rumors of war. The buildings
were used as an hospital, and not until 1866 was the college again reopened
with the well-known educator, Henry Barnard, at its head. In less than a
year he resigned to become the first United States Commissioner of
Education, and neither he nor his successor, Dr. James C. Welling, who was
principal until 1870, was able to graduate a class. Since the beginning of the
administration of the next principal, James M. Garnett, LL. D., the
succession of classes has been unbroken and the college has steadily
advanced in reputation and usefulness. Dr. Garnett made the English
department especially excellent and, after ten years faithful service,
resigned in 1880. The Rev. J.D. Leavitt, his successor, made a departure
from the old classic curriculum and organized a department of Mechanical
Engineering. After he resigned Prof. W.H. Hopkins acted as principal for a
time and introduced military discipline, having secured the detail of an
officer from the United States Army as instructor in Military Tactics.
St. John's celebrated its centennial in 1889, and has begun its second
century with excellent prospects. The four years' administration of its
present principal, Thomas Fell, LL. D., has been a most successful one, and
St. John's is fulfilling the purpose of its founders "to train up and perpetuate
a succession of able and honest men, for discharging the various offices and
duties of life, both civil and religious, with usefulness and reputation."

THE SECOND UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
Most universities have developed from a college; the University of
Maryland differs from them, for it originated in a medical school.[11]

In 1802 Dr. John B. Davidge of Baltimore began a private class in Medicine
and was so successful in it, that, in 1807, he associated with himself Drs.
James Cocke and John Shaw and these three obtained from the Legislature
a charter for the school, under the name of "the College of Medicine of
Maryland."[12] There was made a close connection between the College of
Medicine and the State "Medical and Chirurgical Faculty," and its board of
medical examiners were made ex-officio members of the Board of Trustees
of the College. The Legislature also granted the college a lottery of
$40,000.[13]
Lectures, which had been carried on at the professors' houses, were begun
in 1808, at a building on the corner of Fayette (Chatham) street and
McClellan's alley, and the first class, consisting of five, received its degrees
in 1810. As the school grew and nourished, the ideas of its founders become
more extensive and, in 1812, a long act was passed,[14] authorizing "the
college for the promotion of medical knowledge" "to constitute, appoint,
and annex to itself the other three colleges or faculties, viz.: The Faculty of
Divinity, the Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences; and
that the four faculties or colleges thus united, shall be and they are hereby
constituted an university, by the name and under the title of the University
of Maryland." The connection with the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty
was severed and the members of the four faculties, under the name of the
Regents of the University of Maryland, were to have full powers over the
University and be permitted to hold property not exceeding $100,000 in
yearly value.
Each faculty was allowed to appoint its own professors and lecturers, to
choose a dean, and to exercise such powers as the regents shall delegate.
The Faculty of Physic was to be composed of the professors in the Medical
College; that of Theology, of the professor of Theology and any "six
ordained ministers of any religious society or denomination;" that of Law,
of the professor of Law, "together with six qualified members of the bar;"
that of the Arts and Sciences, of the professors in that department, "together
with three of the principals of any three academies or Colleges of the State."
Such a strangely formed and loosely united body could not succeed, as a
more homogeneous and closely compacted one would have done.

The university was founded "on the most liberal plan, for the benefit of
students of every country and every religious denomination, who shall be
freely admitted to equal privileges and advantages of education, and to all
the honors of the university, according to their merit, without requiring or
enforcing any religious or civil test, urging their attendance upon any
particular plan of religious worship or service." With these broad powers
and provisions,[15] "the Faculty of Phisick, late of the College of Medicine
of Maryland, *** convened and, by the authority vested in it by said charter
and with the advice and recommendations of learned men of the several
professions of Divinity, Law, and the Arts and Sciences, proceeded to annex
to itself the other three faculties." On April 22, 1813, the Hon. Robert
Smith, formerly United States Secretary of State, was chosen the first
provost, and the organization of the regents was completed.[16] A lottery of
$30,000 was granted the University in 1814, and another of $100,000 in
1817.[17] From the proceeds of these lotteries and other sources was built
the building of the medical department on the corner of Lombard and
Greene streets. It was modelled on the Pantheon at Rome, and, when built,
is said to have been without an equal in America. The medical school grew
extremely fast; a loan of $30,000 from the State in 1822[18] enabled it to
build a practice hall and purchase a fine collection for its museum, and the
University hospital across the street was opened in 1823. In 1824 the
number of students in attendance on lectures amounted to 320. The other
faculties took no active steps for some time and, not until 1819, did the
regents urge them to proceed to deliver lectures as soon as possible and to
lay before the regents annually a report as to their progress and condition.
In 1823, possibly on account of this vote. Prof. David Hoffman began the
instruction in the Faculty of Law, his school being known as the "Maryland
Law Institute." He published part of his lecture notes in a book called Legal
Outlines and continued lecturing about ten years. After his withdrawal, the
law school was given up; but the organization of the faculty was still
maintained.
The Faculty of Theology reported in 1852 "no active organization of the
faculty has ever been attempted and, in view of the character of the
department contemplated by the charter, none seems desirable." Its only
activity was a course or two of lectures on the Evidences of Christianity,
delivered before the medical students about 1823 by the Rev. William E.

Wyatt, Professor of Theology. A nominal organization of the faculty was
kept up, however, until 1878.
The prosperity of the medical department was destroyed by the effort of
some of its professors, discontented with being prohibited from having
private classes, to have the Legislature do away with the regents and replace
them with a board of trustees, in whom should vest the property. As early as
November 12, 1824, the Regents feared trouble and obtained from William
Wirt, John Purviance and Daniel Webster, a legal opinion that their position
was inexpugnable. With this conclusion the Legislature did not agree, and
on March 6, 1862, an act was passed abolishing the Regents and appointing
a Board of twenty-one Trustees in their place.[19]
The Trustees, by decree of the courts, obtained control of the property and
forced the professors to accept them as the legal authority. So matters went
on for twelve years, until in 1837, the trustees appointed a professor
personally objectionable to some of the others, who resigned their positions
under the Trustees and opened a separate medical school in the Indian
Queen Hotel at the corner of Baltimore and Hanover Streets. Few out-of-
town students attended either school, for the quarrel frightened them away,
and the Baltimore students largely attended the Regents' school. Feeling ran
high at one time, the Regents took possession of the University buildings by
force, and bloodshed was feared.
The Board of Regents reorganized with Ashton Alexander, M.D., as
Provost, and employed distinguished counsel to plead the case for them in
the courts. The Legislature authorized the Court of Appeals to try the suit,
and Maryland's Dartmouth College Case was decided in June, 1838,
entirely in favor of the Regents. The court held that the act of 1825 was
void, since it was "a judicial act, a sentence that condemned without a
hearing. The Legislature has no right, without the assent of a Corporation,
to alter its charter, or take from it any of its franchises or property." The
Trustees would not yield at once and, in March, 1839, presented a petition
to the Legislature, praying it not to pass an act requiring them to give up the
property to the Regents. The memorial was referred to a joint committee,
which reported a bill restoring the property to the Regents. The bill was
enacted and the Regents have since ruled. During the supremacy of the
Trustees, the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences was organized. They

contemplated activity in 1821, and issued a circular, which drew down on
them the wrath of Professor Hoffman, inasmuch as they "contemplated
'academic' instruction" not intended by the charter. The founders, he said,
intended that instruction should be conveyed by lectures and that no other
form of instruction should be allowed. The discussion which followed
seems to show that he had the idea of having work carried on, like that done
by graduate students to-day.
But nothing was done, apparently, until Baltimore College was annexed in
1830. That institution was chartered on January 7, 1804,[20] and was the
development of an academy kept by James Priestley, the first president, on
Paul's Lane (St. Paul Street). "It was hoped that it would, together with the
other valuable seminaries of education in the same city and in the State,
become adequate to the wants and wishes of our citizens," and from the
proceeds of a lottery, the grant of which was an easy way for a State to be
benevolent, a plain but convenient building was erected on Mulberry street.
[21]

It is very doubtful if it ever graduated any students, and we learn in 1830
that "the celebrity and, in some cases, the superior existing advantages of
other institutions have prevented the accomplishment of this object." Still a
school had been kept up continuously, and from time to time, we catch
glimpses of its lectures, &c. In January, 1830, a joint petition of the Trustees
of the University of Maryland and of Baltimore College to the Legislature
"proposed the charter of Baltimore College shall be surrendered to the
State, on the condition that the property belonging to the college shall be
invested in the trustees of the University of Maryland." The petition was
granted,[22] and in 1832, we learn that "the Baltimore College *** has now
been merged in the University of Maryland and constitutes the chair of
Ancient Languages."[23]
On October 1, 1830, the Trustees issued a prospectus, from which we learn
that it was intended "to maintain an institution on the most enlarged scale of
usefulness and responsibility," and that there was a "necessity for the
proposed organization of a department in the University of Maryland,
exclusively collegiate in its system, requiring an advanced state of classical
and scientific attainments for admission to its lectures, calculated to conduct
its pupils through the highest branches of a liberal education and to afford

them advantages similar to what may be obtained in the distant Universities
of this country and Europe." A course of study equal to that of any college
of the country was announced, and a brilliant Faculty appointed; but the
time was not yet come for a great college in Baltimore and the institution
languished away. In 1843, the Commissioners of Public Schools petitioned
to have it transferred to the city as a High School, and in 1852, it had only
one teacher and 36 scholars, a mere boys' school.
In 1854 it was reorganized as the "School of Letters under the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences," with Rev. E.A. Dalrymple, formerly of the Episcopal
Theological Seminary at Alexandria, as its head. On paper the course was
fairly complete, and the Faculty an able one, and there were graduates in
1859, '60, '61, and '63. The course was to be a three years' one; for "the
studies of Freshman year will be pursued in the preparatory department,
where experience has shown they may be attended with greater advantage."
Gradually students fell off, it became a mere boys' school, and finally Dr.
Dalrymple was all that was left of the "School of Letters" and the "Faculty
of the Arts and Sciences," and at his death, both formally became extinct.
With the restoration of the property to the Regents, the classes in the
medical school increased to a size somewhat like that attained in years
previous to 1825, although, owing to the opening of new schools, they
never quite equalled it. During the war of the Rebellion, the school suffered
from the loss of southern patronage; but at its close, students came back and
the school took on fresh life. It has always been in the front rank; first of all
American medical schools it recognized Gynecology as a separate branch
of instruction, and it was second in making practical Anatomy a compulsory
study. With the session of 1891 it will require a three years' graded course
of all candidates for degrees.
In 1850 the Hon. John P. Kennedy, statesman and author, was chosen
provost, and on his death in 1870, the Hon. S. Teackle Wallis was made his
successor and he now fills the office with honor.
The Faculty of Law revived the Law School in the beginning of 1870, with
a class of 25. An efficient faculty has caused a steady increase, until, in
1890, there were 101 students in the three years' course. The instruction is
given by lectures, examinations, and moot-courts. In 1884, the Law

Department moved from its former quarters in the old Baltimore College
building on Mulberry Street, to a new building erected for it on the
University property on Lombard Street, next to the building of the Medical
Department.
In 1882, the University of Maryland obtained from the Legislature authority
to open a Dental Department.[24] In 1837, the first Dental Lectures in
America had been delivered before the Medical Students of the University,
and it was quite fitting that there should be a dental school connected with
it. The first class numbered 60, the last 132, and in eight years there have
been 250 graduates. This fact and the further one that twice has it been
found necessary to make large additions to the buildings of the department
on Green Street, adjoining those of the Medical School, will show how
rapid has been its growth.
The University has, at present, flourishing departments of Medicine, Law,
and Dentistry, and worthily maintains the reputation of thorough and careful
training, which it has gained in its history of eighty years.

COKESBURY COLLEGE.
In Maryland was the first Methodist Church in America, and it was natural
that here too should be the first Methodist College in the world. There was
no permanent organization of this denomination in the United States, until
John Wesley, on the petition of the American churches, consecrated Rev.
Thomas Coke, Superintendent for the United States, in 1784. Dr. Coke
sailed directly from England, and arrived in New York on November 3,
1784. He thence traveled southward and, on the 15th of the same month,
met Francis Asbury at Dover, Delaware. At this first meeting, Coke
suggested the founding of an institution for higher education, to be under
the patronage of the Methodist Church.[25] This was not a new idea to
Asbury; for, four years previous to this meeting, John Dickins had made the
same suggestion to him. The earlier idea had contemplated only a school,
on the plan of Wesley's at Knightwood, England, and for that purpose, a
subscription had been opened in North Carolina in 1781.[26]

Coke's suggestion, to have a college, was favorably received and, at the
famous Christmas Conference at Baltimore in 1784, the Church was
formally organized, with Coke and Asbury as Bishops, and the first
Methodist College was founded. Thus the denomination which has
increased to be the largest in the United States, recognized the paramount
importance of education at its very foundation.[27] To the new institution,
the name of Cokesbury was given, in honor of the two Bishops, from whose
names the title was compounded. For this College, collections were yearly
taken, amounting in 1786 to £800 and implying great self-denial by the
struggling churches ill-supplied with wealth.[28]
As early as January 3, 1785, only two weeks after the College was decided
on, its managers were able to report that £1,057 had been subscribed, a sum
that put the enterprise on a firm footing. The site was next to be chosen, and
Abingdon in Harford County was pitched upon. Of the 15,000 Methodists
in the Union in 1784, over one-third were in Maryland, and hence, it had
the best claim for the College, and the beauty of the situation of Abingdon
charmed Coke so much that he determined upon placing the College there.
It was also a place easy of access, being on the direct stage line from
Baltimore to Philadelphia and near the Chesapeake Bay. Bishop Coke, the
most zealous advocate of the College, contracted for the building materials;
but was prevented from being present at the laying of the corner-stone.
Bishop Asbury, however, was present and preached a sermon on Psalms 78,
verses 4 to 8.[29] In this sermon, "he dwelt on the importance of a
thoroughly religious education, and looked forward to the effects, which
would result to the generality, to come from the streams which should
spring from this opening fountain of sanctified learning." The building was
built of brick, one hundred feet in length and forty in width, faced east and
west, and stood on "the summit and centre of six acres of land, with an
equal proportion of ground on each side." It was said to be in architecture
"fully equal, if not superior, to anything of the kind in the country."
Dormitory accommodations were provided in the building; but it was
intended that "as many of the students as possible, shall be lodged and
boarded in the town of Abingdon among our pious friends,"[30] Gardening,
working in wood in a building called the "Taberna Lignaria," bathing under
supervision of a master, walking, and riding were the only outdoor exercises
permitted. The students were prohibited "from indulging in anything which

the world calls play. Let this rule be observed with the strictest nicety; for
those who play when they are young, will play when they are old."
In 1785 the Bishops issued a "Plan for Erecting a College intended to
advance Religion in America." It is quite long and many of its provisions
are very quaint. From it we learn that Cokesbury is intended "to receive for
education and board the sons of the elders and preachers of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, poor orphans, and the sons of the subscribers and other
friends. It will be expected that all our friends, who send their children to
the college, will, if they be able, pay a moderate sum for their education and
board; the others will be taught and boarded and, if our finances allow it,
clothed gratis. The institution is also intended for the benefit of our young
men, who are called to preach, that they may receive a measure of that
improvement, which is highly expedient as a preparation for public
service." Teachers of ancient languages and of English will be provided,
and no necessary branch of literature shall be omitted. "Above all, especial
care shall be taken that due attention be paid to the religion and morals of
the children, and to the exclusion of all such as continue of an ungovernable
temper." "The expense of such an undertaking will be very large, and the
best means we could think of, at our late conference, to accomplish our
design, was to desire the assistance of all those in every place who wish
well to the cause of God. The students will be instructed in English, Latin,
Greek, logic, rhetoric, history, geography, natural philosophy, and
astronomy. To these languages and sciences shall be added, when the
finances of our college will admit of it, the Hebrew, French, and German
languages. But our first object shall be, to answer the designs of Christian
education, by forming the minds of the youth, through divine aid, to
wisdom and holiness by instilling into their minds the principles of true
religion—speculative, experimental, and practical—and training them in the
ancient way, that they may be rational, spiritual Christians. We have
consented to receive children of seven years of age, as we wish to have the
opportunity of teaching 'the young idea how to shoot' and gradually forming
their minds, through the divine blessing, almost from their infancy, to
holiness and heavenly wisdom, as well as human learning. We shall rigidly
insist on their rising early in the morning (five a.m.), and we are convinced
by constant observation and experience, that it is of vast importance, both to
body and mind.

"We prohibit play in the strongest terms, and in this we have the two
greatest writers on the subject that, perhaps, any age has produced (Mr.
Locke and Mr. Rousseau) of our sentiments; for, though the latter was
essentially mistaken in his religious system, yet his wisdom in other
respects and extensive genius are indisputably acknowledged. The
employments, therefore, which we have chosen for the recreation of the
students are such as are of greatest public utility:—agriculture and
architecture.
"In conformity to this sentiment, one of the completest poetic pieces of
antiquity (the Georgics of Virgil) is written on the subject of husbandry; by
the perusal of which and submission to the above regulations, the students
may delightfully unite the theory and practice together."
There is something extremely ludicrous in the idea of making the average
student delight in spending his leisure hours in farming, by means of a
study of the Georgics in the original. But we can hardly laugh at these men,
they were too much in earnest. To return to the circular, "The four guineas a
year for tuition, we are persuaded cannot be lowered, if we give the students
that finished education, which we are determined they shall have. And,
though our principal object is to instruct them in the doctrines, spirit, and
practice of Christianity, yet we trust that our college will, in due time, send
forth men that will be a blessing to their country in every laudable office
and employment of life, thereby uniting the two greatest ornaments of
human beings which are too often separated: deep learning and genuine
piety."
As soon as the building was under roof, a preparatory school was opened
and the Trustees applied to John Wesley for a President. He suggested a
Rev. Mr. Heath, and this suggestion was accepted on December 23, 1786.
[31] His inauguration occurred a year later and was a grand affair. Asbury

presided on each of the three days of the ceremony, and his text on the
second day, "O man of God, there is death in the pot,"[32] was looked on by
the superstitious, in time to come, as a presage of disaster. The faculty was
filled up and all seemed to bid fair for prosperity; but Mr. Heath remained
in charge of the College less than a year, resigning because of certain
charges of insufficiency, which seem rather trival. Another professor left to
go into business and Asbury's soul was tried by these "heavy tidings."

The good Bishop was indefatigable in his care of Cokesbury. His visits
were frequent, and while there, he was very active, examining the pupils,
preaching, and arranging the affairs, both temporal and spiritual. Abingdon
became a centre of Methodism, families moved there to enjoy the
educational advantages, and the Conference regularly visited the College,
coming over from Baltimore for that purpose.
Dr. Jacob Hall, of Abingdon, was the second President, and had under him a
faculty of three professors and a chaplain. The school prospered and had
public exhibitions of its students' proficiency from time to time. It is
doubtful if sufficient care was exercised in the expenditure of money and, in
December, 1790, the Trustees felt obliged to contract a loan of £1000. The
charitable contributions fell off, and Asbury was forced to go from house to
house in Baltimore, "through the snow and cold, begging money for the
support of the poor orphans at Cokesbury."[33] The instruction was good,
and Asbury could write to Coke, then in England, that "one promising
young man has gone forth into the ministry, another is ready, and several
have been under awakenings. None so healthy and orderly as our children,
and some promise great talents for learning."[34] Still, "all was not well
there," and on October 2, 1793, he "found matters in a poor state at college;
£500 in debt, and our employes £700 in arrears." A year later, matters were
desperate and the good Bishop wrote that "we now make a sudden and dead
pause—we mean to incorporate and breathe and take some better plan. If
we can not have a Christian school (i.e. a school under Christian discipline
and pious teachers), we will have none."[35] The project of incorporation
was not favored by some, who feared that the College would not be thereby
so directly under the control of the Conference, but was carried through,
and the charter bears date, December 26, 1794.[36] By it, the institution was
allowed to have an income not exceeding £3,000.
How a charter was to avoid increased indebtedness does not appear and the
College's debt had so increased, that the Conference in 1795 decided to
suspend the Collegiate Department and have only an English Free School
kept in the buildings.[37]
Misfortunes never come singly: an unsuccessful attempt to burn the
buildings had been made in the fall of 1788, and now, on December 4,
1795, a completely successful one was made, and the building and its

contents were consumed. Rewards to discover the incendiary were offered
in vain, and Asbury writes:[38] "We have a second and confirmed report that
Cokesbury College is consumed to ashes—a sacrifice of £10,000 in about
ten years. If any man should give me £10,000 to do and suffer again what I
have done for that house, I would not do it. The Lord called not Mr.
Whitefield, nor the Methodists to build colleges. I wished only for schools;
Dr. Coke wanted a college. I feel distressed at the loss of the library."
Asbury despaired, but Coke did not and, going to work, he raised £1,020
from his friends. After the determination was made to move the College to
Baltimore, the Church there gave £700, and a house to house solicitation
brought in £600 more. A building originally erected for balls and assemblies
was purchased and fitted up. It stood next the old Light Street Methodist
Church and a co-educational school was opened therein on May 2, 1796.
The high course planned for girls is especially noticeable at this early
period. The school opened with promises of success, and within a month
there were nearly 200 scholars.
Fatality pursued the enterprise, however, and a year to a day from the
burning of the first building, this second one was reduced to ashes, with the
adjoining church and several houses.

Asbury writes rather philosophically:[39] "I conclude God loveth the people
of Baltimore, and he will keep them poor to make them pure;" but even
Coke gave up hope at this new disaster, and it was twenty years before a
second Methodist College was attempted.
ASBURY COLLEGE.
This was the second Methodist College in the world, and was organized in
1816, the year of Bishop Asbury's death. After a year or two of successful
work, a charter was applied for and it was granted to the College February
10, 1818.[40] The President, Samuel K. Jennings, M.D., a Methodist local
preacher, was a rather remarkable man. Coming from New Jersey,
graduating at Rutgers, and settling in the practice of the medical profession
in Virginia, he was converted by the preaching of Asbury, and was
persuaded by him some years later, to move to Baltimore and take the
leadership of the new enterprise.[41] He was said to be, at one time, the only

Methodist preacher with a collegiate education and was well adapted to the
task, from his administrative ability and wide learning. Around him, he
gathered an undenominational faculty of four professors and began the life
of the institution in a large brick building on the corner of Park Avenue and
Franklin Street. In March, 1818, the Methodist Magazine tells us that there
were one hundred and seventy students, and that "The Asbury College has
probably exceeded in its progress, considering the short time it has been
established, any literary institution in the country."[42] In that spring, a class
was graduated, and yet only a few months later Dr. Bangs wrote that the
College "continued for a short time and then, greatly to the disappointment
and mortification of its friends, went down as suddenly as it had come up,
and Asbury College lives only in the recollection of those who rejoiced over
its rise and mourned over its fall."
This statement is not absolutely correct; it is probable that there was some
catastrophe, and possibly Dr. Jennings then began to break away from the
Methodist Episcopal Church, which he left entirely, when the Methodist
Protestant Church was formed in 1828. Still some sort of an organization
was kept up under the old name; for does not good Hezekiah Niles, of
Register fame, tell us of examinations and exhibitions he witnessed in the
early spring of 1819,[43] at which time prodigies of learning and cramming
were exhibited, and do we not find in 1824, a pamphlet published by Dr.
Jennings, entitled "Remarks on the Subject of Education, to which are
added the general rules of the school under the appellation of Asbury
College." Apparently the College had passed entirely out of the control of
the church, and having lowered its grade, was now little more than Dr.
Jennings' private school. The school was then situated on the corner of
Charles and Baltimore Streets and, in 1833, when we catch the last glimpse
of it, another removal had taken it to the corner of South and Fayette
Streets. It was then merely a boys' day school and doubtless soon perished.
So the second Methodist College failed as the first had done and another
was added to the many abortive attempts to found a college in Maryland.

OTHER EXTINCT COLLEGES.
Three other attempts to found colleges demand a passing notice.

Mount Hope College stood at the corner of Eutaw Place and North Avenue,
and was charted as a college in 1833.[44] The building was constructed by
the Baltimore branch of the United States Bank in 1800, during an epidemic
of yellow fever in the city. People feared to come into town to transact
business and so a suburban banking house was built. This building was
bought by the Rev. Frederick Hall in 1828 and in it a school was begun,
which was later expanded into the College. The institution lasted some ten
years and is worthy of note from the fact that among the teachers were two
young Yale graduates, who afterwards obtained considerable renown:
Professor Elias Loomis and Rev. S.W.S. Dutton.
The College of St. James was situated in Washington County and was
originally intended by its founder, Bishop Whittingham, as a preparatory
school. It was opened in October, 1842, with Rev. J.B. Kerfoot,[45]
afterwards Bishop of Pittsburg, as Principal, and had such speedy and
encouraging success, that it was chartered as a college in 1843, under the
control of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The College prospered greatly under Bishop Kerfoot's able management,
and was kept up during the War of the Rebellion in spite of the loss of
Southern students, a large portion of the entire number. In 1864, however,
General Early, of the Confederate Army, invaded Maryland and took Dr.
Kerfoot and Professor Coit prisoners, and the College thus forcibly
discontinued, was never again reorganized.

Newton University was chartered by the Legislature[46] on March 8, 1845
and was situated on Lexington Street, between North and Calvert. It was
originally intended to combine the Baltimore preparatory schools and to
furnish boys, graduating from them, the means of completing their
education without leaving the city. There was an enormous list of Trustees
and the unwieldy character of the board, coupled with the irregular habits of
the President, made the failure of the enterprise inevitable. Still it offered in
its catalogues a good course of study and gave exhibitions, at which
polyglot orations were delivered. The late Prof. Perley R. Lovejoy was the
life of the institution and, after several classes had graduated, the University
finally ceased to be, when Mr. Lovejoy accepted a position as Professor in
the Baltimore City College.

ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGES.
Maryland has been the cradle of the Roman Catholic Church in America, as
well as of the Methodist and the Presbyterian. The centenary of the
consecration of John Carroll, as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the
United States, occurred little more than a year ago. A few months after
Bishop Carroll's consecration, he received from the Superior of the Order of
St. Sulpice an offer to found a seminary in Baltimore for the education of
priests. This offer was accepted and, on July 10, 1791, four Sulpician priests
arrived in Baltimore. They soon bought a house known as "One Mile
Tavern" with four acres of land and there they opened St. Mary's Seminary,
on the first Sunday in October, 1791. The Seminary still occupies the same
site, at the corner of Paca and St. Mary's Streets. The number of the
candidates for the priesthood, who entered the Seminary, was disappointing
from its smallness and, in order to procure clerics, an Academy was opened
in the rooms of the Seminary, on August 20, 1799. This was presided over
by Rev. Wm. Du Bourg, and proved so successful, as to demand a separate
building. Accordingly, the corner-stone of St. Mary's College was laid on
April 10, 1800. At Bishop Carroll's request, no American boys were
admitted for a time and only Spaniards and French were received. In 1803,
however, the College was opened to all day scholars or boarders, without
reference to birth or religion. This step roused some opposition and many
communications upon the subject appeared in the newspapers, which were
afterwards collected in pamphlet form.
The students soon became numerous and the institution grew to such an
extent that, in January, 1805, it was chartered as St. Mary's University. On
August 13, 1806, the first class was graduated; in that year there were 106
students. New buildings were erected and a superb botanical garden was
laid out. The chapel, built soon after the incorporation, was said to be the
most beautiful in the United States.
The Rev. William Du Bourg, the President, was a man of great ability and
the reputation of the College rapidly spread. Many prominent men, Roman
Catholics and Protestants, were graduated from St. Mary's; but the
Sulpicians felt that their vocation was to educate young men exclusively for

the priesthood, and not for secular life, and they finally closed St. Mary's
College in 1852, in order to devote all their energies to the Theological
Seminary, which has continued its prosperous career to this present day.[47]
A second Roman Catholic College was formed by the Sulpicians in 1807 at
Emmittsburg, Frederick County. It was begun by Rev. John Dubois and was
soon chartered as Mount Saint Mary's College. The exercises were first
held in a log house with a handful of pupils, who increased to 80 within five
years. With the growth of the institution came the demand for larger
accommodations. Better buildings were erected and a large stone edifice
was undertaken in 1823. When nearly ready for occupancy, it was destroyed
by fire; but Father Dubois did not despair and, aided by the people of the
vicinity, at once began a new building. In 1826 he was appointed Bishop of
New York, and in the same year, the connection of the College with the
Sulpician order was terminated. Although originally intended chiefly as a
place for the education of clerics, Mt. St. Mary's has ever kept in view the
preparation of students for a secular life, and many of its graduates have
been distinguished in State, as well as in Church. In 1838, Rev. John
McCaffrey, D.D., became president, and under his able control, the College
prospered until 1871. During this period, the jubilee of the institution was
celebrated with great ceremony in 1858. The Civil War injured the College
greatly and the declaration of peace found it burdened with a heavy load of
debt. For twenty years the struggle went on and it was doubtful all the time,
whether the College could survive. Finally Dr. William Bryne, at his
leaving the presidency in 1884, was able to report that the institution was
placed on a firm financial basis as to the future, and that the debt had been
reduced to $65,000. The present President, Rev. Edward P. Allen, has still
further diminished the debt by more than half and the attendance has been
largely increased through his efficient administration.
A third Roman Catholic College is St. Charles's, situated in Howard
County, near Ellicott City. It is situated on land given by Charles Carroll of
Carroll ton, and was chartered on February 3, 1830,[48] its name being taken
from that of its founder and of the great Archbishop of Milan.[49] The
institution was placed under the control of the Society of St. Sulpice and
was established "exclusively for the education of pious young men of the
Catholic persuasion for the ministry of the Gospel." The corner-stone was

laid by the venerable Charles Carroll, on July 11, 1831; but, for want of
funds to carry on the work successfully, the institution was not opened until
the fall of 1848. The first President, Rev. O.L. Jenkins, began the institution
with four pupils, and at his death in 1869, the number had grown to 140.
Since the closing of St. Mary's College in 1852, St. Charles's has been used
by the Sulpicians as preparatory to St. Mary's Seminary.
To supply the want of a college, to which Baltimore boys of Roman
Catholic families could go without leaving home, Loyola College was
opened in September, 1852. It is under the control of the Jesuits and has
confined itself to receiving day scholars.
The fifth and last Roman Catholic College, Rock Hill, was chartered in
1865.[50] It is situated near Ellicott City, as is St. Charles's, and is under the
supervision of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. It prepares youth for
the various duties and occupations of life with great thoroughness, and has
ever been noted especially for the attention paid to the development of the
body as well as the mind of its pupils.

WESTEEN MARYLAND COLLEGE.
In 1865, Mr. Fayette R. Buell began an academy for boys and girls at
Westminster, Carroll County,[51] and, in the spring of 1866, he proposed to
the Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, of which he was a
member, that the school should be chartered as a college and taken under
the Church's patronage. This proposition was not acceded to, but Mr. Buell
went on with his plan. Confidence in the Rev. J.T. Ward, one of the teachers
in Mr. Buell's school, induced two of his friends to lend the enterprise
$10,000, and the corner-stone of the College building was laid on
September 6, 1886. The College opened a year later with seventy-three
pupils. In February, 1868, Mr. Buell found himself so much in debt, that he
appealed to the Conference to take the property off his hands. This was
done, and a Board of Trustees appointed by the Conference was
incorporated by the legislature on March 30, 1868.
The next fall, the institution reopened with Rev. J.T. Ward as President, in
which office he continued for seventeen years. These were years of trouble

and severe work to make the College a success. There was no endowment,
and only by the most strenuous efforts was the College saved on several
occasions from being overwhelmed with debt. Still, in spite of all
disadvantages, good work was done and valuable experience was gained.
The College has been a co-educational one from the first, and connected
with it was a department of Biblical Literature, for such as intended to
become clergymen, until a separate Theological School was opened in
1882. During Dr. Ward's administration, new buildings were erected and, at
his resignation in 1886, he left the institution ready to be made still more
efficient by his successor. Rev. Thomas H. Lewis succeeded as President
and, while he has caused the work and equipment of the College to be
further enlarged, he has also been successful in paying off the last dollar of
the debt that had hung over it so long as an incubus.

FEMALE EDUCATION.
The Baltimore Female College, so long presided over by Dr. N.C. Brooks,
was the pioneer institution in Maryland for the higher education of women.
Founded in 1849, it long had a prosperous existence; but finally was
obliged to close its doors in June, 1890, on account of the withdrawal of the
grant formerly given by the State.
Besides this institution there was no successful attempt in Maryland to
found a college for female education, until the Woman's College of
Baltimore was chartered in 1884.[52] It was founded by the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in honor of the centenary of its organized existence in
this country, and is "denominational but not sectarian." For it beautiful
buildings, adjoining the First Methodist Church, have been erected on St.
Paul Street. Much of the money for its endowment was given by the present
President, the Rev. J.F. Goucher, D.D., and, largely through his influence,
was it able to open its doors to students on September 13, 1888. It has
determined, very sensibly, to grant no degrees, save to those thoroughly
fitted to receive them, and so has had no graduates up to the present. Its
growth under the care of W.H. Hopkins, Ph.D., its first President, was great
in numbers and endowment and the prospects are now fair for this
Baltimore Woman's College taking high rank among similar institutions.

CONCLUSION.
To a superficial observer from a distance, it sometimes seems as if
University education in Maryland began with the foundation of the Johns
Hopkins University, a sketch of which follows from the pen of its honored
President. Our study into the history of education in the State, however, has
shown us that Maryland, instead of being one of the latest of the United
States to conceive the University idea, was, in fact, one of the very earliest,
and that her institutions have a history of which they need not be ashamed;
though their work has not been so widely known as some others and though
the bright promise of morning, in many cases, has not been followed by the
full development of noontide.
The patient labors of William Smith, of Hector Humphreys, of Francis
Asbury, of John Dubois, and of many others, have been far from lost.
Wherein they failed, they gained valuable experience for their successors,
and wherein they succeeded, they helped to instil "into the minds and hearts
of the citizens, the principles of science and good morals."

FOOTNOTES:
[1]
Md. Archives; Assembly Proceedings, 1666-1676, pp. 262-264.

[2]
Scharf, Hist. of Md., II, p. 510.

[3]
Sharpe, Correspondence, Vol. II, pp. 523-5 and 545.

[4]
Scharf, Hist, of Md., II, p.511.

[5]
Eddis, Letters from Maryland, 1769-1776.

[6]
MS. sketch of Prof. Rowland Watts.

[7]
Act of 1784, ch. 37.

[8]
Act of 1805, ch. 85. The appropriation had already been
diminished by Act of 1798, ch. 107.

[9]
Centennial of St. John's. Address of P.R. Voorhees, Esq.

[10]
Resolutions of 1832, No. 41.

[11]
MS. Sketch of Dr. E.F. Cordell.

[12]
Act of 1807, ch. 53.

[13]
Act of 1807, ch. 111.

[14]
Act of 1812, ch. 159.

[15]

Records of Univ. of Md., Vol. A.

[16]
In 1815 he was succeeded by the Rt. Rev. James Kemp, D.D.

[17]
Acts of 1813, ch. 125; 1814, ch. 78.

[18]
Act of 1821, ch. 88.

[19]
Act of 1825, ch. 190.

[20]
Act of 1803, ch. 74.

[21]
Scharf, Chron. of Baltimore, p. 294.

[22]
Act of 1830, ch. 50.

[23]
Lucas, Picture of Baltimore, p. 170.

[24]
Act of 1882, ch. 88.

[25]
Stevens' History of Methodism, II, 253.

[26]
Some account of Cokesbury. MSS. of Rev. Wm. Hamilton.

[27]
Early Schools of Methodism, p. 21.

[28]
MSS. of Rev. I.P. Cook.

[29]
Strickland's Asbury, p. 163.

[30]
Methodist Discipline, 1789, p. 40.

[31]
Asbury's Journal, Vol. I, p. 523.

[32]
II Kings, 4: 40.

[33]
Journal, December 5, 1791.

[34]
Early Schools of Methodism, p. 31.

[35]
Journal, November 21, 1794.

[36]

Act of 1794, ch. 21.

[37]
Rev. Mr. Hamilton's MSS.

[38]
Journal, January 5, 1796.

[39]
Journal, 1796.

[40]
Act of 1817, ch. 144.

[41]
Sprague, Annals of American Pulpit, VII, 279.

[42]
History of the M.E. Church, Vol. III.

[43]
Niles' Register, February 20, 1819.

[44]
Act of 1832, ch. 199.

[45]
Life of Bishop Kerfoot, by Rev. Hall Harrison.

[46]
Act of 1844, ch. 272.

[47]
MSS. of Fr. G.E. Viger.

[48]
Act of 1830, ch. 50.

[49]
MSS. of Rev. G.E. Viger.

[50]
Act of 1865, ch. 10.

[51]
Lewis, Outline of Western Maryland College.

[52]
MSS. of Pres. W.H. Hopkins.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
(1876-1891).
BY DANIEL C. GILMAN.

FOUNDATION.
The year 1876 is commonly taken as the date of the foundation of the Johns
Hopkins University, as in that year its doors were opened for the reception
of students. On the twenty-second of February the plans of the University
were publicly made known, and consequently "Washington's Birthday" has
since been observed as an anniversary or commemoration day. But in
reality the Trustees were organized nine years before. The founder, Johns
Hopkins, as he saw the end of life approaching (although he continued in
active business for several years afterwards), determined to bestow a large
part of his fortune upon two institutions which he proposed to establish, a
University and a Hospital. These establishments were to be managed by
separate Boards of Trustees, citizens of Baltimore, whom he selected for
their integrity, wisdom, and public spirit. In order that the two Boards might
be closely allied, the founder was careful that a majority of the Trustees of
one corporation should also be a majority of the Trustees of the other
corporation, and in a letter which he left as the final expression of his
wishes, he declared it to be his "constant wish and purpose that the Hospital
should ultimately form a part of the Medical School of the University." The
Hospital was opened for the reception of patients in May, 1889; and a
volume which was prepared in the following year by Dr. J.S. Billings, gives
a full description of the buildings, with other papers illustrative of the
history and purposes of that great charity. But as the Medical School, which
is to form the bond of union between the two establishments has not yet
been organized, the following statements will only refer to those
opportunities which are here provided for the study of science and
literature, in the faculty commonly known as the faculty of philosophy and
the liberal arts.

Before speaking of his gifts, a few words should be devoted to the memory
of Johns Hopkins. This large-minded man, whose name is now renowned in
the annals of American philanthropy, acquired his fortune by slow and
sagacious methods. He was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, not far
from the city of Annapolis, of a family which for several generations had
adhered to the views of the Society of Friends. His ancestors were among
the earliest settlers of the colony. While still a boy, Johns Hopkins came to
Baltimore without any capital but good health, the good habits in which he
had been brought up, and unusual capacity for a life of industrious
enterprise. He began on the lowest round of the ladder of fortune, and by
his economy, fidelity, sagacity, and perseverance he rose to independence
and influence. He was called to many positions of financial responsibility,
among the most important being that of President of the Merchants'
National Bank, and that of a Director in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. He was a man of positive opinions in political affairs, yet he
never entered political life; and although he contributed to the support of
educational and benevolent societies he was not active in their management.
In the latter part of his life, he dwelt during the winter in a large mansion,
still standing on the north side of Saratoga street, west of North Charles
street, and during the summer on an estate called Clifton, in Baltimore
County. In both these places he exercised hospitality without ostentation.
He bought a large library and many oil paintings which are now preserved
in a memorial room at the Hospital. Nevertheless, his pursuits were wholly
mercantile, and his time and strength were chiefly devoted to the business
in which he was engaged,—first as a wholesale grocer, and afterwards as a
capitalist interested in many and diverse financial undertakings. More than
once, in time of commercial panic, he lent his credit to the support of
individuals and firms with a liberality which entitled him to general
gratitude. He died in Baltimore, December 24, 1873, at the age of seventy-
nine years. He had never married. After providing for his near relations, he
gave the principal part of his estate to the two institutions which bear his
name, the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Each
of them received property estimated in round numbers at three and a half
million dollars. The gift to the University included his estate of Clifton
(three hundred and thirty acres of land), fifteen thousand shares of the
common stock of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and other securities
which were valued at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Many persons have expressed surprise that Mr. Hopkins should have made
so large an investment in one corporation. But the stock of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad was free from taxation, for many years it paid a dividend
of ten per cent. per annum, and the managers, of whom he was one,
confidently anticipated that a large stock dividend would be declared at an
early day. Mr. Hopkins not only gave to the University all the common
stock that he held in this corporation; he also advised that the Trustees
should not dispose of it, nor of the stock accruing thereon by way of
increment or dividend. In view of the vibrations to which this stock was
subjected during the fifteen years subsequent to the death of Mr. Hopkins, it
should not be forgotten that it was his will that linked the fortune of the
great educational institution, which he founded, to the fortune of another
corporation, in which he had the highest confidence. Fortunately, the crisis
into which this union led, has been successfully passed. The friends of the
University generously subscribed for its support an "emergency fund" of
more than $100,000. Other large gifts were made and others still are known
to be in the future. The Trustees, moreover, have changed four-fifths of their
holdings of the common stock of the railroad company above mentioned,
into its preferred stock, from which a permanent income of six per centum
will be derived. The finances of the University are now on a solid basis,
although additional gifts will be required for the construction of buildings
and for the enlargement of the course of study, and still more before a
medical department can be instituted.

PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION.
The Johns Hopkins University was incorporated under the laws of the State
of Maryland, August 24, 1867. Three years later, June 13, 1870, the
Trustees met and elected a President and a Secretary of the Board. They did
not meet again until after the death of Mr. Hopkins, when they entered with
a definite purpose on the work for which they were associated. They
collected a small but excellent library of books, illustrating the history of
the universities of this and of other lands; they visited in a body Cambridge,
New Haven, Ithaca, Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, and other
seats of learning; they were favored with innumerable suggestions and
recommendations from those who knew much about education, and from

those who knew little; and they invited several scholars of distinction to
give them their counsel. Three presidents of colleges gave them great
assistance, answering in the frankest manner all the searching questions
which were put to them by a sagacious committee. Grateful
acknowledgments will always be due to these three gentlemen: Charles W.
Eliot, LL. D., President of Harvard University, Andrew D. White, LL. D.,
President of Cornell University, and James B. Angell, LL. D., President of
the University of Michigan.

INAUGURAL ASSEMBLY.
The election of a President of the University took place in December, 1874.
He entered upon the duties of his station in the following spring, and in the
summer of 1875, at the request of the Trustees, he went to Europe and
conferred with many leaders of university education in Great Britain and on
the continent. At the same time he visited many of the most important seats
of learning. During the following winter the plans of the University were
formulated and were made public in the Inaugural Address of the President,
which was delivered on the 22nd of February, 1876, before a large audience
assembled in the Academy of Music.
On this occasion, the Governor of the State, Hon. John Lee Carroll; the
Mayor of the City, Hon. Ferdinand C. Latrobe; the Presidents and
representative Professors of a large number of Universities and Colleges;
the Trustees and other officers of the scientific, literary and educational
institutions of Baltimore; the State and City officers of public instruction
and other invited guests, together with the Trustees of Johns Hopkins,
occupied the platform. The house was filled with an attentive audience.
At eleven o'clock, the chair was taken by the President of the Trustees, Mr.
Galloway Cheston. The orchestra of the Peabody Institute, directed by
Professor Asger Hamerik, performed several pieces of classical music.
A prayer was then offered up by Rev. Alfred M. Randolph, D D., of
Emmanuel Church, now Assistant Bishop of Virginia, after which the
Chairman of the Executive Committee, Mr. Reverdy Johnson, Jr., said:

"Our gathering to-day is one of no ordinary interest. From all sections of
our State, from varied sections of our land, we have met at the opening of
another avenue to social progress and national renown. After two years of
pressing responsibility and anxious care the Trustees of the Johns Hopkins
University present the first detailed account of their trust. Of the difficulties
attending the discharge of their duty; of the nice balancing of judgment; of
the careful investigation and continued labor called for in the organization
of the University, this is not the place to speak; but for the Board of
Trustees, I may be allowed to claim the credit of entire devotion to the
work, and a sincere desire to make of the University all that the public
could expect from the generous foundation. Happily, our action is
unfettered, and where mistakes occur, as occur they must, the will and
power are at hand to correct them. We may say that the University's birth
takes place today, and I do not think it mere sentiment, should we dwell
with interest upon its concurrence with the centennial year of our national
birth, and the birthday of him who led the nation from the throes of battle to
maturity and peace. But it is not my province to detain you from the
exercises which are to follow. I am happy to state that we have among us
to-day one who represents the highest type of American education, and one
who, from the beginning, has sympathized with, counselled and aided us. I
know you anticipate me, as I announce the distinguished name, from the
most distinguished seat of learning in our land—President Eliot, of Harvard
University."

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ELIOT.
President Eliot next delivered a Congratulatory Address in which he said:
"The oldest University of the country cordially greets the youngest, and
welcomes a worthy ally—an ally strong in material resources and in high
purpose.
"I congratulate you, gentlemen, Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University,
upon the noble work which is before you. A great property, an important
part of the fruit of a long life devoted with energy and sagacity to the
accumulation of riches, has been placed in your hands, upon conditions as
magnanimous as they are wise, to be used for the public benefit in

providing for coming generations the precious means of liberal culture.
Your Board has great powers. It must hold and manage the property of the
University, make all appointments, fix all salaries, and, while leaving both
legislative and administrative details to the several faculties which it will
create, it must also prescribe the general laws of the University. Your cares
and labor will grow heavy as time goes on; but in accordance with an
admirable usage, fortunately established in this country, you will serve
without other compensation than the public consideration which will justly
attach to your office, and the happy sense of being useful. The actuating
spirit of your Board will be a spirit of scrupulous fidelity to every trust
reposed in you, and of untiring zeal in promoting the welfare of the
University and the advancement of learning. Judged by its
disinterestedness, its beneficence and its permanence, your function is as
pure and high as any that the world knows, or in all time has known. May
the work which you do in the discharge of your sacred trust be regarded
with sympathetic and expectant forbearance by the present generation, and
with admiration and gratitude by posterity.
"The University which is to take its rise in the splendid benefaction of
Johns Hopkins must be unsectarian. None other could as appropriately be
established in the city named for the Catholic founder of a colony to which
all Christian sects were welcomed, or in the State in which religious
toleration was expressly declared in the name of the Government for the
first time in the history of the Christian world. There is a too common
opinion that a college or university which is not denominational must
therefore be irreligious; but the absence of sectarian control should not be
confounded with lack of piety. A university whose officers and students are
divided among many sects need no more be irreverent and irreligious than
the community which in respect to diversity of creeds it resembles. It would
be a fearful portent if thorough study of nature and of man in all his
attributes and works, such as befits a university, led scholars to impiety. But
it does not; on the contrary, such study fills men with humility and awe, by
bringing them on every hand face to face with inscrutable mystery and
infinite power. The whole work of a university is uplifting, refining and
spiritualizing: it embraces

whatsoever touches life
With upward impulse; be He nowhere else,

God is in all that liberates and lifts;
In all that humbles, sweetens and consoles.
"A university cannot be built upon a sect, unless, indeed, it be a sect which
includes the whole of the educated portion of the nation. This University
will not demand of its officers and students the creed, or press upon them
the doctrine of any particular religious organization; but none the less—I
should better say, all the more—it can exert through high-minded teachers a
strong moral and religious influence. It can implant in the young breasts of
its students exalted sentiments and a worthy ambition; it can infuse into
their hearts the sense of honor, of duty, and of responsibility.
"I congratulate the city of Baltimore, Mr. Mayor, that in a few generations
she will be the seat of a rich and powerful university. To her citizens its
grounds and buildings will in time become objects of interest and pride. The
libraries and other collections of a university are storehouses of the
knowledge already acquired by mankind, from which further invention and
improvement proceed. They are great possessions for any intelligent
community. The tone of society will be sensibly affected by the presence of
a considerable number of highly educated men, whose quiet and simple
lives are devoted to philosophy and teaching, to the exclusion of the
common objects of human pursuit. The University will hold high the
standards of public duty and public spirit, and will enlarge that cultivated
class which is distinguished, not by wealth merely, but by refinement and
spirituality.
"I felicitate the State of Maryland, whose Chief Magistrate honors this
assembly with his presence, upon the establishment within her borders of an
independent institution of the highest education. The elementary school is
not more necessary to the existence of a free State than the University. The
public school system depends upon the institutions of higher education, and
could not be maintained in real efficiency without them. The function of
colleges, universities, and professional schools is largely a public function;
their work is done primarily, indeed, upon individuals, but ultimately for the
public good. They help powerfully to form and mould aright the public
character; and that public character is the foundation of everything which is
precious in the State, including even its material prosperity. In training men
thoroughly for the learned professions of law and medicine, this University

will be of great service to Maryland and the neighboring States. During the
past forty years the rules which governed admission to these honorable and
confidential professions have been carelessly relaxed in most of the States
of the Union, and we are now suffering great losses and injuries, both
material and moral, in consequence of thus thoughtlessly abandoning the
safer ways of our fathers. It is for the strong universities of the country to
provide adequate means of training young men well for the learned
professions, and to set a high standard for professional degrees.
"President Gilman, this distinguished assembly has come together to give
you God-speed. I welcome you to arduous duties and grave responsibilities.
In the natural course of life you will not see any large part of the real fruits
of your labors; for to build a university needs not years only, but
generations; but though 'deeds unfinished will weigh on the doer,' and
anxieties will sometimes oppress you, great privileges are nevertheless
attached to your office. It is a precious privilege that in your ordinary work
you will have to do only with men of refinement and honor; it is a glad and
animating sight to see successive ranks of young men pressing year by year
into the battle of life, full of hope and courage, and each year better armed
and equipped for the strife; it is a privilege to serve society and the country
by increasing the means of culture; but, above all, you will have the great
happiness of devoting yourself for life to a noble public work without
reserve, or stint, or thought of self, looking for no advancement, 'hoping for
nothing again,' Knowing well by experience the nature of the charge which
you this day publicly assume, familiar with its cares and labors, its hopes
and fears, its trials and its triumphs, I give you joy of the work to which you
are called, and welcome you to a service which will task your every power.
"The true greatness of States lies not in territory, revenue, population,
commerce, crops or manufactures, but in immaterial or spiritual tilings; in
the purity, fortitude and uprightness of their people, in the poetry, literature,
science and art which they give birth to, in the moral worth of their history
and life. With nations, as with individuals, none but moral supremacy is
immutable and forever beneficent. Universities, wisely directed, store up
the intellectual capital of the race, and become fountains of spiritual and
moral power. Therefore our whole country may well rejoice with you, that
you are auspiciously founding here a worthy seat of learning and piety.
Here may young feet, shunning the sordid paths of low desire and worldly

ambition, walk humbly in the steps of the illustrious dead—the poets,
artists, philosophers and statesmen of the past; here may fresh minds
explore new fields and increase the sum of knowledge; here from time to
time may great men be trained up to be leaders of the people; here may the
irradiating light of genius sometimes flash out to rejoice mankind; above
all, here may many generations of manly youth learn righteousness."

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT.
In his inaugural address, the President of the Johns Hopkins University,
after a grateful reference to the founder and his generosity, and a reminder
that the endowment, large as it appears, is not large when compared with
the acquisitions of many other institutions, called attention to some of the
special distinctions of this gift. Among them were named: the freedom from
conditions; the absence of political or ecclesiastical control; the connection
with an endowed hospital; the geographical advantages of Baltimore; and
the timeliness of the foundation. Five agencies for the promotion of
superior instruction were next briefly discussed, universities, learned
academies, colleges, technical schools, and museums. The object of these
paragraphs was to suggest the distinctive Idea of the University, and to
show that while forms and methods vary in different countries, the freedom
for investigation, the obligation to teach, and the careful bestowal of
academic honors are always understood to be among the university
functions. Wherever a strong university is established, learned societies,
colleges, technical schools, and museums are clustered. It is the sun and
they are the planets.
Twelve points were then enumerated on which there is a consensus so
general that further discussion seemed needless.
1. All sciences are worthy of promotion; or in other words, it is useless to
dispute whether literature or science should receive most attention, or
whether there is any essential difference between the old and the new
education.
2. Religion has nothing to fear from science, and science need not be afraid
of religion. Religion claims to interpret the word of God, and science to

reveal the laws of God. The interpreters may blunder, but truths are
immutable, eternal, and never in conflict.
3. Remote utility is quite as worthy to be thought of as immediate
advantage. Those ventures are not always most sagacious that expect a
return on the morrow. It sometimes pays to send our argosies across the
seas,—to make investments with an eye to slow but sure returns. So it is
always in the promotion of science.
4. As it is impossible for any university to encourage with equal freedom all
branches of learning, a selection must be made by enlightened governors,
and that selection must depend on the requirements and deficiencies of a
given people, in a given period. There is no absolute standard of preference.
What is more important at one time or in one place may be less needed
elsewhere and otherwise.
5. Individual students cannot pursue all branches of learning, and must be
allowed to select, under the guidance of those who are appointed to counsel
them. Nor can able professors be governed by routine. Teachers and pupils
must be allowed great freedom in their method of work. Recitations,
lectures, examinations, laboratories, libraries, field exercises, travel, are all
legitimate means of culture.
6. The best scholars will almost invariably be those who make special
attainments on the foundation of a broad and liberal culture.
7. The best teachers are usually those who are free, competent, and willing
to make original researches in the library and the laboratory.
8. The best investigators are usually those who have also the responsibilities
of instruction, gaining thus the incitement of colleagues, the encouragement
of pupils, the observation of the public.
9. Universities should bestow their honors with a sparing hand; their
benefits most freely.
10. A university cannot be created in a day; it is a slow growth. The
University of Berlin has been quoted as a proof of the contrary. That was
indeed a quick success, but in an old, compact country, crowded with

learned men eager to assemble at the Prussian court. It was a change of base
rather than a sudden development.
11. The object of the university is to develop character—to make men. It
misses its aim if it produces learned pedants, or simple artisans, or cunning
sophists, or pretentious practitioners. Its purport is not so much to impart
knowledge to the pupils, as to whet the appetite, exhibit methods, develop
powers, strengthen judgment, and invigorate the intellectual and moral
forces. It should prepare for the service of society a class of students who
will be wise, thoughtful, progressive guides in whatever department of
work or thought they may be engaged.
12. Universities easily fall into ruts. Almost every epoch requires a fresh
start.
If these twelve points are conceded, our task is simplified, though it is still
difficult. It is to apply these principles to Baltimore in 1876. We are trying
to do this with no controversy as to the relative importance of letters and
science, the conflicts of religion and science, or the relation of abstractions
and utilities; our simple aim is to make scholars, strong, bright, useful and
true.
Proceeding to speak of the Johns Hopkins University, the speaker then
announced that at first the Faculty of Philosophy would alone be organized,
where instruction would be given in language, mathematics, ethics, history
and science. The Medical Faculty would not long be delayed. That of
Jurisprudence would come in time. That of Theology is not now proposed.
The next paragraphs of the address will be given without abbreviation.
Who shall our teachers be?
This question the public has answered for us; for I believe there is scarcely
a preeminent man of science or letters, at home or abroad, who has not
received a popular nomination for the vacant professorships. Some of these
candidates we shall certainly secure, and their names will be one by one
made known. But I must tell you, in domestic confidence, that it is not an
easy task to transplant a tree which is deeply rooted. It is especially hard to
do so in our soil and climate. Though a migratory people, our college
professors are fixtures. Such local college attachments are not known in

Germany; and the promotions which are frequent in Germany are less
thought of here. When we think of calling foreign teachers, we encounter
other difficulties. Many are reluctant to cross the sea; and others are, by
reason of their lack of acquaintance with our language and ways,
unavailable. Besides we may as well admit that London, Paris, Leipsic,
Berlin, and Vienna afford facilities for literary and scientific growth and
influence, far beyond what our country affords. Hence, it is probable that
among our own countrymen, our faculty will be chiefly found.
I wrote, not long ago, to an eminent physicist, presenting this problem in
social mechanics, for which I asked his solution, "We cannot have a great
university without great professors; we cannot get great professors till we
have a great university: help us from the dilemma." Let me tell his answer:
"Your difficulty," he says, "applies only to old men who are great; these you
can rarely move; but the young men of genius, talent, learning and promise,
you can draw. They should be your strength."
The young Americans of talent and promise—there is our strength, and a
noble company they are! We do not ask from what college, or what state, or
what church they come; but what do they know, and what can they do, and
what do they want to find out.
In the biographies of eminent scholars, it is curious to observe how many
indicated in youth preeminent ability. Isaac Casaubon, whose name in the
sixteenth century shed lustre on the learned circles of Geneva, Montpellier,
Paris, London and Oxford, began as professor of Greek, at the age of
twenty-two; and Heinsius, his Leyden contemporary, at eighteen. It was at
the age of twenty-eight, that Linnaeus first published his Systema Naturae.
Cuvier was appointed a professor in Paris at twenty-six, and, a few months
later, a member of the Institute. James Kent, the great commentator on
American law, began his lectures in Columbia College at the age of thirty-
one. Henry was not far from thirty years of age when he made his world-
renowned researches in electro-magnetism; and Dana's great work on
mineralogy was first published before he was twenty-five years old, and
about four years after he graduated at New Haven. Look at the Harvard
lists:—Everett was appointed Professor of Greek at twenty-one; Benjamin
Peirce, of Mathematics at twenty-four; and Agassiz was not yet forty when
he came to this country. For fifty years Yale College rested on three men

selected in their youth by Dr. Dwight, and almost simultaneously set at
work; Day was twenty-eight, Silliman, twenty-three, and Kingsley, twenty-
seven, when they began their professorial lives. The University of Virginia,
early in its history, attracted foreign teachers, who were all young men.
We shall hope to secure a strong staff of young men, appointing them
because they have twenty years before them; selecting them on evidence of
their ability; increasing constantly their emoluments, and promoting them
because of their merit to successive posts, as scholars, fellows, assistants,
adjuncts, professors and university professors. This plan will give us an
opportunity to introduce some of the features of the English fellowship and
the German system of privat-docents; or in other words, to furnish positions
where young men desirous of a university career may have a chance to
begin, sure at least of a support while waiting for promotion.
Our plans begin but do not end here. As men of distinction, who have won
the highest rank in their callings, are known to be free, we shall invite them
to come among us.
If we would maintain a university, great freedom must be allowed both to
teachers and scholars. This involves freedom of methods to be employed by
the instructors on the one hand, and on the other, freedom of courses to be
selected by the students.
But this freedom is based on laws,—two of which cannot be too distinctly
or too often enunciated. A law which should govern the admission of pupils
is this, that before they win this privilege they must have been matured by
the long, preparatory discipline of superior teachers, and by the systematic,
laborious, and persistent pursuit of fundamental knowledge; and a second
law, which should govern the work of professors, is this, that with unselfish
devotion to the discovery and advancement of truth and righteousness, they
renounce all other preferment, so that, like the greatest of all teachers, they
may promote the good of mankind.
I see no advantage in our attempting to maintain the traditional four-year
class-system of the American colleges. It has never existed in the University
of Virginia; it is modified, though not nominally given up at Harvard; it is
not an important characteristic of Michigan and Cornell; it is not known in
the English, French or German universities. It is a collegiate rather than a

university method. If parents or students desire us to mark out prescribed
courses, either classical or scientific, lasting four years, it will be easy to do
so. But I apprehend that many students will come to us excellent in some
branches of a liberal education and deficient in others—good perhaps in
Greek, Latin and mathematics; deficient in chemistry, physics, zoology,
history, political economy, and other progressive sciences. I would give to
such candidates on examination, credit for their attainments, and assign
them in each study the place for which they are fitted. A proficient in Plato
may be a tyro in Euclid. Moreover, I would make attainments rather than
time the condition of promotion; and I would encourage every scholar to go
forward rapidly or go forward slowly, according to the fleetness of his foot
and his freedom from impediment. In other words, I would have our
University seek the good of individuals rather than of classes.
The sphere of a university is sometimes restricted by its walls or is limited
to those who are enrolled on its lists. There are three particulars in which
we shall aim at extramural influence: first, as an examining body, ready to
examine and confer degrees or other academic honors on those who are
trained elsewhere; next, as a teaching body, by opening to educated persons
(whether enrolled as students or not) such lectures as they may wish to
attend, under certain restrictions—on the plan of the lectures in the high
seminaries of Paris; and, finally, as in some degree at least a publishing
body, by encouraging professors and lecturers to give to the world in print
the results of their researches.
What are we aiming at?
An enduring foundation; a slow development; first local, then regional, then
national influence; the most liberal promotion of all useful knowledge; the
special provision of such departments as are elsewhere neglected in the
country; a generous affiliation with all other institutions, avoiding
interferences, and engaging in no rivalry; the encouragement of research;
the promotion of young men; and the advancement of individual scholars,
who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the
society where they dwell.
No words could indicate our aim more fitly than those by which John Henry
Newman expresses his "Idea of the University," in a page glowing with

enthusiasm, to which I delight to revert.
What will be our agencies?
A large staff of teachers; abundance of instruments, apparatus, diagrams,
books, and other means of research and instruction; good laboratories, with
all the requisite facilities; accessory influences, coming both from
Baltimore and Washington; funds so unrestricted, charter so free, schemes
so elastic, that as the world goes forward, our plans will be adjusted to its
new requirements.
What will be our methods?
Liberal advanced instruction for those who want it; distinctive honors for
those who win them; appointed courses for those who need them; special
courses for those who can take no other; a combination of lectures,
recitations, laboratory practice, field work and private instruction; the
largest discretion allowed to the Faculty consistent with the purposes in
view; and, finally, an appeal to the community to increase our means, to
strengthen our hands, to supplement our deficiencies, and especially to
surround our scholars with those social, domestic and religious influences
which a corporation can at best imperfectly provide, but which may be
abundantly enjoyed in the homes, the churches and the private associations
of an enlightened Christian city.
Citizens of Baltimore and Maryland.—This great undertaking does not rest
upon the Trustees alone; the whole community has a share in it. However
strong our purposes, they will be modified, inevitably, by the opinions of
enlightened men; so let parents and teachers incite the youth of this
commonwealth to high aspirations; let wise and judicious counsellors
continue their helpful suggestions, sure of being heard with grateful
consideration; let skilful writers, avoiding captionsness on the one hand and
compliment on the other, uphold or refute or amend the tenets here
announced; let the guardians of the press diffuse widely a knowledge of the
benefits which are here provided; let men of means largely increase the
usefulness of this work by their timely gifts.
At the moment there is nothing which seems to me so important, in this
region, and indeed in the entire land, as the promotion of good secondary

schools, preparatory to the universities. There are old foundations in
Maryland which require to be made strong, and there is room for newer
enterprises, of various forms. Every large town should have an efficient
academy or high school; and men of wealth can do no greater service to the
public than by liberally encouraging, in their various places of abode, the
advanced instruction of the young. None can estimate too highly the good
which came to England from the endowment of Lawrence Sheriff at Rugby,
and of Queen Elizabeth's school at Westminster, or the value to New
England of the Phillips foundations in Exeter and And over.
Every contribution made by others to this new University will enable the
Trustees to administer with greater liberality their present funds. Special
foundations may be affiliated with our trust, for the encouragement of
particular branches of knowledge, for the reward of merit, for the
construction of buildings; and each gift, like the new recruits of an army,
will be more efficient because of the place it takes in an organized and
efficient company. It is a great satisfaction in this world of changes and
pecuniary loss to remember what safe investments have been made at
Harvard and Yale, and other old colleges, where dollar for dollar is still
shown for every gift.
The atmosphere of Maryland seems favorable to such deeds of piety,
hospitality and "good-will to men." George Calvert, the first Lord
Baltimore, comes here, returns to England and draws up a charter which
becomes memorable in the annals of civil and religious liberty, for which,
"he deserves to be ranked," (as Bancroft says), "among the most wise and
benevolent lawgivers of all ages;" among the liberals of 1776 none was
bolder than Charles Carroll of Carrollton; John Eager Howard, the hero of
Cowpens, is almost equally worthy of gratitude for the liberality of his
public gifts; John McDonogh, of Baltimore birth, bestows his fortune upon
two cities for the instruction of their youth; George Peabody, resident here
in early life, comes back in old age to endow an Athenaeum, and begins that
outpouring of munificence which gives him a noble rank among modern
philanthropists; Moses Sheppard bequeaths more than half a million for the
relief of mental disease; Rinehart, the teamster boy, attains distinction as a
sculptor, and bequeaths his hard-won acquisitions for the encouragement of
art in the city of his residence; and a Baltimorean still living, provides for
the foundation of an astronomical observatory in Yale College; while Johns

Hopkins lays a foundation for learning and charity, which we celebrate to-
day.
The closing sentences of the discourse were addressed to the young men of
Baltimore and to the Trustees.

THE FACULTY.
One of the earliest duties which devolved upon the President and Trustees,
after deciding upon the general scope of the University, was to select a staff
of teachers by whose assistance and counsel the details of the plan should
be worked out. It would hardly be right in this place to recall the distinctive
merits of the able and learned scholars who have formed the academic staff
during the first fourteen years, but perhaps the writer may be allowed to pay
in passing a tribute of gratitude and respect to those who entered the service
of the University at its beginning. To their suggestions, their enthusiasm,
their learning, and above all their freedom from selfish aims and from petty
jealousies, must be attributed in a great degree the early distinction of this
institution. They came from widely distant places; they had been trained by
widely different methods; they had widely different intellectual aptitudes;
but their diversities were unified by their devotion to the university in
which they were enlisted, and by their desire to promote its excellence. This
spirit has continued till the present time, and has descended to those who
have from time to time joined the ranks, so that it may be emphatically said
that the union of the Faculty has been the key to its influence.
The first requisite of success in any institution is a staff of eminent teachers,
each of whom gives freely the best of which he is capable. The best varies
with the individual; one may be an admirable lecturer or teacher; another a
profound thinker; a third a keen investigator; another a skilful experimenter;
the next, a man of great acquisitions; one may excel by his industry, another
by his enthusiasm, another by his learning, another by his genius; but every
member of a faculty should be distinguished by some uncommon
attainments and by some special aptitudes, while the faculty as a whole
should be united and cooperative. Each professor, according to his subject
and his talents, should have his own best mode of working, adjusted to and
controlled by the exigencies of the institution with which he is associated.
The original professors, who were present when instructions began in
October, 1876, were these: as the head and guide of the mathematical
studies, Professor Sylvester, of Cambridge, Woolwich and London, one of
the foremost of European mathematicians; as the leader of classical studies,

Professor Gildersleeve, then of the University of Virginia; as director of the
Chemical Laboratory and of instruction in chemistry, Professor Remsen,
then of Williams College; to organize the work in Biology (a department
then scarcely known in American institutions, but here regarded as of great
importance with reference to the future school of medicine), Professor
Martin, then of Cambridge (Eng.), a pupil of Professor Michael Foster and
of Professor Huxley; as chief in the department of Physics, Professor
Rowland, then holding a subordinate position in the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, whose ability in this department had been shown by the
contributions he had made to scientific journals; and as collegiate professor,
or guide to the undergraduate students, Professor Charles D. Morris, once
an Oxford fellow, and then of the University of the City of New York.
The names of the professors in the Faculty of Philosophy, from 1876 to
1890, are as follows, arranged in the order of their appointment:
1876 BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE, LL. D Greek.
1876 J.J. SYLVESTER, LL. D Mathematics.
1876 IRA KEMSEN, Ph. D Chemistry.
1876 HENRY A. ROWLAND, Ph. D Physics.
1876 H. NEWELL MARTIN, Sc. D Biology.
1876 CHARLES D. MORRIS, A. M Classics,
(Collegiate).
1883 PAUL HAUPT, Ph. D Semitic Languages.
1884 G. STANLEY HALL, LL. D Psychology.
1884 WILLIAM H. WELCH, M. D Pathology.
1884 SIMON NEWCOMB, LL. D Mathematics and
Astronomy.
1886 JOHN H. WRIGHT, A.M Classical Philology.
1889 EDWARD H. GRIFFIN, LL.D History of Philosophy.
1891 HERBERT B. ADAMS, Ph.D Amer. and Inst.
History.
1891 WILLIAM K. BROOKS, Ph.D Animal Morphology.

The persons below named have been appointed associate professors,—and
their names are arranged in the order of their appointment:
1883 HERBERT B. ADAMS, Ph.D History.
1883 MAURICE BLOOMFIELD, Ph.D Sanskrit and Comp.
Philology.
1883 WILLIAM K. BROOKS, Ph.D Animal Morphology.
1883 THOMAS CRAIG, Ph.D Mathematics.
1883 CHARLES S. HASTINGS, Ph.D Physics.
1883 HARMON N. MORSE, Ph.D Chemistry.

1883 WILLIAM E. STORY, Ph.D Mathematics.
1883 MINTON WARREN, Ph.D Latin.
1884 A. MARSHALL ELLIOT, Ph.D Romance Languages.
1884 J. RENDEL HARRIS, A.M New Testament Greek.
1885 GEORGE H. EMMOTT, A.M Logic.
1885 C. RENE GREGORY, Ph.D New Testament Greek.
1885 GEORGE H. WILLIAMS, Ph.D Inorganic Geology.
1885 HENRY WOOD, Ph.D German.
1887 RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D Political Economy.
1888 WILLIAM T. COUNCILMAN, M.D Anatomy.
1888 WILLIAM H. HOWELL, Ph.D Animal Physiology.
1888 ARTHUR L. KIMBALL, Ph.D Physics.
1888 EDWARD H. SPIEKER, Ph.D Greek and Latin.
1889 Louis DUNCAN, Ph.D Electricity.
1889 FABIAN FRANKLIN, Ph.D Mathematics.

At the opening of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the principal physicians and
surgeons of that foundation were appointed professors of the University,
namely, arranged in the order of their appointment:
1889 WILLIAM OSLER, M.D Medicine.
1889 HENRY M. HURD, M.D Psychiatry.
1889 HOWARD A. KELLY, M.D Gynecology.
1889 WILLIAM S. HALSTED, M.D Surgery.

In selecting a staff of teachers, the Trustees have endeavored to consider
especially the devotion of the candidate to some particular line of study and
the certainty of his eminence in that specialty; the power to pursue
independent and original investigation, and to inspire the young with
enthusiasm for study and research; the willingness to coöperate in building
up a new institution; and the freedom from tendencies toward ecclesiastical
or sectional controversies. They announced that they would not be governed
by denominational or geographical considerations in the appointment of any
teacher; but would endeavor to select the best person whose services they
could secure in the position to be filled,—irrespective of the place where he
was born, or the college in which he was trained, or the religious body with
which he might be enrolled.
It is obvious that in addition to the qualifications above mentioned, regard
has always been paid to those personal characteristics which cannot be
rigorously defined, but which cannot be overlooked if the ethical as well as
the intellectual character of a professorial station is considered, and if the

social relations of a teacher to his colleagues, his pupils, and their friends,
are to be harmoniously maintained. The professor in a university teaches as
much by his example as by his precepts.
Besides the resident professors, it has been the policy of the University to
enlist from time to time the services of distinguished scholars as lecturers
on those subjects to which their studies have been particularly directed.
During the first few years the number of such lecturers was larger, and the
duration of their visits was longer than it has been recently. When the
faculty was small, the need of the occasional lecturer was more apparent for
obvious reasons, than it has been in later days. Still the University continues
to invite the cooperation of non-resident professors, and the proximity of
Baltimore to Washington makes it particularly easy to engage learned
gentlemen from the capital to give occasional lectures upon their favorite
studies. Recently a lectureship of Poetry has been founded by Mr. and Mrs.
Turnbull of Baltimore, in memory of a son who is no longer living, and an
annual course may be expected from writers of distinction who are known
either as poets, or as critics, or as historians of poetry. The first lecturer on
this foundation will be Mr. E.C. Stedman, of New York, the second,
Professor Jebb, of Cambridge (Eng.). Another lectureship has been
instituted by Mr. Eugene Levering with the object of promoting the
purposes of the Young Men's Christian Association. The first lecturer on
this foundation was Rev. Dr. Broadus, of Louisville, Ky.
A few of those who held the position of lecturers made Baltimore their
home for such prolonged periods that they could not properly be called non-
resident. The following list contains the principal appointments. It might be
much enlarged by naming those persons who have lectured at the request of
one department of the University and not of the Trustees, and by naming
some who gave but single lectures.
1876 SIMON NEWCOMB Astronomy.
1876 LÉONCE RABILLON French.
1877 JOHN S. BILLINGS Medical History, etc.
1877 FRANCIS J. CHILD English Literature,
1877 THOMAS M. COOLEY Law.
1877 JULIUS E. HILGARD Geodetic Surveys.
1877 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Romance Literature.
1877 JOHN W. MALLET Technological
Chemistry.

1877 FRANCIS A. WALKER Political Economy.
1877 WILLIAM D. WHITNEY Comparative Philology.
1878 WILLIAM F. ALLEN History.
1878 WILLIAM JAMES Psychology.
1878 GEORGE S. MORRIS History of Philosophy.
1879 J. LEWIS DIMAN History.
1879 H. VON HOLST History.
1879 WILLIAM G. FARLOW Botany.
1879 J. WILLARD GIBBS Theoretical Mechanics.
1879 SIDNEY LANIER English Literature.
1879 CHARLES S. PEIRCE Logic.
1880 JOHN TROWBRIDGE Physics.
1881 A. GRAHAM BELL Phonology.
1881 S.P. LANGLEY Physics.
1881 JOHN McCRADY Biology.
1881 JAMES BRYCE Political Science.
1881 EDWARD A. FREEMAN History.
1881 JOHN J. KNOX Banking.
1882 ARTHUR CAYLEY Mathematics.
1882 WILLIAM W. GOODWIN Plato.
1882 G. STANLEY HALL Psychology.
1882 RICHARD M. VENABLE Constitutional Law.
1882 JAMES A. HARRISON Anglo-Saxon.
1882 J. RENDEL HARRIS New Testament Greek.
1883 GEORGE W. CABLE English Literature.
1883 WILLIAM W. STORY Michel Angela.
1883 HIRAM CORSON English Literature.
1883 F. SEYMOUR HADEN Etchers and Etching.
1883 JOHN S. BILLINGS Municipal Hygiene.
1883 JAMES BRYCE Roman Law.
1883 H. VON HOLST Political Science.
1884 WILLIAM TRELEASE Botany.
1884 J. THACHER CLARKE Explorations in Assos.
1884 JOSIAH ROYCE Philosophy.
1884 WILLIAM J. STILLMAN Archaeology.
1884 CHARLES WALDSTEIN Archaeology.
1884 SIR WILLIAM THOMSON Molecular Dynamics.
1885 A. MELVILLE BELL Phonetics, etc.
1885 EDMUND GOSSE English Literature.
1885 EUGENE SCHUYLER U.S. Diplomacy.
1885 JUSTIN WINSOR Shakespeare.
1885 FREDERICK WEDMORE Modern Art.
1886 ISAAC H. HALL New Testament.
1886 WILLIAM HAYES WARD Assyria.
1886 WILLIAM LIBBEY, JR Alaska.
1886 ALFRED R. WALLACE Island Life.
1886 MANDELL CREIGHTON Rise of European
Universities.

1887 ARTHUR L. FROTHINGHAM, JR Babylonian and
Assyrian Art.
1887 RODOLFO LANCIANI Roman Archaeology.
1888 ANDREW D. WHITE The French Revolution.
1890 JOHN A. BROADUS Origin of
Christianity.

The number of associates, readers, and assistants has been very large, most
such appointments having been made for brief periods among young men of
promise looking forward to preferment in this institution or elsewhere.

DISTINCTION BETWEEN COLLEGIATE AND UNIVERSITY
COURSES.
From the opening of the University until now a sharp distinction has been
made between the methods of university instruction and those of collegiate
instruction. In the third annual report, September 1, 1878, the views which
had been announced at the opening of the University are expanded and are
illustrated by the action of the Trustees and the Faculty during the first two
years.
The terms university and college have been so frequently interchanged in
this country that their significance is liable to be confounded; and it may be
worth while, once more at least, to call attention to the distinction which is
recognized among us. By the college is understood a place for the orderly
training of youth in those elements of learning which should underlie all
liberal and professional culture. The ordinary conclusion of a college course
is the Bachelor's degree. Usually, but not necessarily, the college provides
for the ecclesiastical and religious as well as the intellectual training of its
scholars. Its scheme admits but little choice. Frequent daily drill in
languages, mathematics, and science, with compulsory attendance and
frequent formal examinations, is the discipline to which each student is
submitted. This work is simple, methodical, and comparatively inexpensive.
It is understood and appreciated in every part of this country.
In the university more advanced and special instruction is given to those
who have already received a college training or its equivalent, and who now
desire to concentrate their attention upon special departments of learning

and research. Libraries, laboratories, and apparatus require to be liberally
provided and maintained. The holders of professorial chairs must be
expected and encouraged to advance by positive researches the sciences to
which they are devoted; and arrangements must be made in some way to
publish and bring before the criticism of the world the results of such
investigations. Primarily, instruction is the duty of the professor in a
university as it is in a college; but university students should be so mature
and so well trained as to exact from their teachers the most advanced
instruction, and even to quicken and inspire by their appreciative responses
the new investigations which their professors undertake. Such work is
costly and complex; it varies with time, place, and teacher; it is always
somewhat remote from popular sympathy, and liable to be depreciated by
the ignorant and thoughtless. But it is by the influence of universities, with
their comprehensive libraries, their costly instruments, their stimulating
associations and helpful criticisms, and especially their great professors,
indifferent to popular applause, superior to authoritative dicta, devoted to
the discovery and revelation of truth, that knowledge has been promoted,
and society released from the fetters of superstition and the trammels of
ignorance, ever since the revival of letters.
In further exposition of these views, from men of different pursuits,
reference should be made to an article on Classics and Colleges, by
Professor Gildersleeve (Princeton Review, July, 1878), lately reprinted in
the author's "Essays and Studies," (Baltimore, 1890); to an address by
Professor Sylvester before the University on "Mathematical Studies and
University Life," (February 22, 1877); to an address by Professor Martin on
the study of Biology (Popular Science Monthly, January, 1877); to some
remarks on the study of Chemistry by Professor Remsen (Popular Science
Monthly, April, 1877); and to an address entitled "A Plea for Pure Science"
(Salem, 1883), by Professor Rowland, as a Vice-President of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Although of a much later date,
reference should also be made to an address by Professor Adams (February
22, 1889) on the work of the Johns Hopkins University, printed in the Johns
Hopkins University Circulars, No. 71. An address by Dr. James Carey
Thomas, one of the Trustees, at the tenth anniversary, in 1886, may also be
consulted (Ibid. No. 50). Reference may also be made to the fifteen annual
reports of the University and to the articles below named, by the writer of

this sketch. The Group System of College Courses in the Johns Hopkins
University (Andover Review, June, 1886); The Benefits which Society
derives from Universities: Annual Address on Commemoration Day, 1885
(Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 37); article on Universities in
Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political Science; an address before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society of Harvard University, July 1, 1886; an address at the
opening of Bryn Mawr College, 1885.

STUDENTS, COURSES OF STUDIES, AND DEGREES.
In accordance with the plans thus formulated, the students have included
those who have already taken an academic degree, and who have here
engaged in advanced studies; those who have entered as candidates for the
Bachelors' degree; and those who have pursued special courses without
reference to degrees. The whole number of persons enrolled in these three
classes during the first fourteen years (1876-1890) is fifteen hundred and
seventy-one. Seven hundred and three persons have pursued undergraduate
courses and nine hundred and two have followed graduate studies. Many of
those who entered as undergraduates have continued as graduates, and have
proceeded to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. These students have come
from nearly every State in the Union, and not a few of them have come
from foreign lands. Many of those who received degrees before coming
here were graduates of the principal institutions of this country. The degree
of Doctor of Philosophy has been awarded after three years or more of
graduate studies to one hundred and eighty-four persons, and that of
Bachelor of Arts to two hundred and fifty at the end of their collegiate
course.
Two degrees, and two only, have been opened to the students of this
University. Believing that the manifold forms in which the baccalaurate
degree is conferred are confusing the public, and that they tend to lessen the
respect for academic titles, the authorities of the Johns Hopkins University
determined to bestow upon all those who complete their collegiate courses
the title of Bachelor of Arts. This degree is intended to indicate that its
possessor has received a liberal education, or in other words that he has
completed a prolonged and systematic course of studies in which languages,

mathematics, sciences, history, and philosophy have been included. The
amount of time devoted to each of these various subjects varies according
to individual needs and preference, but all the combinations are supposed to
be equally difficult and honorable. Seven such combinations or groups of
studies have been definitely arranged, and "the group system," thus
introduced, combines many of the advantages of the elective system, with
many of the advantages of a fixed curriculum. The undergraduate has his
choice among many different lines of study, but having made this
determination he is expected to follow the sequence prescribed for him by
his teachers. He may follow the old classical course; or he may give
decided preference to mathematics and physics; or he may select a group of
studies, antecedent to the studies of a medical school; or he may pursue a
scientific course in which chemistry predominates; or he may lay a
foundation for the profession of law by the study of history and political
science; or he may give to modern languages the preference accorded in the
first group to the ancient classics. In making his selection, and indeed in
prosecuting the career of an undergraduate, he has the counsel of some
member of the faculty who is called his adviser. While each course has its
predominant studies, each comprises in addition the study of French and
German, and at least one branch of science, usually chemistry or physics,
with laboratory exercises.
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy is offered to those who continue their
studies in a university for three years or more after having attained the
baccalaureate degree. Their attention must be given to studies which are
included in the faculty of philosophy and the liberal arts, and not to the
professional faculties of Law, Medicine, and Theology. Students who have
graduated in other institutions of repute may offer themselves as candidates
for this degree. In addition to the requirements above mentioned, the
student must show his proficiency in one principal subject and in two that
are secondary, and must submit himself to rigid examinations, first written
and then oral. He must also present a thesis which must gain the approval of
the special committee to which it may be referred, and must subsequently
be printed. All these requisitions are enforced by a faculty which is known
as the Board of University Studies.
As an encouragement to the systematic prosecution of university studies,
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in this University is offered under the

following conditions.
A Board of University Studies is constituted for the purpose of guiding the
work of those who may become candidates for this degree. The time of
study is a period of at least three years of distinctive university work in the
philosophical Faculty. It is desirable that the student accepted as a candidate
should reside here continuously until his final examinations are passed, and
he is required to spend the last year before he is graduated in definite
courses of study at this University. Before he can be accepted as a
candidate, he must satisfy the examiners that he has received a good
collegiate education, that he has a reading knowledge of French and
German, and that he has a good command of literary expression. He must
also name his principal subject of study and the two subordinate subjects.
The Board reserves the right to say in each case whether the antecedent
training has been satisfactory, and, if any of the years of advanced work
have been passed by the candidate away from this University, whether they
may be regarded as spent in university studies under suitable guidance and
favorable conditions. Such studies must have been pursued without serious
distractions and under qualified teachers.
Private study, or study pursued at a distance from libraries and laboratories
and other facilities, will not be considered as equivalent to university study.
In the conditions which are stated below, it will appear that there are several
tests of the proficiency of the candidate, in addition to the constant
observation of his instructors. A carefully prepared thesis must be presented
by the candidate on a subject approved by his chief adviser, and this thesis
must receive the approbation of the Board. There are private examinations
of the candidate, both in his chief subject and in the subordinate subjects. If
these tests are successfully passed, there is a final oral examination in the
presence of the Board.
As an indication of the possible combinations which may be made by those
who are studying for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the following
schedule is presented:
Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry; Animal Physiology, Animal
Morphology, and Chemistry; Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology;

Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics; Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin; History,
Political Economy, and International Law; Greek, Sanskrit, and Latin;
French, Italian and Spanish, and German; Latin, Sanskrit, and Roman Law;
Latin, Sanskrit, and German; Assyriology, Ethiopic and Arabic, and Greek;
Political Economy, History, and Administration; English, German, and Old
Norse; Inorganic Geology and Petrography, Mineralogy, and Chemistry;
Geology and Mineralogy, Chemistry, and Physics; Romance Languages,
German, and English; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit; German, English, and
Sanskrit.
While students are encouraged to proceed to academic degrees, the
authorities have always borne in mind the needs of those who could not, for
one reason or another, remain in the university for more than a year or two,
and who might wish to prosecute their studies in a particular direction
without any reference to academic honors. Such students have always been
welcome, especially those who have been mature enough to know their own
requirements and to follow their chosen courses, without the incentive of
examinations and diplomas.

PUBLICATIONS, SEMINARIES, SOCIETIES.
The Johns Hopkins University has encouraged publication. In addition to
the annual Register or Catalogue, the report of the President is annually
published, and from time to time during the year "Circulars" are printed, in
which the progress of investigations, the proceedings of societies, reports of
lectures, and the appearance of books and essays are recorded.
Encouragement is also given by the Trustees to the publication of literary
and scientific periodicals and occasionally of learned essays and books. The
journals regularly issued are:
I. American Journal of Mathematics. S. Newcomb, Editor, and T. Craig,
Associate Editor. Quarterly. 4to. Volume XIII in progress.
II. American Chemical Journal. I. Remsen, Editor. 8 nos. yearly. 8vo.
Volume XIII in progress.
III. American Journal of Philology. B.L. Gildersleeve, Editor. Quarterly,
8vo. Volume XI in progress.

IV. Studies from the Biological Laboratory. II. N. Martin, Editor, and W.K.
Brooks, Associate Editor. 8vo. Volume V in progress.
V. Studies in Historical and Political Science, II. B. Adams, Editor.
Monthly. 8vo. Vol. IX in progress.
VI. Contributions to Assyriology, etc. Fr. Delitzsch and Paul Haupt, Editors.
Vol. II in progress.
VII. Johns Hopkins University Circulars. 85 numbers issued.
Another form of intellectual activity is shown in the seminaries and
scientific associations which have more or less of an official character. In
the seminary, the professor engages with a small company of advanced
students, in some line of investigation—the results of which, if found
important, are often published. The relations of the head of a seminary to
those whom he admits to this advanced work, are very close. The younger
men have an opportunity of seeing the methods by which older men work.
The sources of knowledge, the so-called authorities, are constantly
examined. The drift of modern discussions is followed. Investigations,
sometimes of a very special character, are carefully prosecuted. All this is
done upon a plan, and with the incessant supervision of the director, upon
whose learning, enthusiasm, and suggestiveness, the success of the
seminary depends. Each such seminary among us has its own collection of
books.
The associations or societies serve a different purpose. They bring together
larger companies of professors and graduate students, who hear and discuss
such papers as the members may present. These papers are not connected
by one thread like those which come before the seminaries. They are
usually of more general interest, and they often present the results of long
continued thought and investigation.

BUILDINGS, LIBRARIES, AND COLLECTIONS.
The site selected when the University was opened in the heart of Baltimore,
near the corner of Howard and Monument streets, has proved so
convenient, that from time to time additional property in that neighborhood

has been secured and the buildings thus purchased have either been
modified so as to meet the academic needs, or have given place to new and
commodious edifices.
The principal buildings now in use are these:
(1). A central administration building, in which are the class-rooms for
classical and oriental studies.
(2). A library building, in which are also rooms devoted especially to
history and political science.
(3). A chemical laboratory well equipped for the service of more than a
hundred workers.
(4). A biological laboratory, with excellent arrangements for physiological
and morphological investigations.
(5). A physical laboratory—the latest and best of the laboratories—with
excellent accommodations for physical research and instruction.
(6). A gymnasium for bodily exercise.
(7). Two dwelling houses, appropriated to the collections in mineralogy and
geology until a suitable museum and laboratory can be constructed.
(8). Levering Hall, constructed for the uses of the Young Men's Christian
Association, and containing a large hall which may be used for general
purpeses.
(9). Smaller buildings used for the smaller classes.
(10). An official residence of the President, which came to the University as
a part of the bequest of the late John W. McCoy, Esq.
The library of the university numbers nearly 45,000 well selected volumes,
—including "the McCoy library" not yet incorporated with the other books,
and numbering 8,000 volumes. Not far from 1,000 periodicals are received,
from every part of the civilized world. Quite near to the university is the
Library of the Peabody Institute, a large, well-chosen, well-arranged, and

well-catalogued collection. It numbers more than one hundred thousand
volumes.
The university has extensive collections of minerals and fossils, a select
zoological and botanical museum, a valuable collection of ancient coins, a
remarkable collection of Egyptian antiquities (formed by Col. Mendes I.
Cohen, of Baltimore), a bureau of maps and charts, a number of noteworthy
autographs and literary manuscripts of modern date, and a large amount of
the latest and best scientific apparatus—astronomical, physical, chemical,
biological, photographical, and petrographical.

STATISTICS.
Summary of Attendance, 1876-90.

Total
Enrolled
Years. Teachers. Students. Graduates. Matriculates.
Special.
1876-77 29 89 54 12
23
1877-78 34 104 58 24
22
1878-79 25 123 63 25
35
1879-80 33 159 79 32
48
1880-81 39 176 102 37
37
1881-82 43 175 99 45
31
1882-83 41 204 125 49
30
1883-84 49 249 159 53
37
1884-85 52 290 174 69
47
1885-86 49 314 184 96
34
1886-87 51 378 228 108
42
1887-88 57 420 231 127

62
1888-89 55 394 216 129
49
1889-90 58 404 229 130
45
1890-91 64 427 231 142
54

Summary of Attendance, 1876-90 (continued).

Degrees Conferred.
Years. A.B. Ph.D.
1876-77 -- --
1877-78 -- 4
1878-79 3 6
1879-80 16 5
1880-81 12 9
1881-82 15 9
1882-83 10 6
1883-84 23 15
1884-85 9 13
1885-86 31 17
1886-87 24 20
1887-88 34 27
1888-89 36 20
1889-90 37 33
1890-91 -- --

TRUSTEES.
It should never be forgotten in considering the history of such a foundation
that the ultimate responsibility for its organization and government rests
upon the Board of Trustees. If they are enlightened and high-minded men,
devoted to the advancement of education, their influence will be felt in
every department of instruction. The Johns Hopkins University has been
exceptionally favored in this respect. Mr. Hopkins chose the original body
with the same sagacity that he showed in all his career as a business man;
and as, one by one, vacancies have occurred, men of the same type have
been selected, by coöptation, for these important positions. The names of
the Trustees from the beginning are as follows:

*1867 GEORGE WILLIAM BROWN.
*1867 GALLOWAY CHESTON.
1867 GEORGE W. DOBBIN.
*1867 JOHN FONERDEN.
*1867 OHN W. GARRETT.
1867 CHARLES J.M. GWINN.
1867 LEWIS N. HOPKINS.
*1867 WILLIAM HOPKINS.
1867 REVERDY JOHNSON, JR.
1867 FRANCIS T. KING.
*1867 THOMAS M. SMITH.
1867 FRANCIS WHITE.
1870 JAMES CAREY THOMAS.
1878 C. MORTON STEWART.
1881 JOSEPH P. ELLIOTT.
1881 J. HALL PLEASANTS.
1881 ALAN P. SMITH.
1886 ROBERT GARRETT.
1891 JAMES L. McLANE.

* Deceased.

Notes supplementary to the Johns Hopkins University Studies in
Historical and Political Science, 1891, No. 1.

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION AND THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE FUTURE.

THE SUBSTANCE OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE
JOHNS HOPKINS AND OTHER UNIVERSITY AUDIENCES.
BY RICHARD G. MOULTON, A.M.,
Of Cambridge University, England.

I am requested to furnish information with reference to the University
Extension Movement in England. It will be desirable that side by side with
the facts I should put the ideas of the movement, for, in matters like these,
the ideas are the inspiration of the work; the ideas, moreover, are the same
for all, whereas the detailed methods must vary with different localities.
The idea of the movement is its soul; the practical working is no more than
the body. But body and soul alike are subject to growth, and so it has been
in the present case. The English University Extension Movement was in no
sense a carefully planned scheme, put forward as a feat of institutional
symmetry; it was the product of a simple purpose pursued through many
years, amid varying external conditions, in which each modification was
suggested by circumstances and tested by experience. And with the
complexity of our operations our animating ideas have been striking deeper
and growing bolder. Speaking then up to date, I would define the root idea
of 'University Extension' in the following simple formula: University
Education for the Whole Nation organized on a basis of Itinerant Teachers.
But every clause in this defining formula will need explanation and
defence.
The term 'University' Extension has no doubt grown up from the
circumstance that the movement in England was started and directed by the

universities, which have controlled its operations by precisely the same
machinery by which they manage every other department of university
business. I do not know that this is an essential feature of the movement.
The London branch presents an example of a flourishing organization
directed by a committee formed for the purpose, though this committee at
present acts in concert with three universities. I can conceive the new type
of education managed apart from any university superintendence; only I
should look upon such severance as a far more serious evil for the
universities than for the popular movement.
But I use the term 'university education' for the further purpose of defining
the type of instruction offered. It is thus distinguished from school
education, being moulded to meet the wants of adults. It is distinguished
from the technical training necessary for the higher handicrafts or for the
learned professions. It is no doubt to the busy classes that the movement
addresses itself, but we make no secret of the fact that our education will
not help them in their business, except that, the mind not being built in
water-tight compartments, it is impossible to stimulate one set of faculties
without the stimulus reacting upon all the rest. The education that is
properly associated with universities is not to be regarded as leading up to
anything beyond, but is an end in itself, and applies to life as a whole. And
the foundation for university extension is a change, subtle but clear, that
may be seen to be coming over the attitude of the public mind to higher
education, varying in intensity in different localities, but capable of being
encouraged where it is least perceptible,—a change by which education is
ceasing to be regarded as a thing proper to particular classes of society or
particular periods of life, and is coming to be recognized as one of the
permanent interests of life, side by side with such universal interests as
religion and politics. For persons of leisure and means such growing
demand can be met by increased activity of the universities. University
Extension is to be the university of the busy.
My definition puts the hope of extending university education in this sense
to the whole nation without exception. I am aware that to some minds such
indiscriminate extension will seem like an educational communism, on a
par with benevolent schemes for redistributing the wealth of society so as to
give everybody a comfortable income all round. But it surely ought not to
be necessary to explain that in proposing a universal system of education

we are not meaning that what each individual draws from the system will be
the same in all cases. In this as in every other public benefit that which each
person draws from it must depend upon that which he brings to it.
University Extension may be conceived as a stream flowing from the high
ground of universities through the length and breadth of the country; from
this stream each individual helps himself according to his means and his
needs; one takes but a cupful, another uses a bucket, a third claims to have a
cistern to himself: every one suits his own capacity, while our duty is to see
that the stream is pure and that it is kept running.
The truth is that the wide-reaching purpose of University Extension will
seem visionary or practicable according to the conception formed of
education, as to what in education is essential and what accidental. If I am
asked whether I think of shop-assistants, porters, factory-hands, miners,
dock or agricultural laborers, women with families and constant home
duties, as classes of people who can be turned into economists, physicists,
literary critics, art connoisseurs,—I admit that I have no such idea. But I do
believe, or rather, from my experience in England I know, that all such
classes can be interested in economic, scientific, literary and artistic
questions. And I say boldly that to interest in intellectual pursuits is the
essential of education, in comparison with which all other educational
purposes must be called secondary. I do not consider that a child has been
taught to read unless he has been made to like reading; I find it difficult to
think of a man as having received a classical education if the man, however
scholarly, leaves college with no interest in classical literature such as will
lead him to go on reading for himself. In education the interest is the life. If
a system of instruction gives discipline, method, and even originating
power, without rousing a lasting love for the subject studied, the whole
process is but a mental galvanism, generating a delusive activity that ceases
when the connection between instructor and pupil is broken off. But if a
teacher makes it his first business to stir up an interest in the matter of
study, the education becomes self-continuing when teacher and pupil have
parted, and the subject becomes its own educator. If then it be conceded that
the essence of education is to interest, does it not seem a soberly practical
purpose that we should open up to the whole nation without exception an
interest in intellectual pursuits?

I take my stand on the broad moral ground that every human being, from
the highest to the lowest, has two sides to his life—his work and his leisure.
To be without work in life is selfishness and sloth. But if a man or woman is
so entangled in routine duties as never to command leisure, we have a right
to say to such persons that they are leading an immoral life. Such an
individual has no claim to the title of a working man, he is a slave. It may
be cruel circumstances that have thus absorbed him in business, but that
does not alter the fact: slavery was a misfortune rather than a fault to those
who suffered it, but in any case to be content with slavery is a crime. Once
get society to recognize the duty of leisure, and there is immediately a
scope for such institutions as University Extension that exist for the purpose
of giving intellectual interests for such leisure time. The movement is thus
one of the greatest movements for the 'raising of the masses.' With a large
section of the people there is, at the present moment, no conception of
'rising' in life, except that of rising out of one social rank into another. This
last is of course a perfectly legitimate ambition, but it is outside the present
discussion: University Extension knows nothing of social distinctions. It
has to do with a far more important mode of 'rising' in life,—that of rising
in the rank to which a man happens to belong at the moment, whether it be
the rank in which he started or any other. There is a saying that all men are
equal after dinner: and it is true that, while in the material wealth we seek in
our working hours equality is a chimera, yet in the intellectual pursuits that
belong to leisure there is no bar to the equality of all, except the difference
of individual capacity and desire. Macaulay tells of the Dutch farmers who
worked in the fields all day, and at night read the Georgics in the original.
Scotch and American universities are largely attended by students who have
had to engage in menial duties all the summer in order to gain funds for
their high education during the winter. And every University Extension
lecturer, highly trained specialist as he is, will testify how his work has
continually brought him into contact with persons of the humblest social
condition whom a moment's conversation has made him recognize as his
intellectual equals. No one has any difficulty in understanding that in
religious intercourse and experience all classes stand upon an equality; and
I have spoken of the foundation for the University Extension movement as
being the growing recognition of education as a permanent human interest
akin to religion. The experience of a few years has sufficiently

demonstrated the possibility of arousing such interest: to make it universal
is no more than a practical question of time, money and methods.
But no doubt when we come to modus operandi the main difficulty of the
movement is the diversity of the classes it seeks to approach—diversity in
individual capacity, in leisure, means, and previous training. Opposite
policies have been urged upon us. Some have said: Whatever you do, you
must never lower the standard; let the Extension movement present outside
the universities precisely the same education as the universities themselves
are giving, however long you may have to wait for its acceptance. On the
other hand, it has been urged: You must go first where you are most needed;
be content with a makeshift education until the people are ready for
something better. The movement has accepted neither of these policies, but
has made a distinction between two elements of university training—
method and curriculum. So far as method is concerned we have considered
that we are bound to be not less thorough, but more thorough, if possible,
than the universities themselves, in proportion as our clients work under
peculiar difficulties. But in the matter of curriculum we have felt it our first
duty to be elastic, and to offer little or much as may in each case be desired.
Accordingly, we have elaborated an educational unit—the three months'
course of instruction in a single subject: this unit course we have used all
the resources we could command for making as thorough in method as
possible; where more than this is desired, we arrange that more in a
combination or series of such unit courses. The instruction can thus be
taken by retail or wholesale: but in all cases it, must be administered on the
same rigorous method.
The key to the whole system is thus the unit course of three months'
instruction in a single subject. The method of such a course is conveyed by
the technical terms lecture, syllabus, exercises, class. The lectures are
addressed to audiences as miscellaneous as the congregation of a church, or
the people in a street car; and it is the duty of the teacher to attract such
miscellaneous audiences, as well as to hold and instruct them. Those who
do nothing more than simply attend the lectures will at least have gained the
education of continuous interest; it is something to have one's attention kept
upon the same subject for three months together. But it may be assumed
that in every such audience there will be a nucleus of students, by which
term we simply mean persons willing to do some work between one lecture

and another. The lectures are delivered no oftener than once a week; for the
idea is not that the lectures convey the actual instruction—great part of
which is better obtained from books, but the office of the lecture is to throw
into prominence the salient points of the study, and rouse the hearers to
read, for themselves. The course of instruction is laid down in the syllabus
—a document of perhaps thirty or forty pages, sold for a trifling sum; by
referring for details to the pages of books this pamphlet can be made to
serve as a text-book for the whole course, making the teacher independent
in his order of exposition of any other text-book. The syllabus assists the
general audience in following the lectures without the distraction of taking
notes; and guides the reading and thinking of the students during the week.
The syllabus contains a set of 'exercises' on each lecture. These exercises,
unlike examination questions or 'quizzes,' are not tests of memory, but are
intended to train the student to work for himself; they are thus to be done
under the freest conditions—at home, with full leisure, and all possible
access to books, notes or help from other persons. The written answers are
sent to the lecturer for marginal comment, and returned by him at the 'class.'
This class is a second meeting for students and others, at which no formal
lecture is given, but there is free talk on points suggested to the teacher by
the exercises he has received: the usual experience is that it is more
interesting than the lecture. This weekly routine of lecture, syllabus-reading,
exercise and class goes on for a period of twelve weeks. There is then an
'examination' in the work of the course held for students who desire to take
it. Certificates are given by the university, but it is an important
arrangement that these certificates are awarded jointly on the result of the
weekly exercises and the final examination.
The subjects treated have been determined by the demand. Literature stands
at the head in popularity, history with economy is but little behind. All the
physical sciences have been freely asked for. Art constitutes a department of
work; but it is art-appreciation, not art-production; the movement has no
function to train artists, but to make audiences and visitors to art-galleries
more intelligent. It will be observed that the great study known as 'Classics'
is not mentioned in this list. But it is an instructive fact that a considerable
number of the courses in literature have been on subjects of Greek and
Latin literature treated in English, and some of these have been at once the
most successful in numbers and the most technical in treatment. I am not

without hope that our English University Extension may react upon our
English universities, and correct the vicious conception of classical studies
which gives to the great mass of university men a more or less scholarly
hold upon ancient languages without any interest whatever in ancient
literatures.
This university extension method claims to be an advance on existing
systems partly because under no circumstances does it ever give lectures
unaccompanied by a regular plan of reading and exercises for students.
These exercises moreover are designed, not for mental drill, but for
stimulus to original work. The association of students with a general
audience is a gain to both parties. Many persons follow regularly the
instruction of the class who have not participated in the exercises.
Moreover, the students, by their connection with the popular audience, are
saved from the academic bias which is the besetting sin of teachers: more
human interest is drawn into the study. The same effect follows from the
miscellaneous character of the students who contribute exercises. High
university graduates, experts in special pursuits, deeply cultured individuals
who have never before had any field in which to exhibit the fruits of their
culture, as well as persons whose spelling and writing would pass muster
nowhere else, or casual visitors from the world of business, or young men
and women fresh from school, or even children writing in round text,—all
these classes may be represented in a single week's work; and the papers
sent in will vary in elaborateness from a scrawl on a post-card to a
magazine article or treatise. I have received an exercise of such a character
that the student considerately furnished me with an index; I remember one
longer still, but as this hailed from a lunatic asylum I will quote it only for
illustrating the diversity of the spheres reached by the movement. Study
participated in by such diverse classes cannot but have an all-roundness
which is to teachers and students one of the main attractions of the
movement.
But we shall be expected to judge our system by results: and, so far as the
unit courses are concerned, we have every reason to be satisfied. Very few
persons fail in our final examinations, and yet examiners report that the
standard in university extension is substantially the same as that in the
universities—our pass students being on a par with pass men in the
universities, our students of 'distinction' reaching the standard of honors

schools. Personally I attach high importance to results which can never be
expressed in statistics. We are in a position to assert that a successful course
perceptibly influences the tone of a locality for the period it lasts: librarians
volunteer reports of an entirely changed demand for books, and we have
even assurances that the character of conversation at 'five o'clock teas' has
undergone marked alteration. I may be permitted an anecdote illustrating
the impression made upon the universities themselves. I once heard a
brilliant university lecturer, who had had occasional experience of extension
teaching, describe a course of investigation which had interested him. With
an eye to business I asked him if he would not give it in an extension
course. He became grave. "Well, no," he replied, "I have not thought it out
sufficiently for that;" and when he saw my look of surprise he added, "You
know, anything goes down in college; but when I have to face your mature
classes I must know my ground well." I believe the impression thus
suggested is not uncommon amongst experts who really know the
movement.
Our results are much less satisfactory when we turn to the other side of our
system, and enquire as to curriculum. It must be admitted that the larger
part of our local centres can only take unit courses; there may be often a
considerable interval between one course and another; or where courses are
taken regularly the necessity of meeting popular interest involves a
distracting variety of subjects; while an appreciable portion of our energies
have to be taken up with preliminary half-courses, rather intended to
illustrate the working of the movement than as possessing any high
educational value. The most important advance from the unit course is the
Affiliation system of Cambridge university. By this a town that becomes
regularly affiliated, has arranged for it a series of unit courses, put together
upon proper sequence of educational topics, and covering some three or
four years: students satisfying the lecturers and examiners in this extended
course are recognized as 'Students affiliated' (S.A.), and can at any time
enter the university with the status of second year's men,—the local work
being accepted in place of one year's residence and study. Apart from this,
the steps in our educational ladder other than the first are still in the stage of
prophecy. But it is universally recognized that this drawback is a matter
solely of funds: once let the movement command endowment and the

localities will certainly demand the wider curriculum that the universities
are only too anxious to supply.
The third point in our definition was that the movement was to be organized
on a basis of itinerant teachers. This differentiates University Extension
from local colleges, from correspondence teaching, and from the systems of
which Chautauqua is the type. The chief function of a university is to teach,
and University Extension must stand or fall with its teachers. It may or may
not be desirable on other grounds to multiply universities; but there is no
necessity for it on grounds of popular education, the itinerancy being a
sufficient means of bringing any university into touch with the people as a
whole. And the adoption of such a system seems to be a natural step in the
evolution of universities. In the middle ages the whole body of those who
sought a liberal education were to be found crowded into the limits of
university towns, where alone were teachers to listen to and manuscripts to
copy: the population of such university centres then numbered hundreds
where to-day it numbers tens. The first university extension was the
invention of printing, which sent the books itinerating through the country,
and reduced to a fraction the actual attendance at the university, while it
vastly increased the circle of the educated. The time has now come to send
teachers to follow the books: the ideas of the university being circulated
through the country as a whole, while residence at a university is reserved
as the apex only of the university system.
An itinerancy implies central and local management, and travelling
lecturers who connect the two. The central management is a university, or
its equivalent; this is responsible for the educational side of the movement,
and negotiates for the supply of its courses of instruction at a fixed price per
course.[53] The local management may be in the hands of a committee
formed for the purpose, or of some local institution—such as a scientific or
literary club or institute—which may care to connect itself with the
universities. On the local management devolves the raising funds for the
university fee, and for local expenses, as well as the duty of putting the
advantages of the course offered before the local community. The widest
diversity of practice prevails in reference to modes of raising funds. A
considerable part of the cost will be met by the tickets of those attending the
lectures, the prices of which I have known to vary from a shilling to a
guinea for the unit course, while admission to single lectures has varied

from a penny to half a crown. But all experience goes to show that only a
part of this cost can be met in this way; individual courses may bring in a
handsome profit, but taking account over various terms and various
districts, we find that not more than two-thirds of the total cost will be
covered by ticket money. And even this is estimated on the assumption that
no more than the unit course is aimed at: while even for this the choice of
subjects, and the chance of continuity of subject from term to term are
seriously limited by the consideration of meeting cost as far as possible
from fees. University Extension is a system of higher education, and higher
education has no market value, but needs the help of endowment. But the
present age is no way behind past ages in the number of generous citizens it
exhibits as ready to help good causes. The millionaire who will take up
University Extension will leave a greater mark on the history of his country
than even the pious founder of university scholarships and chairs. And even
if individuals fail us, we have the common purse of the public or the nation
to fall back upon.
The itinerant lecturers, not less than the university and the local
management, have responsibility for the progress of the cause. An extension
lecturer must be something more than a good teacher, something more even
than an attractive lecturer: he must be imbued with the ideas of the
movement, and ever on the watch for opportunities of putting them forward.
It is only the lecturer who can maintain in audiences the feeling that they
are not simply receiving entertainment or instruction which they have paid
for, but that they are taking part in a public work, and are responsible for
giving their locality a worthy place in a national scheme of university
education. The lecturer again must mediate between the local and the
central management, always ready to assist local committees with
suggestions from the experience of other places, and equally attentive to
bringing the special wants of different centres before the university
authorities. The movement is essentially a teaching movement, and it is to
the body of teachers I look for the discovery of the further steps in the
development of popular education. For such a purpose lecturers and
directors alike must be imbued with the missionary spirit. For University
Extension is a missionary university, not content with supplying culture, but
seeking to stimulate the demand for it. This is just the point in which
education in the past has shown badly in comparison with religion or

politics. When a man is touched with religious ideas he seeks to make
converts, when he has views on political questions he agitates to make his
views prevail: culture on the other hand has been only too often cherished
as a badge of exclusiveness, instead of the very consciousness of superior
education being felt as a responsibility which could only be satisfied by
efforts to educate others. To infuse a missionary spirit into culture is not the
least purpose of University Extension.
I cannot resist the temptation to carry forward this thought from the present
into the future. In University Extension so described may we not see a germ
for the University of the Future? I have made the foundation of our
movement the growing conception of education as a permanent interest of
adult life side by side with religion and politics. The change is at best only
beginning; it tasks the imagination to conceive all it will imply when it is
complete. To me it appears that this expanding view of education is the
third of the three great waves of change the succession of which has made
up our modern history. There was a time when religion itself was identified
with a particular class, the clergy alone thinking out what the rest of the
nation simply accepted; then came the series of revolutions popularly
summed up as the Reformation, by which the whole adult nation claimed to
think for itself in matters of religion, and the special profession of the clergy
became no more than a single element in the religious life of the nation.
Again, there has been in the past a distinct governing class, to which the
rest of society submitted; until a series of political revolutions lifted the
whole adult population into self-government, using the services of political
experts, but making public progress the interest of all. Before the more
quiet changes of the present age the conception of an isolated learned class
is giving way before the ideal of a national culture, in which universities
will still be centres for educational experts, while University Extension
offers liberal education to all, until educationally the whole adult population
will be just as much within the university as politically the adult population
is within the constitution. It would appear then that the university of such a
future would be by no means a repetition of existing types, such as Oxford
or Cambridge, Harvard or Johns Hopkins. These institutions would exist
and be more flourishing than ever, but they would all be merged in a wider
'University of England,' or 'University of America'; and, just as the state
means the whole nation acting in its political capacity through municipal or

national institutions, so the university would mean the whole adult nation
acting in its educational capacity through whatever institutions might be
found desirable. Such a university would never be chartered; no building
could ever house it; no royal personage or president of the United States
would ever be asked to inaugurate it; the very attempt to found it would
imply misconception of its essential character. It would be no more than a
floating aggregation of voluntary associations; like the companies of which
a nation's commerce is made up such associations would not be organized,
but would simply tend to coöperate because of their common object. Each
association would have its local and its central side, formed for the purpose
of mediating between the wants of a locality and the educational supply
offered by universities or similar central institutions. No doubt such a
scheme is widely different from the ideal education of European countries,
so highly organized from above that the minister of education can look at
his watch and know at any moment all that is being done throughout the
country. On the contrary the genius of the Anglo-Saxon race leans towards
self-help; it has been the mission of the race in the past to develop self-
government in religion and politics, it remains to crown this work with the
application of the voluntary system to liberal education.
In indulging this piece of speculation I have had a practical purpose before
me. If what I have described be a reasonable forecast for the University of
the Future, does it not follow that University Extension, as the germ of it,
presents a field for the very highest academic ambition? To my mind it
appears that existing types of university have reached a point where further
development in the same direction would mean decline. In English
universities the ideal is 'scholarship.' Scholarship is a good thing, and we
produce it. But the system which turns out a few good scholars every year
passes over the heads of the great mass of university students without
having awakened them to any intellectual life; the universities are
scholarship-factories producing good articles but with a terrible waste of
raw material. The other main type of university enthrones 'research' as its
summum bonum. Possibly research is as good a purpose as a man can set
before him, but it is not the sole aim in life. And when one contemplates the
band of recruits added each year to the army of investigators, and the choice
of ever minuter fields—not to say lanes and alleys—of research, one is led
to doubt whether research is not one of the disintegrating forces of society,

and whether ever increasing specialisation must not mean a perpetual
narrowing of human sympathies in the intellectual leaders of mankind. Both
types of university appear to me to present the phenomena of a country
suffering from the effects of overproduction, where the energies of workers
had been concentrated upon adding to the sum of wealth, and all too little
attention had been given to the distribution of that wealth through the
different ranks of the community. Just at this point the University Extension
movement appears to recall academic energy from production to
distribution; suggesting that devotion to physics, economics, art, can be just
as truly shown by raising new classes of the people to an interest in physical
and economic and aesthetic pursuits, as by adding to the discoveries of
science, or increasing the mass of art products. To the young graduate,
conscious that he has fairly mastered the teaching of the past, and that he
has within him powers to make advances, I would suggest the question
whether, even for the highest powers, there is any worthier field than to
work through University Extension towards the University of the Future.
FOOTNOTES:
[53]
The Cambridge fee is £45 per course of three months.

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