Show I I J l A Ie u ft t tl II III I J JIn in int InI InH t I 10 H In m InI I II 1 HI Is V H HIP P ild I I w J DR DANIEL GILMAN PRESIDENT dl Ill OF THE CARNEG IE INSTITUTION r C Is no denying the fact that the United States has en In trod upon the last and high highest est 1st or or Intellectual ut UH ItH development Its physical resources hn been exploited developed with unprecedented on a n novel never before known In III the world history Its commerce reached out to tu the uttermost parts of af the th earth There Is III now a n of at development by hy which America turns turn and applies the Inere Increment ment of or UN natural resources to the tho cultivation o Intellect If It as the tho poet said long ago lillo the tho proper study of oC mankind Is 0 likewise It has hit telly been recognized that the greatest product of lit the thc centuries Is III num To 10 product cl the highest type t IMO of ut mankind Is the tho endeavor of our educators today and It II la Is to tho everlasting credit nf lIt our race raco that when such auch appears he hela heIs la Is given rIven universal acclaim FrOm the tho present Intellectual recep receptivity tIlty of or tho world In general optimistic philosophers that tho Iho time Is IN ripe or nearly so for Cor the appearance of at the consummate flower of our OUI civi ehl civilization In the person persall of ot some one ane In Individual who wha shall Hhall surpass every Itry other of ot hi his kind To 10 this end all 1111 our edu educators have been lI on laboring In the past and there Is III probably no one man who has lIas done moro maIo to 10 bring about the de do desired sired result than Dr Daniel l Colt Oil Oilman man president elect of ot the projected Institution In reviewing what he has hall dons done for tor the advancement of his hili fellow men Dr Oil Oilman man of af course be bo considered ly I himself apart no one would more freely than he acknowledge the debt he owes to society and to the Influences among which hi III was IM born No Nu man stands for tor lr alone Iso 10 Isolate late lato Independent In himself he represents conditions and environment In short th till status of the civilisation of ot his hll time Ho So It Il would eem In u II measure Invidious to write of this groat educator without referring to till the form Corm formative Influences that affected his ca en career reer the men who made hIli ils great achievements possible loll MOIl Moct prominent imminent among the first named were wert Or Dr ancestry and the III Ions ilonA ot of tho IIII section cllon In which he pawed hili ils youth He Is from Coun COUll Councilor John Oilman of Exeter N H 11 nn of or birth who came cameo 10 o America A In 1638 He III was Willi born July 6 1831 preparatory studies In Inthe he the city of New York and entered Yale college ollege tram from which he wan Willi graduated I In n 1853 The three years were to study and R travel el In Europe where for awhile he III was 81 attached to the United States legation ut lit St Mt Peters burg and later Inter was n II commissioner to 10 he French of ot ISS 1865 In III Which year ear ho ilo returned to In America nc ac n a position as all librarian nt at Yale Det ISIS and 1871 he hI professor or f physical political geography nt al hili IH alma allna mater of at the eld Scientific school u IL tru IN of uC the observatory ob orator a It visitor of DC the theale Yale ale School of or Fine 1 Arts for a 1 short lime Ime of schools In New BW Haven and secretary ef ot the th state tute oard of ot education In 1872 Dr Oilman cro tl l the nent und and became president of at the rs It of ot California There he hI first that luH ran breadth of or vl I w In III the best university methods and nd absolute genius In ability mt mode him celebrated Dr Oilman tad be n called to 10 California In 1870 anI nd n nil the president of or the lIao great satisfaction to 10 Its 1111 anti and added strength to Iu the I He founded several eral pro their endowment by b wealthy assisted In III securing the observatory and early that of business bu II men was all subsequently of ot such Ruch vast to th cau of Hut U It Is III on account of Ills grunt RI t work In connection with the Johns Hopkins university a 11 work In III which his hili genius Will was displayed during a 1 quarter century ry Iy ho IH IN best bl t known knowlI This university sity one of ar the latest to be bl founded In Inthe 11 the States but which has be become come a 11 glum almost in III Infancy owed Its Inception ta 10 the man whose hoM name It bears bellr Johns Johnl Hopkins a I of ot good old Quaker stock who In III 1867 1861 associated n I Ill twelve prominent citizens with him as ns trustees tru In the Incorporation lion tion of an Institution of or learning to 10 which he hI pledged his fortune Nothing was done dOlle toward luward the tho f out of his hl n until after tho death of at Mr III Hopkins which occurred In III December ma After ACle providing for Cor all his near rela Iala this eminent philanthropist who deserves to rank with George P others of ut his hili kind gave 1101 by will to 10 tho Iho two which now bear bellI his hili name tho Johns Hopkins university the Johns Hopkins orty valued nt that time at Included In 1 the tho Rift to the university MII the Hopkins estate nt at Clifton a suburb of at This consists of aC 30 ru of land and was In tended by II him as al till the site HItO of lit the future tutUle university He left the trustees Iho absolutely unhampered however and they linter later established the university In III de ill detached buildings In tho Iho heart of Haiti more which tact fact hut bus probably operated adversely to 10 tilt the coherence of oC the Institution and the preservation Ire of oC traditions h are so o dear to all rolle flans glans Vast VaRt as all was WIlM the scheme of education resulting re In III one of ot Americas foremost universities H It wan u broadly outlined tl In III President Inaugural delivered In Baltimore years y ago 1111 In tilt the place lif Maid What arc ar we aiming at lit An All enduring foundation n slow II ow do un local their regional then Ihen national Influence the mot most literal promotion of oC nil All useful knowledge IIII he special provision of such departments as aH are lirt elsewhere neglected In the conn coun try 1 a u with all other avoiding Interference and engaging In III no nil rivalry tin encourage encouragement ment of oC and the Ih advancement lor of Individual scholar who by their ex excellence will advance the Ihl sciences they th pursue anti and the th society In which thy they dwell What will b be our agencies A larK staff of ur abundance of at Instruments apparatus diagrams books and other m ans of ot and Ind InK mn all 11 w n tho Influences neM coming from and Washington funds so 10 unrestricted charter no 80 fm chem M so elastic that as the world gue forward our plans will he te adjusted to tu Us new lIew require requirements ments What will bu be our method Liberal advanced 1 Instruction for forI how I who want It distinctive honors for tor those who win Ilium appointed cour M for tor who thin them special cial elul courses for tor tho who ho ran All take IRk no other a 11 combination of at lecture I el u 8 laboratory practice field work and private Instruction the largest lar t dis discretion crellon allowed to the faculty ent With the purposes In view If and finally nall on an appeal to the community to Increase our mean me n to strengthen our hands hand to supplement our and especially OI cl lly to surround our scholars chola with thon thUM social domestic and nil t Ious Influences which n corporation I can Iun ut best 1111 I provide but l tl which may bo III abundantly 1111 a II II enjoyed 1 In III lh homes the Ih churches and the 1111 UJ vate associations of oC un an enlightened 1 1 city ell y V What Dr 1 r Oilman accomplished dur duro r rIng Ing his long presidency was aN shown i I Johns c 1110 Io n Its anniversary at nt j t which the notable feature of ut the tha occa Dion was the attention paid Its lis then president emeritus by b tho assembled of oC ull the great froat colleges of ot li lithe I f tilt the land liy ut at least leu t live of those col 1 leges he hUll hns been b tn honored 1 with the tha de degree derro gree of or LL 11 D and his hiI renown has hus ex extended tended around thu Ihl world M iii And Is hI the man already j J fill ful us liS thu tho first president of two great m universities Johns Hopkins and Call il dl who has been selected by b the of the Iho recently projected Cur I Kle Institution as Its itA president This Institution Is to 10 ho he established nt lit tuo u the where It Is In t l tended that It filial shull cooperate with all 1111 t I I other lither I II tit II of at learning and be a 11 til sort Mort of ur advanced or 01 postgraduate bu hu huor or lly carrying on work along the tho B g linos projected by II President Oilman many years n 1110 o With at lit their command to 10 be he used absolutely as II they may elect tho Iho trinities of thU lot ut f Ht of oC American colleges will have the opportunity for tor unlimited effort In the direction not only of the higher r hut but of ut the IIII highest education In his hI address conveying the deed of Rift girl Mr Ir Ale said Gentlemen your work be Ja your OUr alms are high you fk to extend known forces and to and utilize new forces for the benefit tit I th a man Than this there can scarcely lw n greater work I wish you abundant and 1111 venture to ssi through your In III I with those of or kindred societies In hi our B 1 country I r our contributions to III thu tho lid I In of ut the race 1101 through r lUrch II will compare In the near future not nol un unfavorably ut favorably with of any allY other v land 1 II President Oilman has hal filled On position Is III already uly well known one of ot the mail onerous tl being that of tit United I State c II oller on Oil the boundary line 1111 between u hie and He lie haM h n h been commissioner of ot awards at t till the Atlanta n of ot 1195 president of ut th Slater for fm the education of the freedmen and a trustee of at the Peabody hi educational fund of ot jj Jd the th geological survey of Maryland dl III co cc of ot the Johns hospital ton n and president of lit the tI National Civil Service Ht league As A H It p ak r rhu hu ht Is III forceful and elegant and av an lin r author Athor he h Is IR well 1 known by hy his hi CM I I of ot Jame J me r ILY ti lems ana anu Lire or fir James Jam D Vann At t an age when moat t m n are aro neck HII Ing relaxation Dr nr Oilman accepts a 1 trust 10 o vant that thal the mind of oC ordinal III man can IlIn scarcely I grasp It d hut Ki fiJi which hla hi rapacity for great enter will send nl forward to toward toward ward a In ij It linked In the minds of at generations rallon will be bt the names of ot Johns John n 1 Hopkins the Quaker Daniel Colt Oil i 1 mill man the New anti ami Andrew Andre CarnlI th lit com l efforts wire were direct lIr toward rait ing III American educational to 10 th plane Their fame will r at as the yeans toll roll by b T 11 HOOlan P 1 ry ryr r p |