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Sixty years ago, when the revolutionary ideas of Lister and Pasteur were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...
...with academic glee point out the weaknesses of phrasing. Yet, considering the value of the almanac for of the colonists, one must deafen himself to the cries of the literary know-alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable...
...years after he took his Yale degree in 1852, Daniel Coit Gilman seemed to his friends a young man of great promise who was floundering lamentably in his choice of a lifework. He was building better than they knew. All the time he was wandering over Europe, planning Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, teaching geography there, serving on New Haven's Board of Education, he was observing and thinking about Education. When he was called from a brief term as president of the University of California to create Johns Hopkins, his ideas were ripe...
First president of Johns Hopkins university was a geographer. His name was Daniel Coit Oilman and during his 25-year term he made Johns Hopkins' graduate departments a yardstick for every university in the land. Last week Johns Hopkins' trustees elected a fifth president. He, too, is a geographer, His name is Isaiah Bowman...
Contrary to popular impression, money for the Coit Tower was left not for a personal memorial but to the city Art Commission "to expend the same in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...