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The situation has also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned...
Baltimore's research-minded Johns Hopkins University has a reputation that far outstrips its size (1,764 undergraduates, 2,038 grad students). Its fame lured Milton Eisenhower-former head of Kansas State and Penn State and adviser to four U.S. Presidents-to its presidency in 1956. Last week Johns...
Founded with a $7,000,000 gift from Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Magnate Johns Hopkins in 1876, the university pioneered graduate education in the U.S. Its School of Medicine blazed trails in public health, bacteriology and epidemiology, fashioned the modern clinical training of doctors. By the 1920s, however, the founding funds...
True Community. Under Eisenhower, Johns Hopkins has again caught up with its reputation for excellence. One index is its enrollment of 850 postdoctoral students-the largest, for its size, of any U.S. university. It is also a collegiate democracy: the twelve-man Academic Council, elected by the faculty, has a...
William Rainev Harper assumed office as the U of C's first president in 1891 at the age of 35. He had received his Ph.D. from Yale at the age of 19, and later had held two full professorships simultancously. These he sacrificed for the opportunity to create a new...