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Even Harvard. If it does, the Hopkins will be living up to its old role as a solid innovator in U.S. education. Founded with money left by the Baltimore railroad tycoon, Johns Hopkins, it aimed from the first to concentrate on graduate studies and research. .In so doing, it marked...
Under Daniel Coit Oilman, Hopkins' first president (1876-1901), the university grew mightily. Lord Kelvin, Lord Bryce and William James were among its distinguished lecturers, Woodrow Wilson and Philosopher Josiah Royce among those who worked for its Ph.D. The medical school, with its famous four-Sir William Osier, William...
In later years Johns Hopkins continued to grow (present enrollment: 2,680), but it lost its commanding lead. Since 1949, when he became its sixth president, dynamic Detlev Bronk has been re-examining the scheme of Hopkins education.
"This Is the Problem." Under the Bronk Plan, Johns Hopkins will go after the ablest students it can find. (Part of the $75-$100 million Bronk wants will go for broadened scholarship aid to attract them.) Unlike the University of Chicago, which also lets students go as fast as they...
Died. Lewis Herold Brown, 57, onetime Iowa farm boy who worked his way through the State University of Iowa, was an infantry captain in World War I, began his postwar career as a $15-a-week salesman, rose in eight years to assistant manager of all Montgomery Ward plants. At...