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In 1935, Bowman became president of Johns Hopkins University. "Bow" streamlined the administration, erased the deficit, added top scholars to its faculty. Impressed by his ability as an administrator, Robert Hutchins wrote him: "I once used to think of you as a major prophet. Now, I am inclined to think...
Home of Research. Johns Hopkins, which is about the same age as Bowman, has known prophets before. It was one of the first U.S. universities to emphasize graduate research. Harvard's crusty President Charles W. Eliot had to admit that his own graduate school, "started feebly in 1870, did...
Isaiah Bowman kept Johns Hopkins' undergraduate program-two years of general education, then two years of study in one of foUr special "groups" (physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, the humanities). For him, every educated man had a private contract with society: "To respect that contract is to be...
Thirty-year-old Don Fegenbush is one of the oldest "blue babies" known to medicine. Blue babies rarely live beyond twelve unless an operation corrects a congenital defect: a too-small opening in the pulmonary artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. One day last week Don...
¶The University of Maryland, which quietly admitted its first Negro to the law school 13 years ago, and has already graduated four, now has 23 Negro law students. Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, a private school under no legal compulsion to admit Negroes, has also admitted "a few" Negroes...