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The Story.* It was after spending a molten July day on his slanting cellar door, contemplating pipe-smoke, hollyhocks and a vista of the Marvellous Vale, that Dr. Higbie Chaffinch, 64, professor of the Latin language and literature at Johns Hopkins University and for some weeks a widower, journeyed to...
Died. Dr. John Howland, 53, head pediatrician of Johns Hopkins; at London, following operation.
This week its President, George E. Vincent, preparing to print his 1925 report, briefs the Foundation's activities: 1) Hookworm-aided 18 governments, treated nearly 1,500,000 victims, erected or rebuilt thousands of latrines. 2) Rural health-aided 220 U. S. counties, 18 districts in Brazil, Poland, Czechoslovakia...
Elevation of Standards. Nor had administrators been idle. It had been a year notable for efforts to elevate academic standards. Chief of these efforts, of course, was that of President Frank J. Goodnow of Johns Hopkins, who had brought his university back to its original purpose of dispensing "higher" education...
Research. The action at Johns Hopkins was also expressive of a renewed emphasis that came during the year upon the university as an institution for research as well as teaching. Many college presidents had joined with many financiers and U. S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover to establish a National Research...