JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

institution founded in 1876, at Baltimore, Md., by Johns Hopkins, who bequeathed it $3,500,000. Because of its educational facilities and ths celebrity of its profe ors, it rose rapidly to the rank of one Gf the foremost institutions of learning in the United States. In 1902, a tract of 176 acres in the suburbs of Baltimore was presented to the University as a new site, and by the summer of 1916 all departments of the University had been transferred to this new location. The curriculum is very broad, embracing dejartments of science, physics, engineer-, arts and letters, philosophy, and medicine. The university offers facilities for post-graduate courses, elective courses, and also encourages the study at the institution of students who may only be able to spend there a limited time. There are evening courses also in busine economics and engineering, and summer schools have been conducted since 1911. There is a university pre which i ues mathematical, philological, historical, political, science, electrical, and other periodicals. A marked addition was made to its medical facilities when the school of hygiene and public health established by the Rockefeller Foundation was opened, in 1917. The medical school is generally recognized as the greatest of its kind in the United States, and perhaps, in the world. The grounds and buildings are valued at $3,360,000. There are 200,000 volumes in the library. A considerable number of fellowships and scholarships have been established for the encouragement of ‘students. In 1923, the endowment of the institution was $11,000,000; the enrollment of students was 3,200, and there were 400 members of the faculty.