Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-14

field Scientific School. Two other posi-
tons he held before leaving New Haven
were those Of superintendent of public
schools and secretary to the state board
of education.
For fifteen years DR.. Gilman served in
different educational capacities in New
Haven. In 1870 he received his first call
to go to California as president of the
university of that state. He was to be
it's first president. DIR. Gilman at first
ring his work at Yale. but two years later
the invitation was renewed. the trustees
of the University of California having
made up their minds that he was the man
went to California. where he remained
but three years.
President of Hopkins.
1t was on December 80, 1874. that the
trustees of the Johns Hopkins University
met and elected DR.. Gilman as the first
president of that institution and he en-
tered upon the duties Of his office the fol-
lowing year. At the request of the trus-
tees. DR.. Gilman the following summer
took a trip abroad, where he conferred
with the leaders of university education
IN Great Britain and on the continent.
The winter of 1870 was devoted to the
formulating of the plans of the univer-
sity. and these were made public by DR..
Gilman in his inaugural address, when he
gave utterance to these prophetic words:
An enduring foundations; slow de-
velopment; first local, then regional. then
national influence; the most liberal pro-
motion of all useful knowledge: the spa-
cial provision of such departments as are
elsewhere neglected in the country; a
generous affiliation with all other institu-
tons. avoiding interferences and engaging
in no rivalry; the encouragement of re-
search; the promotion OF young men and
the advancement of individual scholars,
who by their excellence will advance the
sciences they pursue and the society
where they dwell
Idea of a University.
DR.. Gilman also defined his idea of a
university in the same address when he
said: "A university is place for the adj
vanced special education of youth who
have been prepared for it's freedom by the
discipline of a lower school," This the
Johns Hopkins became when 1t opened its
doors to students, with DIR. Gilman presi-
dent, on October 3, 1876, and through an
exceptionally distinguished career of a
quarter of century, in which it has taken
rank with universities centuries older. it
has remained true to DR.. Gilman's divina-
ton.
Al the very outset of his administra ton
as president of the university DR.. Gilman
demonstrated the qualities which enabled
him to accomplish so much for the institu-
ton and to build it step by step until it
reached pinnacle where its fame became
known throughout the civilized world. His
wonderful faculty for gathering about
him men of brains and of genius to aid
him in the work of making the institution
the great one its founder hoped it would
be was, perhaps, the chief factor in his
success.
In Social and Civic Affairs.
During the long period he was president
of the university DR.. Gilman took a con-
spcuous and prominent part in the social
and civic affairs of Baltimore. His in
terest in Maryland and Baltimore was al
ways keen and every righteous civic
movement found him in the forefront
How he found the time to take part in
the things he did was the wonder of his
friends. but up to the time he severed his