The Washington herald., 1908-07-19

Organizer CT the councry's two greatest
institutions devoted exclusively TO post
graduate study and research and practi-
caIly a founder Of a great State uni
versity. Dr. Gjlman's IS beyond ques-
ton a unique record in the educational
history Of the country
Was Head OF Johns Hopkins.
HIS educational record is unique also in
another important respect Old followers
Of education in this country may recall
the astonishment that was closely akin
to horror which the entire educational
world showed in the T0's. when. as
president Of Johns Hopkins. DIT. Gilman
began to revoluuonize the widespread
college educational methods that had
come to Us from colonial days He saw
to il that his professors were worthy.
in part. at least, Of their hiTe-and so
speedily secured the call on the country 5
best teaching talent He admitted thirty
students without collecting cent in
fees from them. and. starting with ten,
he finally actually paid twenty students
$500 year each for pursuing Work al
the university He did not consider the
possession OF a gray beard a qualiics-
ton to instruct. and 50 filed his faculty
with young men To-day these and other
OF DR.. Gilman's innovations are consid-
cred bedrock essentials Of higher educa-
tion in America
Though Dr. Gilman was an active col
Iege president long before the advent OF
the new style, business president OF to
day. probably none OF the latter class
has a better business reputation There
came a time in his career as president OF
Johns Hopkins when the securities back
Of il. began TO depreciate alarmingly- The
man who tackled the serious financial
problem that strait ightway followed was
Daniel Colt Gilman II was Daniel Cot
Gilman who brought the university safe
" through the dry years. and II was
he who as an educator saw 10 II that
neither the classroom work nor the repu-
tation Of the university fell below par
during the period OF financial stress.
Though ne is well on his way TO four
score years. Dr. Gilman IS one Of the
I hardest-working administrators Of philan-
| thropic trusts that We have to-day He
/ believes that no man called TO such work
/ should be content 10 take a passive in
terest in il He insists on activity, fol
himself at least. and so. because he is or
/ FIVE Of the country's greatest philanthropiC
[ trusts. he is kept about as busy to-day as
/ the average man Of half his age likes to
/ be busy In addition 70 these trusts. aS
/ president emeritus DR.. Gilman keeps Z
# y
/ once IN a while some magazine viii have
I an authoritative article on education from
| his pen And. oh. yes; Dr. Gilman has
i found tine 70 make himself one of tbs
( leading authorities on the Monroe doc
/ trine. This little by-worS Of his once wor
/ him a place on Cleveland's famous Ven
/ ezuelan boundary dispute commission
I Taken by and large, 10 a laynan Il ap-
pears that Dr. Gilman has accomplished
I enough big things in the past for HI:
/ cOuntry's good TO make noteworthy repu-
tatiOns for a half dozen men at least
And yet he is still ar it-snd as modestly
! as ever.
Carroll %. Wright.
/ Carroll D. Wright. who. as chairman Of
the executive committee Of tho Carnesit
Institution. has DR. Gilman for one OF
his associates. enjoys the distinction OF
being the country's greatest and fairest
living 'fEgerer." It was he who, through
his intimate knowledge Of statistics and
the ways OF statisticisns, coined the IA.
nous and often misQuoted catch phrase
| Figures do not lie, but liars figure