Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-29
PLAN IS VAST ONE
Johns Hopkins University Pro-
poses to Raise Sum of
100000.
TO AID HIGHER EDUCATION
Rockefeller Offers $3.50, 900 if $3.50,
900 More Is Secured-Trustees
Out for Balance.

Steps to develop what will probably
be the greatest institution Of higher
education in the United states were
taken the other day when. by the ac-
ton of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller and
the trustees. faculty and alumni OF
Johns Hopkins university. at Balti-
more, a committee was organized to
raise 100000 and add schools Of
law. teaching. engineering and proven
tive medicine to Johns Hopkins.
These four schools will be OF the same
high level as the Johns Hopkins uni
versity and medical school. The six
big institutions in one will be moved
to large estate at Homewood. just
outside of Baltimore.
A committee on endowment and ex-
tension has been named to rlise the
So, 100000. OF this amount $25O,OOO
has already been offered by the gen
eral education board from the income
Of the John D. Rockefeller foundation
for higher education If an additional
sum of not less than $750,O00 is raised
by Dec. 81, 1910. The committee has
undertaken to raise the money to meet
these conditions and to raise the fur
Their sum Of $1,OOOooO.
The university authorities have had
under consideration for some time sew
eral lines of proposed extension. 1t
has been desired to esta blish depart
ments Of scientific study and research
in practically newer fields and to en-
large the work of these departments
which are already established.
Outline of the Plan.
An official statement issued by the
university authorities outlines the
plans as follows
"a school of higher engineering is to
be established. Here graduates Of
technical schools and practicing en-
gineers may come and take up the re-
search work which is so needed in the
technical lines. There will arise a
body of trained scientists and workers
in research from which the manufac-
turing interests of the country will
freely draw.
There is need for the establishment
of a school of Jurisprudence which
will furnish instruction in the higher
branches of the law and opportunity
for scientific research-historical, COM
PdAo anu NAAIA(s1l mere Ii dl
present no such institution in the Unit
ed States, sal the law schools being
wholly vocational or professional in
character.
"a department of preventive medi-
cine is also planned as an adjunct of
the medical school. More and more
attention is being given to the public
health. The need Of properly trained
men and women to carry on the work
of prevention is urgent That the mat
ter is more and more engaging the
public attention is shown by many
recent suggestions that there be es-
tablished a secretaryship of the pub
lie health in President Taft's cabinet
Great Teachers School.
'Then training school for teachers
is to be established 1t was formerly
held that no particular training was
necessary for. teachers In the lower
grades of the public schools, but to-
day ideas have changed. People are
beginning to realize that the educa-
ttonal training of boys and girls must
be placed in the most competent hands.
Another phase of the university's
activity upon which the move to
Homewood will have particular bear
ing is its collegiate department. This
department will increase quickly with
the erection Of dormitories and closer
association of the men in a quiet re-
treat like Homewood, where all the In
struments Of student activities are at
hand. The group system Of under
graduate studies, which has been used
at Johns Hopkins from the start, is
being rapidly adopted by other col
Ieges.
with the strong incentive to work
which comes from surroundings OF
great intellectual activity such as exist
I'm the university it is predicted that
the collegiate department after its re-
moval to Homewood will appeal to
many young men who now turn to the
other colleges on account Of the more
fascinating undergraduate life exist
ing there. A special endowment for
the college is one of the particular
aims OF the committee. Here will be
firmly established a college Of a some
what distinct type. in which without
neglecting athletic and social interests
the subordination of these forms of
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which institutions Of learning exist
will be recognized"
One Of the largest athletic fields in
the country is planned, and botanical
gardens will be laid out.
Alumni throughout the United States
have been asked to assist In the work,
and the prediction is made that the
entire amount will be in hand by the
close Of the year.
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