The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-14
JOHNS HOPKIES'S AMBITION
TNITERSITT STARTS PLIN TO
RSTSE Ss.OaO.O mo.
SSna y. ReekefsiieF Mas Proalsea o9S0.-
40 q 0SS0. 600 Nero o. RAISED. Aaa
Trustees Prspsss % Add o. AaSther
Nnllsa Ter Bltgher Eaneatlsa aeheme.

woo q Bseo.ooD Nofe ts 1Aaaeo. and
Trustees PrSPsse 70 Add oa AsSSher
atllSa Ter sttgher Ed1catlSa acheune
BALTIsoEE. April is-JOhns Hopkins
University proposes 90 take an advanced
stop in aiding higher education.
According TO . statement given oa'
to-day u ~ planned 60 raise fund Of
g. OO0 On and the trustees. faculty and
alumni have orGAnised . committee Il
endowment eKteosiOo To collect the re-
CURED amount
The fund - 20 ~ us-d 20 remove the
university from it, present location on
Howard street To the nsw grounds a.
HOmewoDd and Ia ,ncr~A~s q ~ endowment
80 As In meet tbs additional @Ap~nsss
which this move will entail.
OF this amount $50 90 has already bsso
offered by the General Education Board
frosn the income Of thu John ID. Rocke-
feller Foundation Tor Higher Education. 70
an additional sum % not sss than $50 0oo
u raised by December ~. 1910
The COMMITTEES has undertaken ~ raise
the money to meet these conditons and to
raise the further sum % 81 On. 900.
The university authorities have bad
under consideration for some time several
lines q proposed eEtension. IL has been
desired 20 establish departments Of
seientiGc study and research IN prac-
tically newer fields and 10 enlarge the
work % thoee departments which are
already established.
The following statement explains what
10 - proposed To accomplish:
a school II b. gbsr engineering 10 10 be
established. Here graduates Of tsca-
meal schools and pra ctising engineers.
may come and take up The research work
Uhich - % needed IN the technical Lines.
his Institution would tear tue same
relation 10 the existing ,echnical schools
that a university bears % . college. The
developDsat % technical instruction has
not kept pace with the marvellous growth
% the country
The large manufacturers &C the
country spend millions 81 dollars IA deVel-
oplng n@w process OF Sofk, but have
spent little IN the developing % men.
The university - particularly well ADAPTED
to the Inauguration % such WORK.
There viii arise body o. trained
scientists and workers IN research from
which the manufacturing interests OF ne
country wil freely draw The stand
ard u scholarship will be on par vito
that u the medical school. and this wili
bs only one more field in which Hopkins
will take the lead.
There is need for the e~tsblishmsnt Of
furnish instruction in the higher branches
OF tho Law and opportunity for scientific
reeaa rch historical. comparative and
critical There IL at pre>snt no such
institution IN the country. all the Law
schools bsing wholly vocational or profess
"A d@partm~ut Of preventive medi-
cine ~ also PLANNED a. an adjunct % the
medical -chool More and nore attsn-
ton v bsing given 70 the public health.
Tbs need % properly trained men and
uon.n 20 carry on the Sork q preyen-
tunity waiting 90 - taken advantage %.
a. the m-dicai school u exceptionally
we'll qualified "a dirsct and participate
IN such work.
That the matter j. mOrc and more
engaging the public attention = shown
by many r-c~nt suggestions that there
- established -erretary~hip 81 the
public health IN the Cabinet ~ Pre-ident
Taft
Then a training school for teachers
- 20 be established u was formerly held
that no particular training Vas necessary
for teachers in the lower grades Of the
ptIblie achOOls Bat to-day ideAa have
changed. People are beginning 60 realize
that the edOcat aonal training q boys and
girls must be PLAced IN the most com
petent hands The teachers must have
carefully prepared themselves for their
work and must he familiar with the ara
Of teaching. for such 10 .!Ily 10
Johns Hopkins has turned out pre-
eminent teachers IN the fields % higher
~chOlA rship and - we'll ada pied Co under
take the establishment % a training
school for tsach~rs where a hugh standard
~ efficiency will b. maintained
While the university - doing what IL
can - AID teachers % the public schools
in their efforts 10 increase their efficiency.
Il could do much more n the necessary
funds we're available
a properly -,guipped school for teach
ers would h. - great service. especially
To the South
Another phase % the university's
activity upon which the move 20 Home .
wood will have a particular bearing -
- collegiate department. IL - pre-
iictsd that the collegiate department
after - removal 10 HOmswOod will /
appeal to many Young men who now turn I
IN the other colleges On account e the .
more IL scinAting undergraduate life exist /
nS there.
a sp.--ial endowment for the college /
. one ~ the Ia rticulRr aitns VI the com !
nittss Her, will be firmly established .
college 20 a some~hs' distinct type
"a which without neGiectinE athl-sic and
,oCta' interests the sitbOrdinati1n uf
hes- foru1- of activity 10 the intelteciUal b
-uds for which institutions 10 learning
.xis' shalt b~ r-coKni1ed
Alumni throughout the country have
Jeen asked tO assist IN the work and the
IredictiOn 10 made that the satire amount